Ghosting to a single CD

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ishinryu · #1 Post by **ishinryu** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:36 am

Has anyone successfully managed to Ghost an X31 system partition to a single CD? I have XP Home with SP2 and removed the i386 folder but the Ghost image still took 3 CDs albeit the 3rd contained just a fragment.

#2 Post by **BillMorrow** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:08 am

can you do a backup to a HDD on another machine..
on the LAN ?

and have you tried acronis trueimage..?
for backups..?!

ishinryu · #3 Post by **ishinryu** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:21 am

morrow wrote:can you do a backup to a HDD on another machine..
on the LAN ?

I can either via LAN or Wireless LAN but how does that help?

and have you tried acronis trueimage..?
for backups..?!

Not yet. What advantages does it offer over Norton Ghost?

selvan777 · #4 Post by **selvan777** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:50 pm

Have you tried a more compressed image?

The Ghost switches for compression is Z1 thru Z9

Z1 = least compressed & fastest image creation
Z9 = most compressed & slowest image creation

ishinryu · #5 Post by **ishinryu** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:45 pm

Never used the switches as I thought the GUI provided the same functionality. I am offered No, Fast and High (compression) so I chose High. Are you suggesting that there is an even higher compression ratio?

#6 Post by **BillMorrow** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:54 pm

ishinryu wrote:
morrow wrote:can you do a backup to a HDD on another machine..
on the LAN ?
I can either via LAN or Wireless LAN but how does that help?

and have you tried acronis trueimage..?
for backups..?!
Not yet. What advantages does it offer over Norton Ghost?

backing up to a LAN means there is not a limitation on size of the backup..

true image seems to be much more flexible than ghost ver. 8..
i have not bothered yet with ghost ver. 9, yet..

true image will hand you a bootable clone image with XP SP2..
ghost ver. 8 does not..
something to do wuith two boot sectors or something..

ishinryu · #7 Post by **ishinryu** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:59 am

Sorry but I may have confused you - I want to fit the image onto a SINGLE CD.

MadeInJapan · #8 Post by **MadeInJapan** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:00 am

In regards to Acronis TrueImage, can I use version 6 to clone hidden partitions with it by booting with a CD or USB key? A friend of mine has that version but maybe it's to old to do that...if anyone knows, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know. Thanks in advance.

selvan777 · #9 Post by **selvan777** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:54 am

ishinryu wrote:Are you suggesting that there is an even higher compression ratio?

I don't know how it compares to the GUI but I do know that the Z9 switch is the max, give it a try. At worst it's a wasted CD and time.

selvan777 · #10 Post by **selvan777** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:02 am

MadeInJapan wrote:In regards to Acronis TrueImage, can I use version 6 to clone hidden partitions with it by booting with a CD or USB key?

Don't know about v6 but in v8 it can. In v8, using a CD to boot and before the image begins, I can see the hidden partition in the list of partitions to select for the image.

P.S. I do believe upgrades of Acronis TI are free.

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