Anyone using Ghost?
Sep. 12th, 2006 01:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lilfluffAnyone using the current version of Ghost? I was surprised when I started seeing customer reviews with very unhappy comments, and then I discovered that it's no longer using the same engine underneath. It seems that Ghost 2003 was the last version of the old Ghost, symantic apparently bought out another company that had a drive imaging program and simply renamed the next version of that Ghost.
On the plus side the new Ghost appears to have good support for usb and firewire hard drives and burners.
On the down side it now runs from within windows, which means if you want to image the boot drive you are running from the same drive you are scanning. Which just doesn't sound to me like a recipe for good accurate images.
So is anyone on here using a current version of Ghost or have used it and have an opinion of whether it is still worth buying? Or would my money be better spend keeping my copy of Ghost 2000(2001?) and putting an internal DVD burner in this laptop instead?
Ghost came in quite handy on my old desktop machine, but the laptop has a 40 gig drive. That would be quite a stack of CD's. But I liked knowing that if something went crazy I could always just pop in the CD's and re-image the box. The laptop is, I believe, starting to be asking for a fresh install of windows. (And if I'm wiping the drive clean, I might as well partition it and put linux on too)
On the plus side the new Ghost appears to have good support for usb and firewire hard drives and burners.
On the down side it now runs from within windows, which means if you want to image the boot drive you are running from the same drive you are scanning. Which just doesn't sound to me like a recipe for good accurate images.
So is anyone on here using a current version of Ghost or have used it and have an opinion of whether it is still worth buying? Or would my money be better spend keeping my copy of Ghost 2000(2001?) and putting an internal DVD burner in this laptop instead?
Ghost came in quite handy on my old desktop machine, but the laptop has a 40 gig drive. That would be quite a stack of CD's. But I liked knowing that if something went crazy I could always just pop in the CD's and re-image the box. The laptop is, I believe, starting to be asking for a fresh install of windows. (And if I'm wiping the drive clean, I might as well partition it and put linux on too)
A bit of history.
Date: 2006-09-12 01:57 pm (UTC)In '03 they purchased Powerquest, which made a competeing disk imaging/editing program partition magic and DriveImage.
I imagine that parts of the DriveImage code are being ported to use the ghost UI.
Frankly, no tech should be without an older version of Ghost AND PartitionMagic. (and if they work on servers, ServerMagic as well) They are awesome programs which can make processes which are otherwise a hassle and very time consuming a lot easier.