Backup software--like GHOST

Thanks Rick, for that information.

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| Your welcome,
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| If anyone is interested to see back in 2004 all the Acronis webpages that
| were showing online for v8 back then, like System Requirements, Feature
| Details, etc, etc, ..all of these I had saved as mht offline webpages back
| in 2004, and fyc I just uploaded if anyone wants to read them.
| I imagine don't use v8 on Vista, or obviously since so many hardware
| advancements were made since 2004 there may be some hardware situations
| that this older v8 wont recognize or have drivers for, like some
| specialized SATA RAID controller cards setups, etc; however it does
| recognize SATA 1.5 Controllers with SATA 3.0 HD's just fine and I've used
| it for those circumstances many times, all well as all matters of PATA.
|
| Anyway, here's the link for the offline webpage mht's..
| http://rdchauvin.com/AcronisTrueImageV8-OfflineWebpageMHT's-2004.zip
|
| Rick
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| "William B. Lurie" wrote in message
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| Rick Chauvin wrote:
| Here's a real treat....
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| Free version of Acronis v8
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| http://www.acronis.co.uk/mag/pcpro/ati8pe
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| Rick
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| (I haven't tried filling out this form myself, since I'm already a
| registered user for all their versions anyway)
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| Thank you, Rick, I'll pass it to my buddy........
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"Planer" wrote in message


No, I typed in yours. Did you get my email?

That attitude reply was unnecessary.

My reply was meant to be helpful and surly not meant as a putdown, don't
be
so sensitive.

People make typo mistakes all the time, I know I do.

Fill out the form again and see if it will take, if it says that email is
already taken then great, so try some variances like see if you can click
for a new password, etc, etc... if all else fails then try a variance to
your name and sign up again.

Rick

"Planer" wrote in message


No, I typed in yours. Did you get my email?

That attitude reply was unnecessary.

My reply was meant to be helpful and surly not meant as a putdown, don't be
so sensitive.

People make typo mistakes all the time, I know I do.

Fill out the form again and see if it will take, if it says that email is
already taken then great, so try some variances like see if you can click
for a new password, etc, etc... if all else fails then try a variance to
your name and sign up again.

Rick

Rick Chauvin wrote:
"Planer" wrote in message


No, I typed in yours. Did you get my email?

That attitude reply was unnecessary.

My reply was meant to be helpful and surly not meant as a putdown, don't be
so sensitive.

People make typo mistakes all the time, I know I do.

Fill out the form again and see if it will take, if it says that email is
already taken then great, so try some variances like see if you can click
for a new password, etc, etc... if all else fails then try a variance to
your name and sign up again.

Rick



By the way....both I and my buddy had no trouble other than
that the download link is a bit hard to find......

Rick Chauvin wrote:
"Bill in Co." wrote in message

Or an older copy of Acronis True Image (I'm not sure if the newer
editions still work for Win98SE).

v9 is the last W98SE supported version that you can install it to, however
of course using it via its boot disk, the newer versions (v10, v11) will
image/restore anything.

Rick

OK, good to know this, Rick! I've been using the newer version on XP,
and it works great as a backup and restore method (using an external USB HD
enclosure, for the backup drive - I only turn that drive on when I make or
restore a backup).

"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
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Good friend of mine got GHOST 9 and then found
out it isn't for WIN 98. He got GHOST 2003
with it, that is for 98. But I recall seeing
suggested here, other drive imaging and restoring
packages that people find preferable to the Norton/
Symantec stuff. Could I have a few suggestions?
(I used to use PowerQuests's Drive Image 6 but
found it unwieldy in that it required their original
CD to do a Restore). Thank you.

DriveImage 6, otherwise known as DriveImage 2002, requires a pair of boot
floppy diskettes for restoration of the operating system partition. They
(floppies) are made in windows after the DI 2002 program is installed in
windows. The subsequent version of DI, 7.0, requires the use of its boot CD
for restoration of the partition it resides in. Am assuming that the boot
partition and windows partition are the same. And, am assuming the boot
media can access the media the image file was previously saved to (USB,
Firewire, ide HD connected to ide card can be probematic).

In both versions, you can restore the non-windows partition(s) without use
of the boot media.
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"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
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Good friend of mine got GHOST 9 and then found
out it isn't for WIN 98. He got GHOST 2003
with it, that is for 98. But I recall seeing
suggested here, other drive imaging and restoring
packages that people find preferable to the Norton/
Symantec stuff. Could I have a few suggestions?
(I used to use PowerQuests's Drive Image 6 but
found it unwieldy in that it required their original
CD to do a Restore). Thank you.

Someone mentioned motherboards, someone mentioned Casper, another TrueImage.
On that note, I found on an 865PE chipset board with early SATA that a
version of TrueImage created image files whose restorations were unbootable
for one reason or another. Also, with Casper 4.0, it trashed both the
source partitions and created unbootable copied partitions on the target
hard drive.
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Lil' Dave wrote:
"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...
Good friend of mine got GHOST 9 and then found
out it isn't for WIN 98. He got GHOST 2003
with it, that is for 98. But I recall seeing
suggested here, other drive imaging and restoring
packages that people find preferable to the Norton/
Symantec stuff. Could I have a few suggestions?
(I used to use PowerQuests's Drive Image 6 but
found it unwieldy in that it required their original
CD to do a Restore). Thank you.

Someone mentioned motherboards, someone mentioned Casper, another
TrueImage.
On that note, I found on an 865PE chipset board with early SATA that a
version of TrueImage created image files whose restorations were
unbootable
for one reason or another. Also, with Casper 4.0, it trashed both the
source partitions and created unbootable copied partitions on the target
hard drive.

Perhaps they would have needed a newer version of either program to handle
SATA (which is relatively new) properly, but the newer versions might not be
compatible with Win98 - so that might be a possible explanation.

On Sat, 24 May 2008 12:41:03 -0400, "William B. Lurie"
wrote:

rebel wrote:
On Sat, 24 May 2008 10:44:49 -0500, "Rick Chauvin" wrote:

Here's a real treat....

Free version of Acronis v8

http://www.acronis.co.uk/mag/pcpro/ati8pe

Rick


(I haven't tried filling out this form myself, since I'm already a
registered user for all their versions anyway)

Completing that form merely gets you a reg code - you still need to locate the
software.
You're right but also wrong, Reb. Once you are 'registered', having
registered for True Image 8.0 Personal, you just click on
Registered Products on their My Account Page on their website,
and there's a link for downloading it. Just a bit roundabout,
but not as bad as most.

Thanks for that - and to Rick as well. Have just downloaded it from their "lost
your executable?" link.

Previously I had used XXCOPY (for 98SE) but on the last occasion it really made
a mess. I was trying to transfer an laptop drive image to a larger drive, so I
ran XXCOPY on a desktop with the source and target (IDE) drives patched in. The
target drive was a total fscked up mess afterwards. So next I refreshed (FDISK
and FORMAT) the target and then used Windoze Exploder to simply drag eveything
from source to target. Following an FDISK/MBR everything was sweet.

Next time I need to do this sort of thing, it will be TI8.

Sorry to hijack the thread.

"Lil' Dave" wrote in message


Someone mentioned motherboards, someone mentioned Casper, another
TrueImage. On that note, I found on an 865PE chipset board with early
SATA that a version of TrueImage created image files whose restorations
were unbootable for one reason or another. Also, with Casper 4.0, it
trashed both the source partitions and created unbootable copied
partitions on the target hard drive.

In the beginning I was an avid powerquest Drive Image user myself.
Absolutely loved it (and still do in retrospect) ..and have and used All
their versions and at the time they never failed me - until after literally
a thousand good restores of all kinds finally came the day that DI v6
wrecked things quite nicely, and actually it was on an intel 865 board now
that you mention it (which I have three of them in operation) I realized
that I was asking too much of DI 2002 (v6) to recognize unique hardware
situations beyond its build date - which is understandable. Sure the
instances could of been a fluke of one kind or another, but I was well
aware and realized I needed something that was up to date with the times -
which really had to happen sooner or later anyway. Besides, True Image's
virtual backup image explorer compared to DI's explorer, is 1000 times
better in all ways and has to be used to appreciate the leap in
accomplishment and usable real-time benefits it offers which are too
numerable to mention.

What version of True Image did you have trouble with? True Image v8 works
well with the onboard SATA 1 interface of the D865 motherboards, but v8 and
the 865 (and beyond) does have a hard time recognizing certain brands of
onboard SATA 2 PCI Controller Cards (which again were built after the TI v8
build date too) True Image v9, v10, and v11 solve those problems
successively. Going slightly on a tangent here but because of what, imho,
problemize all software makers is the thought and push that they have to
put every frill and frosting add-on into their software trying to do
everything besides imaging, from A to Z, and therein lies the bloat and
subsequent problems that arise from that unneeded excess options that
complicate what doesn't have to be, and Acronis's latest versions are
starting to cross the line too. I'm I use these imaging programs for one
thing, which is to Manually create and restore images, or backup image file
searching, but every other cupcake frill on it I ignore and never even
click through the options... anyway I don't want to get OT on the issue.

Rick

ps, btw... I still have DI v5 and yes v6 installed on all my OS's and
revisit them from time to time.




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