He-heh, just a few days ago I cloned a laptop with Vista, using Ghost v10.
The user wasn't convinced it actually worked, until I erased his entire HDD,
and then ghosted it back from the DVD.
As impressive the age of Ghost might appear to some, it's still the #1 cloning
util.
All the faults and malfunction I've seen so far, can be directly related to not reading and understanding the 'Fine Maunal', which appears to be a somewhat ancient
dicipline nowadays.
Back in '94 I went completely off the world for two days to learn how fdisk works. E.g. in '97 I did the same, only in five days, to learn how Ghost works. And so the
story continues...
Fact: Binary Ghost version +10 ran from CD-ROM will clone anything you want it to clone. Ghost does not distinguish between the color of your T-shirt or your operating
system, Fista...ehhh, sorry, Vista included. It's all in the manual ;)
It even clones a Mac/BSD system perfectly, if used correctly.
All the whining about this tiny programme must be that some people at some time have found out that it's the absolute cloning standard, and then began recommending it to
others. Those "others" didn't bother to read the fine print (a.k.a. the Manual), and hence is left into the eternal, bottomless abyss, without any sign of forgiveness.
OK, I'm just guessing here ;)
//soren
FORC5 wrote:
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
