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Gobbles
30 Sep 2003, 6:12pm
anyone know if there is a good freeware or shareware ghosting software...

I have no scruples... or should I just "download" one... :buck: :wtf:
GHoosdum
30 Sep 2003, 6:22pm
Norton ghost is good; you can get Norton SystemWorks Professional 2003 for $59 from Newegg...
leishi85
30 Sep 2003, 7:54pm
most motherboard come with a CD that has a ghost utility on it,. check your cd from the motherboard box.
Gobbles
30 Sep 2003, 8:50pm
lol.... hehehehe

its an abit kt7 board and its several years old... No such luck there... I wish you were correct however...

I guess thats just one of them software packages that there is no freeware for... :\
Mt_Goat
30 Sep 2003, 9:23pm
An interesting note:

I have noticed for some time that you can get most of the Norton 2003 stuff fairly cheap right now except Ghost. Why is that?
leishi85
30 Sep 2003, 9:35pm
i think ghosting utility are most time used big big company or schools or the likes,
that's why they seel it for more.
Mt_Goat
30 Sep 2003, 9:48pm
leishi85

What I meant was System Works, Ghost and Internet Security all have close to the same MSRP and I have been seeing System Works and Internet Security on sale real cheap but no one has budged on the Ghost pricing.
Shorty
30 Sep 2003, 10:01pm
DrvImagerXP (http://www.softnews.ro/public/cat/13/2/13-2-39.shtml) is a freeware drive imaging tool :)

DrvImagerXP creates and restores drive images of FAT32 and NTFS partitions for the Windows2000/XP operating systems.

It makes backups of your partitions, but does not copy file-by-file, it doesn't know anything about files!. It creates a mirror image (but not reversed) of a partition by coping the sector bytes on the partition. And it does this very fast! You can create images of different operating system setups and swap them out in just minutes!

For example, you can install XP on partition C:, then use it for a few days, setting all your options, installing your favorite programs with their options, etc. Now that you have the perfect system, you can use DrvImagerXP to create an image of your C: drive, and if you have other partitions (D:, E:, etc) you can create images of those too. Later, when you feel you would like a fresh system, restore the images and your system will be identical, in every respect, to the way it was when you created the images.

You can create setups with completely different operating systems and swap them out at will in minutes! It does the same thing as commercial programs costing $60-$70, but it's free, and updates are just a click away!
Gobbles
30 Sep 2003, 10:22pm
Shorty u da bomb....

Gob
Shorty
30 Sep 2003, 10:27pm
:D
Enverex
30 Sep 2003, 10:38pm
I have been searching for the last half our for Norton Ghost that came on my Mobo CD as it is only 400KB, but to no avail.

NS
Gargoyle
30 Sep 2003, 10:43pm
Sweet! I think Ghost came with my mobo, but I lost it a long time ago. Now I can back up my shiznat and mess with my RAID some more :D