Ghost 9 or Ghost 2003

[Clive]

I have discovered a Ghost 9 when going through lot's of CD's (having a clear
out).

Am I right in saying that this has Ghost 9 and 2003 on same CD and if so
what are the differences.

Finally can I use either of the above on XP Pro Fully patched/updated to
move system to a new HDD?

Thanks in advance

Clive

 

[Irwin]

They are completely different. 2003 runs in DOS, 9 runs in windows.
2003 is very solid, when I used 9 it was kinda buggy. 2003 recovers in
dos, 9 recovers in a CD based recovery environment. They come on
separate CDs. You can use many tools to move you system to a new hard
drive. If you are buying a new hard drive, you can use the software
that comes with the disk, ghost, drive image, lots of things.

 

[Rod Speed]

I have discovered a Ghost 9 when going through lot's of CD's (having a clear
out).

Am I right in saying that this has Ghost 9 and 2003 on same CD
Yep.

and if so what are the differences.

Ghost 9 is the latest and is pretty bad capability wise.
It can only run on the NT/2K/XP family, not the Win9x family.
Thats why Ghost 2003 is included, for those dinosaurs.

Ghost 9 has some extra capabilitys, it can do most stuff
at the XP level, doesnt need to boot to dos and does
incremental images. Pretty buggy tho, I prefer True Image.

Finally can I use either of the above on XP Pro Fully patched/updated to move
system to a new HDD?

Yes you can use 2003 if you are careful. Safest to do it
after booting the CD and its absolutely crucial to not let
XP see the original HDD when booting from the clone for
the first boot after the clone has been done. Just unplug
the original HDD, boot XP from the clone. Once its been
allowed to do another boot after it has claimed to have
found new hardware, you can connect the original drive
again and reformat it for data etc if you want.

In theory Ghost 9 can clone a hard drive, but you cant
do it from the booted CD, you can only do it from the
installed Ghost and its one hell of a mess with drive
letters and failed to clone one partition when I tried it.

 

[Clive]

Ghost 9 is the latest and is pretty bad capability wise.
It can only run on the NT/2K/XP family, not the Win9x family.
Thats why Ghost 2003 is included, for those dinosaurs.

Ghost 9 has some extra capabilitys, it can do most stuff
at the XP level, doesnt need to boot to dos and does
incremental images. Pretty buggy tho, I prefer True Image.


Yes you can use 2003 if you are careful. Safest to do it
after booting the CD and its absolutely crucial to not let
XP see the original HDD when booting from the clone for
the first boot after the clone has been done. Just unplug
the original HDD, boot XP from the clone. Once its been
allowed to do another boot after it has claimed to have
found new hardware, you can connect the original drive
again and reformat it for data etc if you want.

In theory Ghost 9 can clone a hard drive, but you cant
do it from the booted CD, you can only do it from the
installed Ghost and its one hell of a mess with drive
letters and failed to clone one partition when I tried it.

Thanks - trying True Image 9 at the moment

Clive

 

[Irwin]

In my retail version of ghost 9 there were two separate CDs, one of
ghost 9 and one ghost 2003.

Irwin

 

[Jim]

Ghost 9 is the latest and is pretty bad capability wise.
It can only run on the NT/2K/XP family, not the Win9x family.
Thats why Ghost 2003 is included, for those dinosaurs.

Ghost 9 has some extra capabilitys, it can do most stuff
at the XP level, doesnt need to boot to dos and does
incremental images. Pretty buggy tho, I prefer True Image.


Yes you can use 2003 if you are careful. Safest to do it
after booting the CD and its absolutely crucial to not let
XP see the original HDD when booting from the clone for
the first boot after the clone has been done. Just unplug
the original HDD, boot XP from the clone. Once its been
allowed to do another boot after it has claimed to have
found new hardware, you can connect the original drive
again and reformat it for data etc if you want.

In theory Ghost 9 can clone a hard drive, but you cant
do it from the booted CD, you can only do it from the
installed Ghost and its one hell of a mess with drive
letters and failed to clone one partition when I tried it.

Ghost 9 is based on PQ DI 7.0, DI has the same copying, imaging and image
recovery methods, limitations.
Being old hat, I don't trust DI to copy XP partition as clone to another
hard drive. I do use DI for cloning everything else though. Use Partition
Commander to delete XP clone, copy other partitions with DI, then clone XP
with Partition Commander afterwards. Partition Commander is run optionally
with boot manager System Commander here. XP never sees its clone this way.
DI works in XP so has faster read/writes.

 

[Rod Speed]

Ghost 9 is based on PQ DI 7.0,

Nope, PQ V2i, actually.

DI has the same copying, imaging and
image recovery methods, limitations.

Nope, most obviously what can be done
at the XP level and incremental images.

And you cant do a clone outside XP with Ghost 9.
You can with DI 7.

Being old hat, I don't trust DI to copy XP
partition as clone to another hard drive.

It does it fine as long as you dont let XP see the original
during the first boot after the clone has been made.

I do use DI for cloning everything else though.

It clones XP fine as long as you dont let XP see
the original during the first boot after the clone has
been made. Same as Ghost 2003 in that regard.

Use Partition Commander to delete XP clone, copy other partitions
with DI, then clone XP with Partition Commander afterwards.

No point, just unplug the original drive for the first boot after
the clone has been done, and then plug it back in after that.

Partition Commander is run optionally with boot manager
System Commander here. XP never sees its clone this way.

It isnt necessary to hide it except for the first boot of the clone.

DI works in XP so has faster read/writes.

True Image leaves it for dead.