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Thread ID: 20415	2002-06-04 22:45:00	Drive imaging software?	Guest (0)	Press F1

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52463	2002-06-04 22:45:00	Time to do some fiddling on the ole computer. However, as apposed to reloading everything and then updating all drivers etc (a real pain), I suppose I should invest in a drive imaging programme. Which, in your opinion, is the best (or even, are there any freeware or shareware programmes?) TIA Shroeder	Guest (0)
52464	2002-06-05 09:59:00	Schroeder, First, read the article in this months PC World - there is a comparision of imaging software on pg 105. I have used both Nortonn Ghost 2002 and PowerQuest Drive Image v5, and 2002. Early versions of Drive Image seemed harder to use (this was most likely due to inexperience). I thus settled for Norton Ghost. I liked this because once I had my boot disc setup how I liked, it was a simple process to backup my various drives on a regular basis. I recently got to try the new Drive Image (2002). This software is great. It is esay to use, and more dynamic/flexible to change than Ghost. It has a nicer UI. Compression seems better too, but I have yet to confirm this. It is alot easier to image to CD-R than ghost. It takes about three to four times as long as ghost did, but it checks the disk first, and verifies the image afterwards (about 50% of the total time it takes to write the image is taken up by image verification). Ghost did not do this, you had to rely on it to work. Drive Image will also check that a spanned image is able to be put back together and expanded before it finishes writing the image. Thus, it is much more worthwhile, even if it means waiting 30 minutes instead of 7. Finally, ghost requires you to boot using it's boot disc to perform all operations, whilst Drive Image letsyou do all the configuration in windows, and then reboots itself (you can schedule when) and performs all operations with user input only required to change discs if writing to CD-R. When finished, Drive Image reboots to windows. Drive Image 2002 was not tested by PCWorld (they tested version 5), but it reigns supreme for the same reasons they chose version 5 as the winner. (I don't know why Power Quest told PCWorld that it's latest version works entirely within windows - it doesn't - even when not writing the partition with the OS on it.) G P	Guest (0)
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