Re: Files and transfer Cabling

bill horne wrote:
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bill horne <redydog@xxxxxxx> wrote:



Bob Giddings wrote:



On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:14:49 -0400, bill horne <redydog@xxxxxxx>
wrote:





But hey, a clone *is* a backup. It may take 6 or 7 hours.
But if you can depend on the process working by itself, all
that happens while you sleep.

I've got an 80G disk with about 50G on it. It takes a little
over an hour - but that's across IDE, not USB.


Does Ghost automatically reformat the target disk each time? Or
does it do a file add and replace by date? IOW, does it act in
any way like a backup program, or is it simply a cloner?

It's a cloner, but it will make an image file if you want.

I haven't seen Ghost 9 or 10, so I don't what they might do in
addition to doing their thing from Windows - no dropping to DOS.
They clone a live disk - something some think may be a little
risky. I'll only go to to 9 or 10 if I'm completely unable to
get 2003 to do what I want.

I think Ghost 10 still includes Ghost 2003 as the actual clone
program. Least that's what I think I'm reading on Norton's site.
--
Frank Tabor


Yep and so is 9.0. Generally 9 and 10 are kinda like a one PC
windows executable type program. Point and click for the clueless
as we like to call them...

I don't have a copy to examine, so I can't say "not so" - but I can
say, "I don't think so", with a modicum of confidence.

Norton says:
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Includes Norton Ghost 2003 for Windows Me & 98 users
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and:
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The recovery takes longer than with the DOS-based Ghost 2003
(included in the box for Windows 98/Me machines)
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That tells me that Ghost 9 and 10 are not DOS based, but that a
copy of 2003 is included in the box.

PC Mag says:
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Norton Ghost 9.0 is based in large part on PowerQuest's Drive
Image, which Symantec acquired in late 2003
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That tells me that Ghost is not even Ghost anymore. And the few
times I tried Drive Image back in the 90's, I didn't like it,
either.

Until it proves unworkable on my laptop (works just fine on my
desktop), I'm gonna stick with 2003 which contains the original
non-Norton cloning engine. It seems Norton's contribution to the
program was mostly a GUI that starts and finishes the operation in
Windows, but the work is done in DOS with the mostly original Ghost.

I never cared for Norton's stuff, anyway. Down at the computer
store in the 90's, we used to joke that Norton's disk fixer was
just a pretty program that spun the disk, blinked lights, popped up
messages, and then declared the disk fixed. It seldom was fixed,
and we gave up on the program.

Besides, I already have Ghost 2003.


They do include it, on a separate disk. Just as if you purchased both
products separately. It's both in one box. I'm pretty sure I'm
right, as I have them in my hands.

As I said - Ghost 9 and 10 are no longer DOS-based, and they're no
longer Ghost. It's a Windows-based Powerquest Drive Image that's been
fiddled with by Norton.

I may end up having to use it - but not yet.

And Ghost(General Hardware-Oriented Software Transfer) was originally
produced by Binary Research and bought in 1998 and then fiddled with, by
Norton, the other Microsoft.

--
Frank Howell


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