Now, SP2 has been out for months, and adds a nice layer of security and general improvements to an already rock solid OS as XP, however these people see fit to complain about a piece of software (99% of the time without RTFM), yet can't be bothered to at the very least keep their systems up to date and patched.ĪTI is by far the most advanced imaging software around. The Linux environment is stable and accommodating, and if you take your time to read threads where people complain (with the exception of the ones where their controllers are not supported by ATI yet), you will find that the problems are all self created (not reading the Manual, etc), in essence: PEBKAC, and on some ocassions the poster had the honesty and spine to admit as much.Īnother laughable matter is when a user complains about ATI and then you read "XP SP1". I can pop the boot CD and make an image in ~3 minutes using Normal compression, and restoring is even faster with TI in my experience. Instead they emulate that environment which is accomplished by Caldera DOS, which has absolutely nothing to do with MS-DOS. Neither Ghost, nor the defunct Drive Image 6 or 7 boot into DOS, as there is no layer of such to boot into in NT-based OSs. Only admitting ignorance one is able to learn. Sometimes I am appalled at the level of ignorance displayed by some posters, and I mean this in the best possible way.
Ghost 9 is an ode to bloat, and it degenerates from a buggy attempt by Powerquest to upgrade their fine product Drive Image 6 (which they had to update since it offers no support for SATA controllers at all). The original Ghost was purchased from another company since they never had the ability to develop one by their own.
You would be hard pressed to find a decent application ever developed by Symantec. It seems to me that having your disk imaged away from the vagueries of the itneraction of other programs, and the potential of having data sitting in memory not flushed to disk, make "online" imaging a risk business.īefore I try it and load yet another piece of software on my machine does True Image allow "Offline" imaging? Or at least have "offline" an option for those who have problems with "inline" Sheesh, Nortons has a Recovery Disk which boots into Win/2000/XP or something, to allow you to recover from an Image, and it nicely gives access to various drive types, USB, SCSI, IDE, with FAT or NTFS files systems or CD or DVD, so why wouldn't you use the same methodology to create the image file in the first place.
Why this thing about having the Imaging software run "online" from within Windows itself. My downtime and exposure to a upgrade event risk has been very sad. NET framework, and require defragment of the Disk and the NTFS MFT, and disabling, antivirus, firewall, tape back up software does not sit happily with me. Software that itself needs upgrades to things like the. The reason I image a disk is because I want to do an upgrade and want to be able to absolutely and totally roll it back if it doesn t work. So after three days on the Symantec Help line, have had me do more upgrades and suggestion than you could poke a stick at.
I keep getting the ubiquitous "EA39070A: The internal structure of the PQI file is invalid or unsupported" when I try to verify it. So far, I have not got one successful image from it. My starting point was to upgrade to Ghost 9.0. Has anyone found that Acronis True Image overcomes these types of problems? I don t want to just rush out and buy it to find the same problems again. I am sick of Norton Ghost and am thinking of making it a ghost. They have multiple Dell GX270's and some of them will not image at all. I also work for a company who are constantly complaining of images not burning. The Ghost image went much further, about 8Gb of image and then crashed again with the undocumented Application Error 29089. I followed the Symantec recommendation that it was possibly fragmentation, not only of files but the MFT, and following their recommendations used PerfectDisk 7.0 which defrags both files and MFT.
I tried a IDE second drive, and found that it was getting a little further, (about 2 Gb image file so far). More often than not on the NTFS MTF tables at the start. I have tried various output devices DVD, USB drive, (was a nightmare getting the USB drive to work in DOS mode), and they all would fail at various points throughout the image. Since then however I have not been able to make a successful image of my drive. I recently bought a new drive 120Gb and cloned my WinXP from a 60Gb drive and everything went fine. Generally the failure was random locking up of the computer. I have used Norton Ghost, version 2003, for the past few years and have always had the occasional frustrating imaging failure.