Re: Any *real* experience in *restoring* an NTFS root partition using Ghost 9, or any similar backup system?

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From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 02:42:59 -0500

Product activation is nothing like in Windows XP or Symantec products.

With Ghost 9.0 the whole process stays on your computer. You can even do it
while you have your internet connection deactivated. It is NOT a problem at
all. 

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Regards,
Richard Urban
aka   Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Rock" <rock@mail.nospam.net> wrote in message 
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> Juan I. Cahis wrote:
>
>> Dear friends:
>>
>> I am very skeptic about the reliability of the new, pure Windows
>> partition imaging software, like Ghost 9.0 and others.
>>
>> Now, I am very happy doing a backup every month of my computer using
>> Ghost 9. But, can I trust on it, or the old MsDos based partition
>> imaging software, like Ghost 2003 and others, were more reliable?
>>
>> Do you have any *real* experience in *restoring* an NTFS root
>> partition from Ghost 9 images?
>>
>> Did you have any problem with any application after the restore
>> process? What happened with applications, or processes, that were
>> running during the backup process?
>>
>> Was the old MsDos Ghost 2003 more reliable as a result of its "static"
>> backup process?
>>
>> Any hint?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Juan I. Cahis
>> Santiago de Chile (South America)
>> Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!
>
> I have and currently do use Drive Image 7, which is what Ghost 9.0 is 
> based on, to make an image from within windows.  I have used it to restore 
> all my drives in sequence with no problems.  Unfortunately I think Ghost 9 
> includes product activation though on the good side it does have some 
> improvements over DI 7 allowing incremental images.  But in any event DI 7 
> has worked fine for me.
>

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