my HD just crashed this morning and i'm going to have to get it RMA'd and install Windows and all my apps all over again. i've never created a ghost image but i think it's time to now - it's just too tedious to get things the way i like them every time.

is norton ghost still the best program? or should i be using something else to create this image once i get it all the way i want it?

4/26/2007 5:33:38 PM

Ghost works great if your restoring it to the same hardware normally. I like Acronis True Image personally. It's done a great job for me in the past and has saved my ass many times.

4/26/2007 5:40:40 PM

ghost is great


I haven't used acronis but I've heard good things about it

4/26/2007 5:43:54 PM

yeah i used to be a ghost fan but acronis is a far superior product for non-enterprise uses.

15 day trial here:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/

4/26/2007 5:50:08 PM

ghost is awesome but if you dont wanna buy anything, download sysprep and g4u. sysprep your image after you make it so it's not hardware dependent and then make a 1:1 disk copy over g4u.

4/26/2007 9:05:13 PM

an image will still be chipset dependent with sysprep


i believe you'll have to change the HAL to get around that

4/26/2007 9:10:37 PM

i believe youre wrong

4/26/2007 10:12:12 PM

I believe I can fly.

4/27/2007 1:00:54 AM

^SUSPEND!!

4/27/2007 1:08:48 AM