The point is I'm comfortable with boot loaders and cutting up hard drives. Most of the applications I find myself needing tend to work better in Windows native but I digress. I try to tinker with Linux on a regular basis even though I usually find it frustrating/limiting. I *usually* have my slim emergency CD case and flash drives with me for anything along these lines but you never know.DriveImage XML usage:I like multi-boot systems. This way if I have to go restore their machine the pot and the noodles are already in the kitchen. I use them differently.Clonezilla usage:If I set up a laptop for a friend, desktop for dad or anything like that I'll leave a copy of Clonezilla at their place with the image. Which do you prefer? They're both established and reliable tools. Quote:Originally posted by Slimy:quote:Originally posted by MrDetermination:Free: DriveImage XML and/or Clonezilla. But I figure there's gotta be a better solution than that.Suggestions? GHO files, Using a completely different computer, etc.) It would restore about 15% of my partition, but crap out on the 002.GHO file.Interestingly enough, the Windows-based "Ghost Explorer" can mount and read the image just fine (which is what I'm doing currently to restore my partition, but I'm not convinced this is going to go well once I'm done with this slow process.)What software is better than Norton Ghost that does full snapshots?Truthfully, I've been thinking of booting into Linux and just doing something like "dd" and piping it to gzip or something. ![]() (Resizing partition, Installing to a new drive, Integrity check of all the. The partition is more than 3GB bigger than it needs to be.Long story short, I tried everything. Ghost boots to PC-DOS and promptly informs me that it can't restore the image to the partition because the partition is "too small". ![]() So I tried to restore a backup I took 2 weeks ago. This was fast and always reliable in case I needed a full system restore.Until this weekend.I decided to restore my system because it was acting really funny. I traditionally take a full snapshot of my primary drive (36GB) once a month to a second drive and then offload those 2GB image files to DVD-R or another drive. ![]() Norton Ghost 2003 used to be my infallible savior.
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