Hi Sam,
I'M AFTER THE SAME THING AS YOU.
WORKING WITH LOTS OF COMPUTERS FOR ALL KINDS OF USERS *I NEED A PROGRAM
THAT I CAN BOOT FROM CD AND CREATE IMAGES* OF LAPTOPS, AS WELL AS
RESTORING FROM USB-DRIVE ETC.
LATELY I TRIED NORTON GHOST 10 (AN OLDER VERSION THAN THE NEW 12).
*THE NORTON GHOST 10 CD IS BY DEFAULT BOOTABLE.
ALTHOUGH I LEARNED THIS:
1. IT TAKES ALMOST 5 MINUTES TO BOOT IT AND GET TO RECOVER CONSOLE.
2. IT CAN'T CREATE AN IMAGE, ONLY RESTORE.
Yesterday a work colleague told me Norton had a new version out; 12.
So, I read a few lines on their web site and I read on one of the news:
"Lights Out Disaster Console - no need for boot CD".
OK - I wont ever get a boot CD that works, I thought to myself, and
continued to google for Norton - and found this Forum.
I got really dissapointed when your post confirmed it - not even Norton
Ghost 12 can by default boot from CD and create Image.*
Why do I want to create an image from a bootable CD?
Becasue I handle lots of computers and I dont want to smear the OS with
a software that is not needed. The end user will not ever use it. Only
me.
I don't like the idea to download and customize my own bootable CDs and
load 5 years old executables on it, and then later add drivers to
operate USB disks etc.
SO, I MUST NOW RECOMMEND THE SOFTWARE TRUE IMAGE, FROM ACRONIS.
This is how you work with that program, and these are the benefits I've
come to like about it.
Buy it, and install to whatever computer you want, I've read about not
so skilled persons that have problem installing it, but that can't
possibly be the softwares fault.
After installing it, look for a menu that is called "Create Resque
Media".
Insert an empty CD, check all options and complete the burn process.
Out comes a very nice bootable CD that loads quickly, and holds all the
kind of driver you need and with a very nice interface.
NOW YOU CAN DO THIS:
1. BOOT ON THE CD (OR WITH GUIDES ON THE NET, CREATE A BOOTABLE USB
MEMORY).
2. CONNECT AND DISCONNECT USB-DEVICES, THE PROGRAM FINDS THEM.
3. EJECT THE BOOT CD AND INSERT AN OTHER DVD WITH IMAGES, THE PROGRAM
IS LOADED TO THE MEMORY, SO NO NEED TO KEEP THE BOOT CD IN.
4. ACCESS A LAN, BY TYPING SOME IP-ADRESS AND ADMIN PASSWORK FOR A
SHARE.
5. CREATE AN IMAGE OF THE COMPUTER AND SAVE TO USB, ANOTHER PARTITION
OR WHATEVER DEVICE.
6. RESTORE FROM WHATEVER.
7. READ SATA DISK DRIVES (I'M NOT SURE NORTON CAN DO THAT).
8. IT WORKS FAST! A NORMAL XP-INSTALL @ ABOUT 3 GB TAKES 2-3 MINUTS TO
RESTORE FROM USB2 DRIVES.
9. WHEN DONE, JUST REBOOT THE COMPUTER.
The version I've tried is Acronis True Image Home. But there is also
Corporate editions, but with the needs you have, I don't think you need
it.
If you decide to google on Acronis True Image Home, beware that people
tends to have messed up computers that can't install advanced software.
So, don't mind those people or what they write.
Just install to a vanilla XP and create the CD.
Personally, I use this software at home and I use Windows XP SP2, that
is 2 years old, never reinstalled. Software works very very fine. I
tend to keep away from stupid software and my system is not smeared
with sharewares.
So, what I will do now is to try the old Norton Ghost 2003-executable
and see what it takes to make a bootable Nortin CD that handles usb
drives, sata disks and how fast it is.
Maybe Norton does it with charm, maybe not.
But I hope my information was good for you.
I've used Disc Cloning since about the year 2000; Norton Ghost, Drive
Image and PowerQuest's Deploy systems, as well as FreeBSD boot cds and
now lately Acronis, since version 9.
I can easily say Acronis beats them all by far.
I wish you good luck!
/Bepps
Sam;3134755 Wrote:
> 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.
--
Bepps
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