Disk Imaging Software

As I often install and uninstall games, apps, drivers, etc., my
computers gets a bit sloppy in performance. I am anticipating a full
format and reinstall of XP, plus all my racing sims, sometime in the
coming weeks.

My goal this time is to format, then reinstall everything to a "basic"
level (NR2003 plus 1.1 patch, plus BGN, CTS, PTA, IROC, plus the JJ
Johnston/Superspeedway.net updates, as an example) and then do a hard
drive image or clone which will allow me to more easily "fall back" to
the pristine condition that I have right after the format.

Is there a recommendation for the software to do this? Norton Ghost 10
and True Image 9.0 seem to the be most frequently mentioned titles. Any
upside/downside to these programs that anyone wants to comment on?

Thanks.

Darus wrote:
> As I often install and uninstall games, apps, drivers, etc., my
> computers gets a bit sloppy in performance. I am anticipating a full
> format and reinstall of XP, plus all my racing sims, sometime in the
> coming weeks.
>
> My goal this time is to format, then reinstall everything to a "basic"
> level (NR2003 plus 1.1 patch, plus BGN, CTS, PTA, IROC, plus the JJ
> Johnston/Superspeedway.net updates, as an example) and then do a hard
> drive image or clone which will allow me to more easily "fall back" to
> the pristine condition that I have right after the format.
>
> Is there a recommendation for the software to do this? Norton Ghost 10
> and True Image 9.0 seem to the be most frequently mentioned titles.
> Any upside/downside to these programs that anyone wants to comment on?
>
> Thanks.


I have used Powerquest's Drive Image 7 for some time, with great success. I
image to an external usb2.0 hard drive.
PQ has since been bought out, by Norton I believe.

I have heard good things about both programs you mention, and you would
probably be satisfied with either one. Both will allow you to image, both
will also allow you to restore either individual files and folders or the
complete image.
I personally don't care for Norton's software anymore, for things such as
anti-virus or system cleaners, but I believe Ghost by itself is a good
program.

I have heard very good things about the True Image software. If I were
purchasing a disc imaging program today, I believe that is the one I would
go with.



--
Don Burnette

I use Ghost 10 and am extremely pleased in that it now allows scheduled unattended image backups, hot images (while OS is running), as well as a feature a lot of backup software includes - that being incremental images!!! I have also heard good things about TrueImage as well.

Wag
"Don Burnette" > wrote in message ...

I have used Powerquest's Drive Image 7 for some time, with great success. I
image to an external usb2.0 hard drive.
PQ has since been bought out, by Norton I believe.

I have heard good things about both programs you mention, and you would
probably be satisfied with either one. Both will allow you to image, both
will also allow you to restore either individual files and folders or the
complete image.
I personally don't care for Norton's software anymore, for things such as
anti-virus or system cleaners, but I believe Ghost by itself is a good
program.

I have heard very good things about the True Image software. If I were
purchasing a disc imaging program today, I believe that is the one I would
go with.



--
Don Burnette

Darus wrote:
> As I often install and uninstall games, apps, drivers, etc., my
> computers gets a bit sloppy in performance. I am anticipating a full
> format and reinstall of XP, plus all my racing sims, sometime in the
> coming weeks.
>
> My goal this time is to format, then reinstall everything to a "basic"
> level (NR2003 plus 1.1 patch, plus BGN, CTS, PTA, IROC, plus the JJ
> Johnston/Superspeedway.net updates, as an example) and then do a hard
> drive image or clone which will allow me to more easily "fall back" to
> the pristine condition that I have right after the format.
>
> Is there a recommendation for the software to do this? Norton Ghost 10
> and True Image 9.0 seem to the be most frequently mentioned titles. Any
> upside/downside to these programs that anyone wants to comment on?
>
> Thanks.
>

I use a combination of backup-up solutions. I use Genie Soft Backup-Up
Manager Pro to run regular backup routines, and I have Acronis True
Image 8.0 to make images and it works great.

Scott

--
Scott B. Husted
http://www.Husted.cc

Hi,

I'm using Drive Backup (though it wasn't mentioned)
http://www.drive-backup.com/home/personal/
I was attracted by nice price and good functionality, and now it works
for me well I was very pleased with support, their nice guys helped
me a lot.

Ah, forgot to menton - I was very impressed by Drive Backup's bootable
CD. You can use it to restore your machine in case of Windows' death.
Contrary to my expectations, this CD has intuitive interface and is
easy to use.

Hope my information can help you.

Cheers,
Queen.

Thanks! Hadn't heard of the product beforee. Seems quite good.
Something more to consider.

I used to use DriveImage, but it went into the crapper after version 2002.
Then symantec bought PowerQuest and as far as I know, it was a buy & Shelve
purchase because I've not seen any updates in a few years.

I now use Acronis TrueImage.

Not a big fan of Ghost.

-Larry

"Darus" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> As I often install and uninstall games, apps, drivers, etc., my
> computers gets a bit sloppy in performance. I am anticipating a full
> format and reinstall of XP, plus all my racing sims, sometime in the
> coming weeks.
>
> My goal this time is to format, then reinstall everything to a "basic"
> level (NR2003 plus 1.1 patch, plus BGN, CTS, PTA, IROC, plus the JJ
> Johnston/Superspeedway.net updates, as an example) and then do a hard
> drive image or clone which will allow me to more easily "fall back" to
> the pristine condition that I have right after the format.
>
> Is there a recommendation for the software to do this? Norton Ghost 10
> and True Image 9.0 seem to the be most frequently mentioned titles. Any
> upside/downside to these programs that anyone wants to comment on?
>
> Thanks.
>

DriveImage 7 isn't true imaging software any more. The last version that
was pure, true imaging software was V2002, which was the last version prior
to version 7.

Version 7 is more backup management software. It images, but not in the
sense that V2002 did. Luckily V7 comes with V2002 in the box for this
purpose.

Also be aware, Version 7 has a heavy-handed Product Activation system built
into it.

-Larry

"Don Burnette" > wrote in message
...
> Darus wrote:
>> As I often install and uninstall games, apps, drivers, etc., my
>> computers gets a bit sloppy in performance. I am anticipating a full
>> format and reinstall of XP, plus all my racing sims, sometime in the
>> coming weeks.
>>
>> My goal this time is to format, then reinstall everything to a "basic"
>> level (NR2003 plus 1.1 patch, plus BGN, CTS, PTA, IROC, plus the JJ
>> Johnston/Superspeedway.net updates, as an example) and then do a hard
>> drive image or clone which will allow me to more easily "fall back" to
>> the pristine condition that I have right after the format.
>>
>> Is there a recommendation for the software to do this? Norton Ghost 10
>> and True Image 9.0 seem to the be most frequently mentioned titles.
>> Any upside/downside to these programs that anyone wants to comment on?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>
> I have used Powerquest's Drive Image 7 for some time, with great success.
> I image to an external usb2.0 hard drive.
> PQ has since been bought out, by Norton I believe.
>
> I have heard good things about both programs you mention, and you would
> probably be satisfied with either one. Both will allow you to image, both
> will also allow you to restore either individual files and folders or the
> complete image.
> I personally don't care for Norton's software anymore, for things such as
> anti-virus or system cleaners, but I believe Ghost by itself is a good
> program.
>
> I have heard very good things about the True Image software. If I were
> purchasing a disc imaging program today, I believe that is the one I would
> go with.
>
>
>
> --
> Don Burnette
>
>
>

In article .com>,
says...
> As I often install and uninstall games, apps, drivers, etc., my
> computers gets a bit sloppy in performance. I am anticipating a full
> format and reinstall of XP, plus all my racing sims, sometime in the
> coming weeks.
>
> My goal this time is to format, then reinstall everything to a "basic"
> level (NR2003 plus 1.1 patch, plus BGN, CTS, PTA, IROC, plus the JJ
> Johnston/Superspeedway.net updates, as an example) and then do a hard
> drive image or clone which will allow me to more easily "fall back" to
> the pristine condition that I have right after the format.
>
> Is there a recommendation for the software to do this? Norton Ghost 10
> and True Image 9.0 seem to the be most frequently mentioned titles. Any
> upside/downside to these programs that anyone wants to comment on?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

I know people are mentioning good things about True Image, but I
wondered if anyone here had actually managed to re-install from an image
that was created of an O/S that was running at the time. What I mean
is, I have a copy of True Image 8.0 and have a dual boot system which
has meant that, prior to version 8 I had always created the image of one
O/S whilst running from the other one because the imaging software just
wouldn't let me do it any other way.

So V8 doesn't have this problem, and so I tried creating an image of XP
whilst running XP and everything went ok. However, when I came to
restore said image when I changed my HD it installed but failed to run,
stopping at the XP Welcome screen and, despite even trying a repair
install over the top, eventually I had to restore from one of my
previous backups that was created through the old method.

So, anyone actually managed to do this without issue using any Version
of True Image?

--
Pete Ives
Remove All_stRESS before sending me an email

(Peter) wrote:

> However, when I came to restore said image when I
> changed my HD

I find Trueimage is as fallible as the rest if restoring an old setup to
a new hard disk. The "shape" of the HD needs to match the shape of the
old one in order for XP to work properly from the start. You'd think by
now they'd have got round that problem. Still, at least the old backup
can be mounted later on and critical files copied over.

Andrew McP