Standalone Disk Image Software

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tpribors · #1 Post by **tpribors** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:04 pm

I got Norton Ghost (in a bundle with anti virus) because I need to clone my drive. I was expecting the ability to boot Ghost from a CD and make an image of the drive (or of the individual partitions) into a container file on my USB external drive, swap the drive, and then put the partition images back on my new drive.

However, Ghost standalone only has the ability to RESTORE FROM the images, not create them.

Not what I wanted.

Any suggestions for alternatives?

Does Acronis True Image have this capability?

tpribors · #2 Post by **tpribors** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:11 pm

Also, the reason I'm looking for standalone is that I don't trust it to make a reliable copy of an active partition. Too much going on in the background that might get missed.

Miller88 · #3 Post by **Miller88** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:53 pm

Is there a freeware program like Norton Ghost?

DenTP4rm · #4 Post by **DenTP4rm** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:58 pm

Try Acronis True Image Home. I personally have had great experience with TI and have seen good reports from numerous users on the Forum. You can burn a bootable disk that will allow you to clone, make images and restore. Used to be you could download a trial copy. I don't have time to check the site now but the link I posted will take you there. Good luck,
DenTP4rm

#5 Post by **rkawakami** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:53 pm

tpribors wrote:I got Norton Ghost (in a bundle with anti virus) because I need to clone my drive. <snip> However, Ghost standalone only has the ability to RESTORE FROM the images, not create them.

What version of Ghost is this? My understanding is that any version of Ghost can create an image, within some limitations such as NTFS support. I use Ghost 2003's DOS boot floppy to write images onto CDs and DVDs. Those optical disks are then bootable so you don't need anything else besides a means to read them.

tbThink · #6 Post by **tbThink** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:22 am

DenTP4rm wrote:Try Acronis True Image Home. I personally have had great experience with TI and have seen good reports from numerous users on the Forum. You can burn a bootable disk that will allow you to clone, make images and restore. Used to be you could download a trial copy. I don't have time to check the site now but the link I posted will take you there. Good luck,
DenTP4rm

I second the TrueImage v11 product. $49 or so and I used it the other day and cloned my t61 to my t61p and it worked fine. I only had to reinstall the video driver after because of the different nvidia chip in each.

msb0b · #7 Post by **msb0b** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:47 am

Miller88 wrote:Is there a freeware program like Norton Ghost?

Yes, partimage will do what Ghost does. It is available on many Linux rescue CD such as the System Rescue CD. I have used it extensively with great success.

tpribors · #8 Post by **tpribors** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:22 am

rkawakami wrote:
tpribors wrote:I got Norton Ghost (in a bundle with anti virus) because I need to clone my drive. <snip> However, Ghost standalone only has the ability to RESTORE FROM the images, not create them.
What version of Ghost is this? My understanding is that any version of Ghost can create an image, within some limitations such as NTFS support. I use Ghost 2003's DOS boot floppy to write images onto CDs and DVDs. Those optical disks are then bootable so you don't need anything else besides a means to read them.

Norton Ghost 12.0 Pamphlet book and online docs don't say anything about a standalone backup mode.

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