Use mostly use ATI, but I not really happy with it for the following reasons:ġ) The ATI boot discs are a nightmare. TrueImage" threads come up so often that I should just save the following into a text file so I can paste it into the next one!
If it is backed up within windows does that mean you wouldn't get a bootable image-or that you have to jump through some hoops to make it bootable?ĭoes Ghost 12/14 make an image that would be bootable from within windows? I read that it didn't require that anymore-but is that true? Or are you saying in order to make such an image I have to reboot into the MS-prewindows environment? (I assume that ATI does all this automatically). If I make a disk image using ATI and then restore that image to a new HD-it won't boot? If you jsut want to back up files that may be locked, this can all happen from within a windows session. Some poeple don't like this so you can burn a Linux-based CD that can be used to boot and make a truely off-line copy as well, or you can use a Bart's PE disc if you like that. If you want to image the entire drive, so as to make a bootable backup, it will image from the MS provided pre windows environment (where chkdsk runs). When I tried stuff in the past (years ago) those that didn't reboot, made an image that once restored wasn't bootable.Īnd the stupid Ghost corporate still reboots (as far as I could tell-I had handed it off to someone else when Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 came out). Just to make sure-it makes images without having to reboot into some DOS environment, right? Well hell-that settles it-I hated drive image and didn't think it worked that well. But i keep around an ancient copy of Drive Image (pre-symantec) because i can make images for VMware.
So now you have to activate "Drive Image".Īcronis has Online and they have have an offline Linux environment Offline image option. Is stripping the option of offline images using "Drive Image" but they allow you to use "Ghost" 2003 being the last version of ghost they made to do it. The 2 large contributions Symantec added to Drive image.
Current Ghost = PowerQuest's Drive Image that symantec bought.