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Title: Norton Ghost Alternative
Post by: Zorchenhimer on October 31, 2007, 09:39:04 PM

Norton Ghost is a program that can copy a hard drive or partition to another hard drive or partition, making data on the two drives identical.  Is there another program out there that can do the same thing?

Title: Re: Norton Ghost Alternative
Post by: nopyo on October 31, 2007, 10:02:51 PM

What's the difference between that and copying & pasting with windows explorer?

Title: Re: Norton Ghost Alternative
Post by: sk89q on October 31, 2007, 10:22:13 PM

Because you can't restore an OS by doing that.

Title: Re: Norton Ghost Alternative
Post by: Zorchenhimer on October 31, 2007, 10:26:39 PM

Quote from: sk89q on October 31, 2007, 10:22:13 PM

Because you can't restore an OS by doing that.

Exactly.

Title: Re: Norton Ghost Alternative
Post by: KnacK on October 31, 2007, 10:58:03 PM

Taek a gander through one of my favorite web sites that I frequent hourly:

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=94

I prefer Acronis True Image instead of Ghost.  Ghost  (Symantec) is just pure evil and bloated, and you'll have hell to pay if you ever want to remove it.

You might also want to try source forge to see if there is an OSS solution as well.

Title: Re: Norton Ghost Alternative
Post by: nopyo on October 31, 2007, 11:00:44 PM

Quote from: sk89q on October 31, 2007, 10:22:13 PM

Because you can't restore an OS by doing that.

Oh ok. I back everything up on a 250GB HDD and just use the CD that the computer company gives you to reinstall the OS if needed.

Title: Re: Norton Ghost Alternative
Post by: Zorchenhimer on November 01, 2007, 12:22:13 AM

Quote from: KnacK on October 31, 2007, 10:58:03 PM

Taek a gander through one of my favorite web sites that I frequent hourly:

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=94

I prefer Acronis True Image instead of Ghost.  Ghost  (Symantec) is just pure evil and bloated, and you'll have hell to pay if you ever want to remove it.

You might also want to try source forge to see if there is an OSS solution as well.

Thanks.  I looked at source forge and found a program called Clonezilla (http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/).  It's a bit larger than I want (~90 Mb).  It also uses Linux as a base.  I don't care if it uses it, but I don't think my boss will like it.  Also Acronis True Image is about the same price as the new Norton Ghost, so I'm not sure if he will like that one either, but you never know.

I'll definitely use that site allot too.

Title: Re: Norton Ghost Alternative
Post by: y00tz on November 01, 2007, 12:24:00 AM

Oh, it's for your new job? Awesome :D

And to be clear, you need a Ghost alternative merely because Ghost is too expensive?

Note: I will delete all torrent references with extreme prejudice. /me eyes KiLo & Co.

Title: Re: Norton Ghost Alternative
Post by: KiLo on November 01, 2007, 12:27:50 AM

Zorch take a gander here (http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/).

Warning: y00tz do not click the link!!! ;D

Title: Re: Norton Ghost Alternative
Post by: Zorchenhimer on November 01, 2007, 01:09:49 AM

Quote from: y00tz on November 01, 2007, 12:24:00 AM

And to be clear, you need a Ghost alternative merely because Ghost is too expensive?

He used up his 3 licenses that he had for Norton Ghost 10, and when he tried to buy more they tried to sell him one license of Norton Ghost 12 along with the program.  He didn't like that.

Kilo, I am well aware of torrents and I don't think that would be the best route to take in this situation.  :P
I like what y00tz did to the link though.  Haha.

Title: Re: Norton Ghost Alternative
Post by: KnacK on November 01, 2007, 06:38:13 AM

Zorch,

Clonezilla is rated very high on SF.

And yes, licensing restrictions for ghost sux0rz big time.