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| Thread ID: 139299 | 2015-04-09 20:37:00 | Norton Ghost is gone, Windows 8 (apparently) cant 'ghost' - what to do??? Advise pliz | Aporosa (5671) | Press F1 |
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| 1398284 | 2015-04-10 03:29:00 | I went with active@ because win7 home pre won't image over a network. Will Win8.1 and Win10 have that option? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1398285 | 2015-04-10 03:41:00 | If nothing else works, you can image *any* drive at sector level - the only problem is you can't resize it, and you have to waste time copying all the free space too. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1398286 | 2015-04-10 04:21:00 | I went with active@ because win7 home pre won't image over a network. Will Win8.1 and Win10 have that option? Windows 8.1 Pro and above has the option to backup to a Network Location, not to sure if the home/Standard versions do or not. Cant check as the only 8.1 Std I have here is on a laptop that's in a million pieces :D One thing I hate about the inbuilt W8.1 ( or 7) is you cant put a image back to a smaller drive. Meaning if you have a 1TB drive with lets say 300GB used, and you make a W8.1 Image by the inbuilt, you HAVE to have either a 1TB or larger drive to restore it to. If you try with a 500GB drive, even though theres plenty of room available Windows image says not enough capacity (or similar wording). dugimodo mentioned it earlier. Where as Active @ no problems about drive capacity, as long as the drive is big enough it will lay it back down. Personally I only use Active to back up customers drives to an external USB before reinstalling or working on if required. Where is becomes "interesting" is when you have a name brand computer like HP's with their 7-8 partitions of all different formats, sometimes it wont work.:waughh: On my own I do it one of two ways. Either Via WHS (Windows Home Server) OR on any fresh install I do the install, update, install any programs, then make a image / .wim file and if its required to take back to the start simply pull the .wim file back via a PXE boot (network Boot) BUT you need a Server to do it, I'm using Server 2012R2. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1398287 | 2015-04-11 10:56:00 | I always use Acronis 11 or Acronis Universal, whichever suits best. Never had any problems. *Will install to any drive/partition so long as it is big enough. *Will create an image from within Windows. *Creates a boot disk with a copy of Acronis on it. *You can mount an Image like a drive if you only require to restore individual folders/files. *You can check the Image file for errors after creating it. *Acronis Universal restores to another machine. *Very reasonable price. *Much faster than Ghost and makes smaller files. |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 1398288 | 2015-04-11 11:15:00 | I always use Acronis 11 or Acronis Universal, whichever suits best. Never had any problems. *Will install to any drive/partition so long as it is big enough. *Will create an image from within Windows. *Creates a boot disk with a copy of Acronis on it. *You can mount an Image like a drive if you only require to restore individual folders/files. *You can check the Image file for errors after creating it. *Acronis Universal restores to another machine. *Very reasonable price. *Much faster than Ghost and makes smaller files. Just curious ---- How many times have you actually put a image back ? Not just check to make sure its says its OK but actually made sure 100% it has worked ? I've personally seen it happen several times from various customers as well as done myself, all the checks say it was OK, but when it was actually needed it doesn't work. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1398289 | 2015-04-11 11:26:00 | Just curious ---- How many times have you actually put a image back ? Not just check to make sure its says its OK but actually made sure 100% it has worked ? I've personally seen it happen several times from various customers as well as done myself, all the checks say it was OK, but when it was actually needed it doesn't work. Quite often. A couple of weeks ago I restored Windows 3 times after a bad attack from some rogue software. I have also serviced many computers over the years and always made a back up with Acronis & only once did I have a failure. On my own computers I back up every time I make any major changes, or do a virus scan, so a failure wouldn't matter much. |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 1398290 | 2015-04-11 21:12:00 | How's Ease US? They have a free version. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1398291 | 2015-04-11 23:33:00 | Thanks dugimodo... will follow your advise re Active@, sounds good. You are a champ!! Apo | Aporosa (5671) | ||
| 1398292 | 2015-04-11 23:38:00 | Quite often. A couple of weeks ago I restored Windows 3 times after a bad attack from some rogue software. I have also serviced many computers over the years and always made a back up with Acronis & only once did I have a failure. On my own computers I back up every time I make any major changes, or do a virus scan, so a failure wouldn't matter much. You must be one of the lucky ones. Have one customer who did regular backups and ran the checks, but when the HDD failed every single backup was corrupted, Acronis simply said nothing they could do she should have tried putting the backups back before they were needed. I've also had a few times images say they worked yet didn't ( when backing up customers drives) other times its worked fine. |
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