rarely use ghost from a fdd but on occasion have to, only problems ever had wad usually the disk.drives fault.
I have boot cd's made with ghost and zap installed. Only tried once but ghost would not clone a vista install. fp At 06:51 PM 9/4/2009, Soren Poked the stick with: >If the system has no hw problems, and everything else is working OK, here's >what I see during several days of the week: > >Ghost 10 allows back up from both Win and *nix, if "copy sector-by-sector" is >selected. Creation of a boot sector on the first CD/DVD is also supported, and >it works, too. > >Here's the culprit most people experience: When running Ghost from a floppy or >from HDD it doesn't work as advertized. Nope, it doesn't, and it never has. > >But it surely does, if one runs it directly from the CD-ROM. From System Works >Pro CD, e.g. cd /support/ghost/ghost.exe > >Used this way, Ghost still kicks Acronis deeply in their semi-Greek balls ;) > >BTW, do NEVER trust a program that supports BartPE or alike for corporate use. > >"...Provides imaging with removes (ie, clone but don't copy *.tmp' or >whatever)..." someone wrote. > >Honestly, either it is an image, or it's not. Further, a clone is what the >word "clone" means: a clone, a complete copy. > >If a clone is not an excact image, it is not a clone, but instead a bunch of >mediated marketing BS. > >Personally, I'd never buy any software from a seller that cannot distinguish >between "clone" and "sort of clone", but that's probably only me ;) > >About Ghost I want to say one thing: RTFM (Read The Fine Manual). > >/soren -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Animals -- the renewable resource
