Re: Disk Imaging Software

In article <1145241701.013514.128120@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
lawman02766@xxxxxxxxx says...
As I often install and uninstall games, apps, drivers, etc., my
computers gets a bit sloppy in performance. I am anticipating a full
format and reinstall of XP, plus all my racing sims, sometime in the
coming weeks.

My goal this time is to format, then reinstall everything to a "basic"
level (NR2003 plus 1.1 patch, plus BGN, CTS, PTA, IROC, plus the JJ
Johnston/Superspeedway.net updates, as an example) and then do a hard
drive image or clone which will allow me to more easily "fall back" to
the pristine condition that I have right after the format.

Is there a recommendation for the software to do this? Norton Ghost 10
and True Image 9.0 seem to the be most frequently mentioned titles. Any
upside/downside to these programs that anyone wants to comment on?

Thanks.



I know people are mentioning good things about True Image, but I
wondered if anyone here had actually managed to re-install from an image
that was created of an O/S that was running at the time. What I mean
is, I have a copy of True Image 8.0 and have a dual boot system which
has meant that, prior to version 8 I had always created the image of one
O/S whilst running from the other one because the imaging software just
wouldn't let me do it any other way.

So V8 doesn't have this problem, and so I tried creating an image of XP
whilst running XP and everything went ok. However, when I came to
restore said image when I changed my HD it installed but failed to run,
stopping at the XP Welcome screen and, despite even trying a repair
install over the top, eventually I had to restore from one of my
previous backups that was created through the old method.

So, anyone actually managed to do this without issue using any Version
of True Image?

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