Comments on: nowarez http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2004/03/25/nowarez/ Musing on the present. Reminiscing about the past. Posturing for the future. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:57:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pyuterman http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2004/03/25/nowarez/comment-page-1/#comment-130723 Pyuterman Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:48:21 +0000 http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/?p=156#comment-130723 or reason number four of why you won't uninstall Ghost...you are incorrect!! There is a program called Drive Image XML that is completely free and works flawlessly. I am an IT professional and have to use Ghost for work reasons, but for personal use, I actually prefer Acronis TrueImage (the most recent version is equal if not better to Ghost in numerous ways) Drive Image XML saves in Microsoft's native .XML format. But here's the catch. (ah haaa!! see, there's a catch) You can CREATE the backups from a live system, but in order to RESTORE a saved image to a laptop, you cannot boot from the drive you wish to restore. The way around this is to boot from a Windows Preinstalled Environment CD...if you are not familiar with BartPE, look it up online and go to the site. Download PE Builder and use it with your original Windows disk (the DriveImage XML site also has the BartPE plugin for their software available for download...you will need it too)to create your bootable Imaging CD. Now you can you Drive Image XML to restore the saved image I know this seems like a lot of steps, but the program works like a charm if you do. The saved image(s) are normally larger than the ones Ghost Makes, but so far they have been much more stable and I hae not had a single corruption. In fact, I just used my Bart PE to make an image of some machines at work just to have on hand in case my ghost images crap out on me. Look into it!! or reason number four of why you won’t uninstall Ghost…you are incorrect!! There is a program called Drive Image XML that is completely free and works flawlessly. I am an IT professional and have to use Ghost for work reasons, but for personal use, I actually prefer Acronis TrueImage (the most recent version is equal if not better to Ghost in numerous ways) Drive Image XML saves in Microsoft’s native .XML format.

But here’s the catch. (ah haaa!! see, there’s a catch)

You can CREATE the backups from a live system, but in order to RESTORE a saved image to a laptop, you cannot boot from the drive you wish to restore. The way around this is to boot from a Windows Preinstalled Environment CD…if you are not familiar with BartPE, look it up online and go to the site. Download PE Builder and use it with your original Windows disk (the DriveImage XML site also has the BartPE plugin for their software available for download…you will need it too)to create your bootable Imaging CD. Now you can you Drive Image XML to restore the saved image

I know this seems like a lot of steps, but the program works like a charm if you do. The saved image(s) are normally larger than the ones Ghost Makes, but so far they have been much more stable and I hae not had a single corruption. In fact, I just used my Bart PE to make an image of some machines at work just to have on hand in case my ghost images crap out on me.

Look into it!!

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