499194, RE: Imaging Software
Posted by RayNY2E, Mon Feb-16-09 02:11 AM
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Hi, I'm new to the Forum. I've been building Systems since 1984 and I Have personally tried Ghost, Acronis and a Few other Programs. I Read through all the posts soo far and saw no mention of My personal favorite Called CASPER. It used to be called Casper xp. I Wrote an article about it on The CNET Forum awhile back. Here's a Link if anyone is interested in checking it out. http://www.fssdev.com Casper . Regards from Ray..
After reading this thread I decided I should just check my imaging program TI 11 Home. I have two computers, each one has its own copy of True Image 11 Home. Although I've made backups religiously I haven't used the rescue disks so today I started both computers with rescue disks, they didn't work, while using the rescue disk one computer couldn't check the latest backup, it just froze, the other computer after booting with its rescue disk wouldn't go past the choice of checking backups for verification, it just froze. So both computers booting up with their rescue disks couldn't verify their backups but both computers while in windows mode could verify their backups as good. How reliable can this be? both computers are WinXP Pro sp3. I am waiting for a reply from Acronis but not holding my breath.
So I downloaded Macrium, on the first computer I made a backup and rescue disk, booted with the rescue disk and got the black screen and nothing more, not a good thing. I then downloaded Casper but it seems to need its own disk from what I can see, erasing everything on the disk before making a backup, I don't have an extra disk at this time.
Not a good day, now I don't know if I have a reliable backup or not.
Stan
Stan,As I Mentioned in an earlier post,just speaking from my own personal experiences using different Versions of (Norton)Ghost & Acronis in order to Give them a Fair chance over the years,Casper is MY personal hands down Choice. Ghost and Acronis both Failed me enough not to trust them. Are you trying to Backup your entire Drive to and external Drive or Just trying to Create a Bootable ISO Disc? Casper does have an ISO Disc,but i don't recall if it's available with the trial version or if it was a seperate purchase,or came with my retail purchase? I Have it here but it's over a 90 meg file! If i can be of any help to you please let me know. ** Just as a side note,The only fault i ever found with Casper (or any other disc imaging software) is if you have an HPA (host protected area) partition on your Computer,such as some of the earlier Dell Laptops with Early version of Media Direct Software,No imaging Software will copy this properly ,because it can't really "See" it. This was an old IBM Technologly carried over by Some Computer companies including Some of the Dell's. I Do have a work around for it but it's NO FUN at all. If anyone really needs to know how,let me know** Ray..
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