OT: Ghost 10

I've got Ghost 7 and 2002, both DOS based.

I'm looking at 10, windows (xp sp4) based.

I've go concerns with 10, reading some horror stories,
but access to USB drives would be nice.

Any one got exp with 10?

I'm trying to get a trial copy but I'm still waiting on the email.

I understand their T/S is India based - go figure.

0x22

CBIC
Wed Jan 17 15:28:40 CST 2007


"kpg" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
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> I understand their T/S is India based - go figure.

Run. Don't walk. Run away. This can't end well for you.

kpg
Wed Jan 17 15:28:49 CST 2007

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BD[MCNGP]
Wed Jan 17 15:47:47 CST 2007

You ARE aware that one of our members is India based too, right?

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"CBIC" <spam.thisbiotch@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "kpg" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns98BB9C5B2BA15ipostthereforeiam@207.46.248.16...
>
>> I understand their T/S is India based - go figure.
>
> Run. Don't walk. Run away. This can't end well for you.
>

CBIC
Wed Jan 17 15:59:45 CST 2007


"BD[MCNGP]" <...---...> wrote in message
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> You ARE aware that one of our members is India based too, right?
>
> --
> BD
> MCNGP #51
>

Indeed I am.

kpg
Wed Jan 17 15:59:13 CST 2007

"BD[MCNGP]" <...---...> wrote in news:OXyzgEoOHHA.400@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:

> You ARE aware that one of our members is India based too, right?
>
> --
> BD
> MCNGP #51
>
>
>
> "CBIC" <spam.thisbiotch@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OUt3q5nOHHA.5000@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "kpg" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns98BB9C5B2BA15ipostthereforeiam@207.46.248.16...
>>
>>> I understand their T/S is India based - go figure.
>>
>> Run. Don't walk. Run away. This can't end well for you.

Yeah, I've been meaning to talk to you about that.

no really now, if the t/s drones were half as articulate as
cerbo we would all be in a lot of trouble!

kpg
Wed Jan 17 16:02:42 CST 2007

crap.

Cnet has some good (as in bad) reviews. 2.6 or so out of 10.

Seems it's not the same ole ghost.

I hate windows - it has destroyed all that is good and pure
in the world.

BD[MCNGP]
Wed Jan 17 16:35:08 CST 2007



"kpg" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
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> "BD[MCNGP]" <...---...> wrote in news:OXyzgEoOHHA.400@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:
>
>> You ARE aware that one of our members is India based too, right?
>>
>> --
>> BD
>> MCNGP #51
>>
>>
>>
>> "CBIC" <spam.thisbiotch@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:OUt3q5nOHHA.5000@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>> "kpg" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
>>> news:Xns98BB9C5B2BA15ipostthereforeiam@207.46.248.16...
>>>
>>>> I understand their T/S is India based - go figure.
>>>
>>> Run. Don't walk. Run away. This can't end well for you.
>
> Yeah, I've been meaning to talk to you about that.
>
And you need to talk to *me* about this, because?

> no really now, if the t/s drones were half as articulate as
> cerbo we would all be in a lot of trouble!
>
If the t/s drones knew 1/2 of what Cerebrus knows, we wouldn't have 1/10th the
problems with t/s that we currently have.


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BD[MCNGP]
Wed Jan 17 16:35:49 CST 2007



"CBIC" <spam.thisbiotch@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "BD[MCNGP]" <...---...> wrote in message
> news:OXyzgEoOHHA.400@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> You ARE aware that one of our members is India based too, right?
>>
>> --
>> BD
>> MCNGP #51
>>
>
> Indeed I am.
>
Ok, just wanted to clear that up. ;)

TurkReno
Wed Jan 17 17:12:21 CST 2007

"BD[MCNGP]" <...---...> wrote in
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>
> If the t/s drones knew 1/2 of what Cerebrus knows, we wouldn't have
> 1/10th the problems with t/s that we currently have.
>

Maybe a 1/32nd of the problems...rough estimate =P

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TurkReno
Wed Jan 17 17:17:45 CST 2007

kpg <no@spam.com> wrote in news:Xns98BBA340E99D8ipostthereforeiam@
207.46.248.16:

> crap.
>
> Cnet has some good (as in bad) reviews. 2.6 or so out of 10.
>
> Seems it's not the same ole ghost.
>
> I hate windows - it has destroyed all that is good and pure
> in the world.

,

TurkReno
Wed Jan 17 17:18:14 CST 2007

On 17 Jan 2007, you wrote in microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse:

> Subject: Re: OT: Ghost 10
> From: kpg <no@spam.com>
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse
>
> crap.

Sh!t.

> Cnet has some good (as in bad) reviews. 2.6 or so out of 10.

CNet was better back when they launched...now they're just hyper-
critical about everything and IMHO they are Advertising driven.

> Seems it's not the same ole ghost.

Nothing ever is. I tried summoning this dead person in my house once
during this seance....didn't work right...had some mean old man on my
hands.

> I hate windows - it has destroyed all that is good and pure
> in the world.

Yes, yes. We all know how Bill gets. You just pull the covers over
your head and pretend that it never happened. Good old
Windows...destroying the world...I sort of like that idea. Lets give
everyone we know a free copy of Vista and put it on any computer that it
will fit on and let Windows havok reign upon us like gold is falling
from the sky...except its crap, not gold.

On a lighter note, I drove around in a golf cart today and took photos.
They almost didn't give me the cart when I started questioning if I
could take my potato cannon with me as my 9 Iron.

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Jonathan
Wed Jan 17 17:43:05 CST 2007

kpg wrote:
> I've got Ghost 7 and 2002, both DOS based.
>
> I'm looking at 10, windows (xp sp4) based.
>
> I've go concerns with 10, reading some horror stories,
> but access to USB drives would be nice.
>
> Any one got exp with 10?
>
> I'm trying to get a trial copy but I'm still waiting on the email.
>
> I understand their T/S is India based - go figure.
>
> 0x22

I used a later version that supported USB (not sure if it was 10 or
earlier). No issues.

catwalker63
Wed Jan 17 23:57:47 CST 2007

TurkReno <forum@turkreno.com> prattled ceaselessly in
news:Xns98BBB006049EDLasher36526@207.46.248.16:

> On 17 Jan 2007, you wrote in microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse:
>
>> Subject: Re: OT: Ghost 10
>> From: kpg <no@spam.com>
>> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse
>>
>> crap.
>
> Sh!t.
>
>> Cnet has some good (as in bad) reviews. 2.6 or so out of 10.
>
> CNet was better back when they launched...now they're just hyper-
> critical about everything and IMHO they are Advertising driven.
>
>> Seems it's not the same ole ghost.
>
> Nothing ever is. I tried summoning this dead person in my house once
> during this seance....didn't work right...had some mean old man on my
> hands.
>
>> I hate windows - it has destroyed all that is good and pure
>> in the world.
>
> Yes, yes. We all know how Bill gets. You just pull the covers over
> your head and pretend that it never happened. Good old
> Windows...destroying the world...I sort of like that idea. Lets give
> everyone we know a free copy of Vista and put it on any computer that
> it will fit on and let Windows havok reign upon us like gold is
> falling from the sky...except its crap, not gold.
>
> On a lighter note, I drove around in a golf cart today and took
> photos. They almost didn't give me the cart when I started
> questioning if I could take my potato cannon with me as my 9 Iron.
>
>

Ooooooh! I love golf carts. Especially the old gas ones.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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kpg
Thu Jan 18 09:21:03 CST 2007

> On a lighter note, I drove around in a golf cart today and took
> photos. They almost didn't give me the cart when I started
> questioning if I could take my potato cannon with me as my 9 Iron.

I want your job. Let's trade.

kpg
Thu Jan 18 09:40:20 CST 2007

Jonathan Roberts <gremln007@diynics.com> wrote in news:uq2FlDpOHHA.2468
@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> I used a later version that supported USB (not sure if it was 10 or
> earlier). No issues.

10 supports USB, Network, everything, becuase it's windows based, but
10 is more of a "backup" program than a disk cloning program. They
have a Pre-Excecution environment that can be run by booting from
the product cd which supports restoring an image but I'm not sure one
can be made from there.

I know why they changed to this format, to appeal to the great unwahsed
that have no concept of drive cloning and just want a total drive backup
that's easy to use, but I want something that boots clean and is not
tied to a single machine with complex (hence unrelaible) licenseing
schemes.

I can continue with the older DOS based versions, but they won't write
an image to an NTFS drive (can't see 'em) although you can clone NTFS
drives, DOS USB support is possible but requires driver tweaking, so a
generic DOS boot disk with USB support is elusive. Also I'm not sure if
DOS based ghost can see SATA drives or not.

I'm looking at driveimage xml (freeware) run from a BartPE boot disk, if
I can save and restore several times I'll start trusting it more and just
go with that.

Jonathan
Thu Jan 18 19:23:30 CST 2007

kpg wrote:
> I'm looking at driveimage xml (freeware) run from a BartPE boot disk, if
> I can save and restore several times I'll start trusting it more and just
> go with that.
>

You might also check out Acronis. Not free, but cheap. It works well
in my (limited) experience.

kpg
Thu Jan 18 22:09:50 CST 2007


"Jonathan Roberts" <gremln007@diynics.com> wrote in message
news:OU4jQg2OHHA.4376@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> kpg wrote:
>> I'm looking at driveimage xml (freeware) run from a BartPE boot disk, if
>> I can save and restore several times I'll start trusting it more and just
>> go with that.
>>
>
> You might also check out Acronis. Not free, but cheap. It works well in
> my (limited) experience.

Yeah, I've heard good things about Acronis.

After playing with DriveImage XML (by Runtime software) I'm starting
to like it a lot. They write the meta data (directory structure/files
names/etc)
to an XML file, and the drive data to a binary file. What's nice about that
is I
wrote a small vb6 utility that can locate and extract any file I want.
Their
interface also allows this, so I didn't really need to do it, point is the
data
is accessible - so even if they go south or pull a Norton on me I can use
the
data. Very comforting.

Not sure how they react in a RAID situation, and I can't access the data
when I use their compression (so I won't) but they can hot image a drive
using Volume Shadow Copy and so far it seems reliable.

Pretty cool for free.

Goodbye Norton.

Jonathan
Thu Jan 18 22:41:18 CST 2007

kpg wrote:
> "Jonathan Roberts" <gremln007@diynics.com> wrote in message
> news:OU4jQg2OHHA.4376@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> kpg wrote:
>>> I'm looking at driveimage xml (freeware) run from a BartPE boot disk, if
>>> I can save and restore several times I'll start trusting it more and just
>>> go with that.
>>>
>> You might also check out Acronis. Not free, but cheap. It works well in
>> my (limited) experience.
>
> Yeah, I've heard good things about Acronis.
>
> After playing with DriveImage XML (by Runtime software) I'm starting
> to like it a lot. They write the meta data (directory structure/files
> names/etc)
> to an XML file, and the drive data to a binary file. What's nice about that
> is I
> wrote a small vb6 utility that can locate and extract any file I want.
> Their
> interface also allows this, so I didn't really need to do it, point is the
> data
> is accessible - so even if they go south or pull a Norton on me I can use
> the
> data. Very comforting.
>
> Not sure how they react in a RAID situation, and I can't access the data
> when I use their compression (so I won't) but they can hot image a drive
> using Volume Shadow Copy and so far it seems reliable.
>
> Pretty cool for free.
>
> Goodbye Norton.
>
>

Wow, that does sound good. Have to check that one out.

TechGeekPro
Fri Jan 19 19:42:04 CST 2007

We use ShadowProtect.

http://www.storagecraft.com/

Their IT Edition is licensed to the technician, not the machine.

http://www.storagecraft.com/products/ShadowProtectIT/

They're newer versions will support hardware independent restoration.

http://www.storagecraft.com/news/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=34

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