Ghosting Program

KamiKazi

Looking for opinions on what you guys think is the best ghosting program and whether its free or not.

Just want to be able to reinstall windows + drivers + programs in the one go

kaimera

Looking for something similar myself actually, even something that will let me create a recovery partition or the like.

I know norton ghost did it but last time i used it was a few years ago and it was kinda bloated.

Karoma

Try Acronis TrueImage

kaimera

Karoma wrote: »

Try Acronis TrueImage

Very nice Karoma, thanks.

osmethod

A handy open source disk imaging tool...

http://selfimage.excelcia.org/

osmethod

Galen

Another free option is DriveImage XML - download at www.runtime.org/dixml.htm to restore you will need to create a DriveImage XML boot disc with BartPE (DriveImage XML won't win any speed records but it is free)

Other alternatives;
Paragon Drive Backup $50 http://www.drive-backup.com/
Acronis True Image $50 http://www.acronis.com
DriveClone $40 http://www.farstone.com/software/driveclone.htm

JMURPHY3

I find Norton Ghost is excellent........I use Norton Ghost 2003, even has boot-up disks that will transfer from one drive to another in DOS mode.Makes whole process vey easy indeed..:D

Galen

note:

Norton Ghost 2003 has hard drive size limit, like Fdisk doesn't support hard drives over a certain size in the region 30 or 40GB

BigEejit

Use Acronis here as well, great program

Going to try that selfimage jobbie.

Bebop

kaimera wrote: »

I know norton ghost did it but last time i used it was a few years ago and it was kinda bloated.

The Ghost executable would fit on a bootable floppy; it contains everything you need to image a hard drive, I've used Ghost since about 2001 and I have never heard of a 40GB limit.

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Rig;

Secondhand Dell P3, 128 RAM, Via chipset, maxtor HDD that sounds like an UZI, Win98 second edition. dodgy SIS VGA graphics..sweeet

Sean^DCT4

FYI:
I've made a 200GB image with Norton Ghost (old version).