Text 4656, 56 rader
Skriven 2005-03-07 22:19:13 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 4643 av Jeff Guerdat (1:106/2000.0)
Ärende: drive copy
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 JG> After all the words that have been spent on duplicating a hard drive, I
 JG> started looking into what I needed for my home computer.  I just ordered 3
 JG> 80GB SATA drives to use on the built-in Promise RAID controller.  Welp,
 JG> Ghost
 JG> 8 has a problem with my system - it get to the graphical screen where it
 JG> should display a welcome/registered-to screen but hangs HARD.  It may be
 JG> due
 JG> to trying to figure out my SATA DVD writer - Ghost has no explicit support
 JG> for
 JG> SATA although it seems to appear as an IDE device to the computer and XP.
 JG> When I receive the drives, I may pull the cable off the DVD writer and see
 JG> if
 JG> that helps.  Of course, the RAID controller may then give it fits.

 JG> Assuming it's dead in the water, my only other owned option is to use the
 JG> disaster recovery capability of my backup software.  That's fine but takes
 JG> more time than a simple Ghost operation.  Short of buying new software
 JG> (which
 JG> may or may not work), does anyone have any suggestions?  The drive is
 JG> using
 JG> NTFS so I need something that will work with that.  It'd be great to do a
 JG> disk-to-disk copy of any sort (Ghost's automatic resizing of the partition
 JG> would simplify life a tad).

 JG> I'm not SOL but I was hoping for an easier solution.  I looked at the
 JG> trial
 JG> version of True Image but it's limited in trial form (won't do a system
 JG> disk).

 JG> Suggestions?

That's what I don't like about some trial versions.  The True Image 8.0
trial is cripple ware which is why I never recommend downloading it to test
it out.  Too bad because it's an excellent application, easier to use than
Ghost.   Also, I don't know if it'll support your SATA hardware devices.  It
says nothing about SATA in the documentation.

The next best thing I can suggest to you is to give Image for Windows\DOS or
BootIt Next Generation (includes a copy of Image for DOS) a try.  Their
trial versions are fully functional for 30 days and can be downloaded from
here:

www.terabyteunlimited.com

Again, I don't know if it does SATA devices.  However, the folks at Terabyte
Unlimited provide excellent support and will answer your questions via EMail
or on their support forum.  You don't have to be a registered user to ask
for support.

Regards.

chscag@gmail.com

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