Comments on: Who needs Ghost?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Oct 2002 04:41:08 +0000

Ghost, DriveImage, SavePart, (all DOS) and PartImage (Linux) will all do drive/partition to image file. Some of them will do drive to drive as well.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 23:29:58 +0000

Ghost is a real time saver.. WHich one of those other programs is good for cloning a partition to a file image? I dont just want drive to drive.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Aug 2002 06:17:24 +0000

Check out Ldzip 2.23 at http://ldzip.port5.com/
It creates a ZIP file with long filenames
in plain DOS and supports FAT16,FAT32, NTFS drives
(with NTFS driver)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Aug 2002 18:35:15 +0000

Yep, I've used xxcopy a number of times in the past. xxcopy works nicely if you just want to clone disk to disk, as long as it's a Win9x system. It's not so good for archiving, or for cloning NT/2000/XP.

I've also used Info-Zip to archive Win9x systems (the switches I used are in my book, I don't remember them offhand), but Savepart is a better option, since it'll preserve and restore all the long filenames, which Info-Zip won't necessarily do.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 23:29:52 +0000

I have used GHOST several times. I ran across a utility called XXCOPY, available at http://www.xxcopy.com/clone. It does just about any file copy operation you can think of. The /CLONE switch makes XXCOPY a free alternative to Norton Ghost and PowerQuest’s DriveImage. See if it won’t work for you.