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Looking for advice on PC Cloning?
I finally have enough of the same model computers where I can start to think
about cloning... I found this review and wanted to see if anyone has any advice on what I should use. http://disk-imaging-software-review.toptenreviews.com I've used "Norton Ghost" a few years back, it worked well and I suspect it's been updated since I used it... The Paragon and Norton Ghost both have a Change SID option. When I used Ghost before I used a Microsoft utility SysPrep, I believe it wiped the SID and then I would make a copy of the disk\partition... Any real world advice for todays world? Any considerations for Windows 7? I'm currently running XP Pro but will soon add some 7 machines. Any advice would be appreciated! Kelvin |
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Looking for advice on PC Cloning?
people have their own choices I use Acronis True Image for cloning.
"Kelvin" wrote: I finally have enough of the same model computers where I can start to think about cloning... I found this review and wanted to see if anyone has any advice on what I should use. http://disk-imaging-software-review.toptenreviews.com I've used "Norton Ghost" a few years back, it worked well and I suspect it's been updated since I used it... The Paragon and Norton Ghost both have a Change SID option. When I used Ghost before I used a Microsoft utility SysPrep, I believe it wiped the SID and then I would make a copy of the disk\partition... Any real world advice for todays world? Any considerations for Windows 7? I'm currently running XP Pro but will soon add some 7 machines. Any advice would be appreciated! Kelvin . |
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Looking for advice on PC Cloning?
"Kelvin" wrote in message ... I finally have enough of the same model computers where I can start to think about cloning... I found this review and wanted to see if anyone has any advice on what I should use. http://disk-imaging-software-review.toptenreviews.com I've used "Norton Ghost" a few years back, it worked well and I suspect it's been updated since I used it... The Paragon and Norton Ghost both have a Change SID option. When I used Ghost before I used a Microsoft utility SysPrep, I believe it wiped the SID and then I would make a copy of the disk\partition... Any real world advice for todays world? Any considerations for Windows 7? I'm currently running XP Pro but will soon add some 7 machines. Any advice would be appreciated! Kelvin I've used - and relied on - Acronis TrueImage for years with no problems at all. I moved to it at a time when Ghost could not recognise the external disks I was using. I quite frequently use True Image to take safety images of systems I'm about to work on. It's fast and I am sure that I can recover any data should things go wrong. |
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Looking for advice on PC Cloning?
I would continue using Norton Ghost and the latest version is Norton Ghost
15. This is a fantastic product and one feature I like most is cold cloning of HD and backups of files without installing Ghost on your system. Ideal if you have a dead hard disk which you can't boot up with Windows. You can download a trial version from Symantec website but you don't get the recovery CD for it. You should know their website because you have used Ghost already. hth "Kelvin" wrote in message ... I finally have enough of the same model computers where I can start to think about cloning... I found this review and wanted to see if anyone has any advice on what I should use. http://disk-imaging-software-review.toptenreviews.com I've used "Norton Ghost" a few years back, it worked well and I suspect it's been updated since I used it... The Paragon and Norton Ghost both have a Change SID option. When I used Ghost before I used a Microsoft utility SysPrep, I believe it wiped the SID and then I would make a copy of the disk\partition... Any real world advice for todays world? Any considerations for Windows 7? I'm currently running XP Pro but will soon add some 7 machines. Any advice would be appreciated! Kelvin |
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Looking for advice on PC Cloning?
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Kelvin typed: I finally have enough of the same model computers where I can start to think about cloning... I found this review and wanted to see if anyone has any advice on what I should use. http://disk-imaging-software-review.toptenreviews.com I've used "Norton Ghost" a few years back, it worked well and I suspect it's been updated since I used it... The Paragon and Norton Ghost both have a Change SID option. When I used Ghost before I used a Microsoft utility SysPrep, I believe it wiped the SID and then I would make a copy of the disk\partition... Any real world advice for todays world? Any considerations for Windows 7? I'm currently running XP Pro but will soon add some 7 machines. Any advice would be appreciated! Kelvin If all you want is cloning and not imaging, Casper is a decent little app. Just to clarify, you DO know that cloning a hard disk doesn't make it usable for any other machine unless it has identical hardware, right? If you meant Backup or disk imaging, then Ghost and Acronis True Image seem to be the top two. Personally I find Ghost a little easier to use and better bells & whistels, but ymmv. There are one or two free disk imaging progs too but I don't use them so don't have links handy. If you're tech minded, BootItNG is decent too and might still have a free version; haven't looked in ages. As for win 7 I'm avoiding it although my machine is win7 capable. I had them preinstall XP SP3 instead though. Win 7 is just Vista with a few default changes and a couple minor fixes; not very impressed with it. Ymmv of course. HTH, Twayne |
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Looking for advice on PC Cloning?
I've used Sysprep in the past to remove the SID so I could apply the image
to other hardware... I suspect that woul still be the case... Kelvin "Twayne" wrote in message ... In , Kelvin typed: I finally have enough of the same model computers where I can start to think about cloning... I found this review and wanted to see if anyone has any advice on what I should use. http://disk-imaging-software-review.toptenreviews.com I've used "Norton Ghost" a few years back, it worked well and I suspect it's been updated since I used it... The Paragon and Norton Ghost both have a Change SID option. When I used Ghost before I used a Microsoft utility SysPrep, I believe it wiped the SID and then I would make a copy of the disk\partition... Any real world advice for todays world? Any considerations for Windows 7? I'm currently running XP Pro but will soon add some 7 machines. Any advice would be appreciated! Kelvin If all you want is cloning and not imaging, Casper is a decent little app. Just to clarify, you DO know that cloning a hard disk doesn't make it usable for any other machine unless it has identical hardware, right? If you meant Backup or disk imaging, then Ghost and Acronis True Image seem to be the top two. Personally I find Ghost a little easier to use and better bells & whistels, but ymmv. There are one or two free disk imaging progs too but I don't use them so don't have links handy. If you're tech minded, BootItNG is decent too and might still have a free version; haven't looked in ages. As for win 7 I'm avoiding it although my machine is win7 capable. I had them preinstall XP SP3 instead though. Win 7 is just Vista with a few default changes and a couple minor fixes; not very impressed with it. Ymmv of course. HTH, Twayne |
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