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Re: Vista and Norton Ghost 12
Personally I would buy BootItNG or Acronis has several. They are Vista
ready. Also cheaper if I recall.
"GG" <nospam@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:12E12FE5-3D07-47A2-95FD-C529D1C6B70E@microsoft.com...
> Let me know if you find an answer to this because I planned on buying this
> version too.
> If it doesn't perform like the previous versions, I don't be buying it.
>
> "John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
> news:emHJ%23fl7HHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Versions since they adopted the DriveImage (Powerquest) programs have
>> only been able to restore from the CD. They have come with the older
>> versions packaged so you could run older restores made with them. Not
>> sure about the restores made with the Powerquest versions.
>>
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>> "Sam" <sam@nospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:GVVCi.9186$Y7.5444@bignews3.bellsouth.net...
>>>I just picked up Norton Ghost 12 to use with Vista and I'm thoroughly
>>>confused. Before I contact (and probably have to pay for) support I
>>>thought I'd see if anyone here had used it and could answer my questions.
>>>
>>> All I want to do is use the boot disk and backup the system partition,
>>> but it looks like they've changed the way it works.
>>>
>>> The boot disk is only giving me recovery options and no backup ones. Is
>>> everything done from the "client app" now?
>>>
>>> My Dell E521 has two recovery partitions (the Dell Utility and Vista
>>> recovery) that I'd also like to backup but they aren't showing up in the
>>> list of drives. Can I not select raw partitions on the disk? Am I
>>> limited only to drives that are mapped by the OS?
>>>
>>> In case of 100% disk failure I expected to be able to boot from the
>>> recovery CD and restore the two recovery partitions, the OS, (and an
>>> additional files/games partitions on Disk 0) on a replacement disk. How
>>> am I supposed to recover a failed disk?
>>>
>>> I like the old way because it operated outside the OS. I'm not sure I
>>> like this whole "recovery service" idea. If all I wanted was an suped
>>> up version of Vista's System Restore I wouldn't have bothered.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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