Re: Disk clone tools

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From: Tony Marziano MCSE, MBCS BEng(Hons) (TonyMarzianoMCSEMBCSBEngHons_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:21:02 -0800

Though VMWare is an excellent development tool in building environments to
test your software, one thing you have to remember is that however your
software behaves in a 'virtual' environment may not be true in a 'real'
environment. If you hit bugs under VMWare, this may not be true in a real
'physical' environment.
I would consider something like Ghost 2003 or PartitionImagine. Heres a link:

http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/backupandimage.shtml
Hope this helps

"Jeremy Church" wrote:

> I agree with John. When I first saw VMWare, software testing was the first
> thing that came to my mind. A nice beefy computer with several OS images on
> it and you would have a really nice software test computer.
>
> "John Toner [MVP]" <jtoner@DIE.SPAM.DIE.mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:eR0lA5nJFHA.2628@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > I think you might want to look at VMWare again. VMWare lets you take a
> > snapshot of your current configuration and you can revert the config back
> to
> > the good snapshot at any time. Basically, you would install different
> > virtual machines (one for 98, 2000, 2003) and get them to the point where
> > you'd take a clean snapshot for each. Then you add software or blow them
> up
> > however you'd like and you can always revert back to the snapshot.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John
> >
> >
> > "Maximus" <maximus@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:%23e3nBmnJFHA.1304@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am running a small software shop (1 person). I just get the
> development
> > > done and need to test it against a couple of operating systems (starting
> > > from Windows 98 to Win2003).
> > >
> > > The product installer may update the system, thus it is important to
> > recover
> > > the system back to the initial installation state before the testing.
> > VMWare
> > > is not a good solution since I have to reinstall the system over and
> over
> > > again.
> > >
> > > My current idea is to set up a computer with two disks. The disk C holds
> > the
> > > operating system and disk D holds the disk images of C. Each image file
> > > corresponds to a copy of Operating System. Then I can use a disk clone
> > tool
> > > to clone the different copies of C into a disk file in disk D and load
> the
> > > image back.
> > >
> > > I am disappointed to find that the Ghost 9.0 does not support Windows 98
> > and
> > > Windows 2003 server. I need a tool able to clone the disk under Win98,
> > WinXP
> > > and 2003.
> > >
> > > Anyone has done this before and what the best tool is?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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