Topic awaiting preservation: ghosting/imaging software.

howdy.

i like to clean up my pc every now and then (ie toast the bugger, and re-install), but don't like re-installing everything.

now, i know that there are some good imaging or ghosting software items out there, that can take a snapshot of your hd, and burn it to a cd (or 2), so the next time, you can simply boot from the cd, and it'll clean up your HD for you.

my question is - which software titles do you recommend? are there any good quality freeware ones out there?

the only software titles i know of are norton ghost (i think), and InstantRecovery Personal Edition 4.1 ($45, shareware)

any other suggestions?

reitsma

My company uses Norton Ghost to image the drives on $250,000 systems. It must be sorta decent.

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burn it to a cd (or 2)

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I wish thats all it took for my system. My fresh install with Operating System and Applications is 9 GB.

I use Drive Image 2002, from Powerquest. I just love it. It does what you need and more. But it's not free.

[This message has been edited by viol (edited 08-20-2003).]

Paragon Drive Copy 5 or above is a good choice too

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Regards,
Elias

or most 'on cdrom' linuxes can do it as well.
but you'd have to do some climbing to get it onto cdr, instead of say, a network drive.

I started an FAQ on this:

:FAQ: Ghosting/backup software

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Remote Installation Services (RIS), along with Software Update Services (SUS), and SMS - all from Microsoft, are what we use for everything. We've done thousands of machines....

I've used Ghost as well, but that lacks the flexibility of the above mentioned scenario.

I had a quick nose around for free backup/ghost software and found:

BackupMaker
http://www.backupmaker.com/
http://www.topdownloads.net/software/view.php?id=10711

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Abakt
http://www.xs4all.nl/~edienske/abakt/

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Back4Win
http://www.alistairgeorge.com/b4win/

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QuikSync LE
http://www.iomega.com/global/index.jsp
http://www.tucows.com/preview/240459.html

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And for the ultimate backup - why not send it to the moon:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1200791,00.asp

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