Norton Ghost or Acronis TrueImage?

Can anyone recommend which of the two programmmes in the subject line is the
easiest and most reliable?
I hope to back-up my entire hard drive contents to an external hard drive so
I can "re-install" if things go badly wrong.
I'm looking for ease of use and reliability only.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks Chrisss.......

JoseJarabo
Wed Dec 22 13:37:03 CST 2004

Ive only had experience with Ghost and for the most part its very reliable
and pretty easy to use.

"chrissssss.........." wrote:

> Can anyone recommend which of the two programmmes in the subject line is the
> easiest and most reliable?
> I hope to back-up my entire hard drive contents to an external hard drive so
> I can "re-install" if things go badly wrong.
> I'm looking for ease of use and reliability only.
> Any help appreciated.
> Thanks Chrisss.......
>
>
>

chrissssss
Wed Dec 22 13:39:52 CST 2004

Please let me add that my computer is for home use only and is not
networked.
I'm using Windows XP with SP2.
My external hard drive has a USB 2 connection.
Cheers, Chrissss......

Phillip
Wed Dec 22 13:46:44 CST 2004

I still vote for Ghost, too. Save your drive to a Ghost Image file and burn
the image file to a CD or DVD. You can even put a copy of Ghost on the
CD/DVD. Then you can easily restore right from the disk if you have to. A
basic install of the old NT4 Workstation I've restored using a CD took only
2.5 minutes once the process began. That is how I rebuild our old NT
machines and I never have to worry about hunting down old device drivers and
stuff.


--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


"chrissssss.........." <chris@newsgroupinfo.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:cqcii4$f2j$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Please let me add that my computer is for home use only and is not
> networked.
> I'm using Windows XP with SP2.
> My external hard drive has a USB 2 connection.
> Cheers, Chrissss......
>
>

chrissssss
Wed Dec 22 13:54:25 CST 2004

Thanks Phil,
I have never been keen on writing to CDs or DVDs as I have found them
unreliable. That's why I really want to save everything to my external hard
drive. Can I still do this?
Chrisss......


"Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
news:uDkL47F6EHA.3708@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>I still vote for Ghost, too. Save your drive to a Ghost Image file and
>burn
> the image file to a CD or DVD. You can even put a copy of Ghost on the
> CD/DVD. Then you can easily restore right from the disk if you have to. A
> basic install of the old NT4 Workstation I've restored using a CD took
> only
> 2.5 minutes once the process began. That is how I rebuild our old NT
> machines and I never have to worry about hunting down old device drivers
> and
> stuff.
>
>
> --
>
> Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
> www.wandtv.com
>
>
> "chrissssss.........." <chris@newsgroupinfo.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in
> message
> news:cqcii4$f2j$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> Please let me add that my computer is for home use only and is not
>> networked.
>> I'm using Windows XP with SP2.
>> My external hard drive has a USB 2 connection.
>> Cheers, Chrissss......
>>
>>
>
>

JoseJarabo
Wed Dec 22 14:19:03 CST 2004

yes you can.. However Im inclined to ask.. This is so you have a copy of your
OS with your program files installed right?

"chrissssss.........." wrote:

> Thanks Phil,
> I have never been keen on writing to CDs or DVDs as I have found them
> unreliable. That's why I really want to save everything to my external hard
> drive. Can I still do this?
> Chrisss......
>
>
> "Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
> news:uDkL47F6EHA.3708@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> >I still vote for Ghost, too. Save your drive to a Ghost Image file and
> >burn
> > the image file to a CD or DVD. You can even put a copy of Ghost on the
> > CD/DVD. Then you can easily restore right from the disk if you have to. A
> > basic install of the old NT4 Workstation I've restored using a CD took
> > only
> > 2.5 minutes once the process began. That is how I rebuild our old NT
> > machines and I never have to worry about hunting down old device drivers
> > and
> > stuff.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
> > www.wandtv.com
> >
> >
> > "chrissssss.........." <chris@newsgroupinfo.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in
> > message
> > news:cqcii4$f2j$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
> >> Please let me add that my computer is for home use only and is not
> >> networked.
> >> I'm using Windows XP with SP2.
> >> My external hard drive has a USB 2 connection.
> >> Cheers, Chrissss......
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>

Edward
Thu Dec 23 01:18:24 CST 2004


"chrissssss.........." <chris@newsgroupinfo.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:cqcgkm$djk$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Can anyone recommend which of the two programmmes in the subject line is
> the easiest and most reliable?
> I hope to back-up my entire hard drive contents to an external hard drive
> so I can "re-install" if things go badly wrong.
> I'm looking for ease of use and reliability only.
> Any help appreciated.
> Thanks Chrisss.......
There is nothing to choose betwen the two programs. I prefer True Image as
it always has been far more user friendly although I believe the more recent
versions of Ghost have been playing 'catch up'. From a functional point of
view both will do what you want.

chrissssss
Thu Dec 23 09:28:24 CST 2004

Yes indeed. I want every single thing on my C drive to be saved.
I have been doing backups for My Docs, e-mails etc, for ages, but have
always found it a nightmare re-installing all my programmmes and settings
etc. So I'm hoping to be able to start from scratch in one simple operation
to set up my computer the way it was before the last disaster!
Cheers, Chrissss.....


"Jose Jarabo" <JoseJarabo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DBBCCE2A-7970-4BA3-8362-1292C3DF6F8C@microsoft.com...
> yes you can.. However Im inclined to ask.. This is so you have a copy of
> your
> OS with your program files installed right?
>
> "chrissssss.........." wrote:
>
>> Thanks Phil,
>> I have never been keen on writing to CDs or DVDs as I have found them
>> unreliable. That's why I really want to save everything to my external
>> hard
>> drive. Can I still do this?
>> Chrisss......
>>
>>
>> "Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
>> news:uDkL47F6EHA.3708@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> >I still vote for Ghost, too. Save your drive to a Ghost Image file and
>> >burn
>> > the image file to a CD or DVD. You can even put a copy of Ghost on the
>> > CD/DVD. Then you can easily restore right from the disk if you have to.
>> > A
>> > basic install of the old NT4 Workstation I've restored using a CD took
>> > only
>> > 2.5 minutes once the process began. That is how I rebuild our old NT
>> > machines and I never have to worry about hunting down old device
>> > drivers
>> > and
>> > stuff.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
>> > www.wandtv.com
>> >
>> >
>> > "chrissssss.........." <chris@newsgroupinfo.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in
>> > message
>> > news:cqcii4$f2j$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> >> Please let me add that my computer is for home use only and is not
>> >> networked.
>> >> I'm using Windows XP with SP2.
>> >> My external hard drive has a USB 2 connection.
>> >> Cheers, Chrissss......
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>

Lanwench
Sun Jan 02 18:18:52 CST 2005

chrissssss.......... wrote:
> Yes indeed. I want every single thing on my C drive to be saved.
> I have been doing backups for My Docs, e-mails etc, for ages, but have
> always found it a nightmare re-installing all my programmmes and
> settings etc. So I'm hoping to be able to start from scratch in one
> simple operation to set up my computer the way it was before the last
> disaster!
> Cheers, Chrissss.....

The nice thing about Acronis is that it's really simple to "open" the backup
& mount it as a virtual drive - and extract/restore only specific things if
you want them. I don't know whether this is possible with Ghost - I have
only ever used Ghost's corporate version for mass workstation rollouts.

>
>
> "Jose Jarabo" <JoseJarabo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:DBBCCE2A-7970-4BA3-8362-1292C3DF6F8C@microsoft.com...
>> yes you can.. However Im inclined to ask.. This is so you have a
>> copy of your
>> OS with your program files installed right?
>>
>> "chrissssss.........." wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Phil,
>>> I have never been keen on writing to CDs or DVDs as I have found
>>> them unreliable. That's why I really want to save everything to my
>>> external hard
>>> drive. Can I still do this?
>>> Chrisss......
>>>
>>>
>>> "Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
>>> news:uDkL47F6EHA.3708@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>>> I still vote for Ghost, too. Save your drive to a Ghost Image
>>>> file and burn
>>>> the image file to a CD or DVD. You can even put a copy of Ghost on
>>>> the CD/DVD. Then you can easily restore right from the disk if you
>>>> have to. A
>>>> basic install of the old NT4 Workstation I've restored using a CD
>>>> took only
>>>> 2.5 minutes once the process began. That is how I rebuild our old
>>>> NT machines and I never have to worry about hunting down old device
>>>> drivers
>>>> and
>>>> stuff.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
>>>> www.wandtv.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "chrissssss.........." <chris@newsgroupinfo.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in
>>>> message
>>>> news:cqcii4$f2j$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
>>>>> Please let me add that my computer is for home use only and is not
>>>>> networked.
>>>>> I'm using Windows XP with SP2.
>>>>> My external hard drive has a USB 2 connection.
>>>>> Cheers, Chrissss......