Re: Norton Ghost problem

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"George" <null@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Using Norton Ghost 2003 on a Windows XP SP2 notebook.

When I try to use Backup, I get as far as the DOS screen, which
stays up 3 or 4 seconds, then returns into Windows without running
Ghost.

When I try to use Clone, all activity stopped at 39% completion,
it just sat there, and I had to use Ctrl-Alt-Del to boot back into
Windows. But worse than that, the target drive, an external drive
connected to USB, now is not accessible. Error message reads
"File or directory is corrupted and unreadable".

How can I get Ghost to make a backup or clone?

Thanks for any help.

George


George:
Sorry things didn't work out for you re Ghost 2003. By all means give the
Acronis True Image a try, especially since a trial version is available from
their website.

But I would like you to also try the Casper disk-cloning program. For a
variety of reasons (we can go into details if you're interested) we believe
it is a superior disk-cloning program. (It is not a disk-imaging program).
So if you're interest is in a disk-to-disk (or partition-to-partition)
cloning program by all means give the Casper program a try. It's a more
costly program than the Acronis one but we truly believe its superiority
warrants the extra cost.

The Casper website also a trial version available. It's at...
http://www.fssdev.com/products/free/
A new version 5 is scheduled to be released on June 10. We've worked with
the beta version of that program and it's quite similar to version 4 from
what we've seen. The user interface has been given a more "modern" look but
the overall feel of the program seems to be the same as version 4. In any
event, do give the trial version a look.
Anna


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