Norton Ghost

j_davies

GoofyGAT wrote:

Does it restart only when backing-up to DVD then? Because when backing up to hard drive it uses the 'hot imaging' method, doesn't it?

All I can say is that backing upto DVD with Vs 9.0 my PC restarted and all info was then burned to disk, like the old powerquest way.

energy80s

Ghost cannot operate from within Windows, it is actually a DOS based program. As XP (and now Vista) don't support DOS, Ghost has to re-boot the machine and run its own version of DOS before it can run its own backup program. Normally I boot up a 98 startup disc and then run Ghost through the DOS commands on that ( I have the Ghost files from the floppy copied onto a spare partition on my hard drive, so can actually run Ghost from the HDD in DOS mode).

albertross_2

There are two streams of development in ghost products.

The original ghost and all products upto ghost 8/2003, run in dos, or create a small virtual dos partition, and shutdown to DOS to backup.

Ghost 10 (which is derived from Powerquest drive image), runs in Windows, and doesn't have to shutdown into DOS to do a backup.

Personally I prefer the dos version, as in Windows, you are always backing up a moving target, so it's never going to be a 100% copy.


If you buy the retail version of ghost 10, 2003 comes in the box as well, so you can choose which to use.

GoofyGAT

GoofyGAT wrote:

Does it restart only when backing-up to DVD then? Because when backing up to hard drive it uses the 'hot imaging' method, doesn't it?

j_davies wrote:

All I can say is that backing upto DVD with Vs 9.0 my PC restarted and all info was then burned to disk, like the old powerquest way.

I think you realised that I asked the question to make the distinction between backing-up to hard drive & backing-up directly to DVD. rooster, didn't specify which, but I assumed s/he was referring to the former.

albertross wrote:

Ghost 10 (which is derived from Powerquest drive image), runs in Windows, and doesn't have to shutdown into DOS to do a backup...

This method of backing-up in Windows ('hot imaging') originated in v9. G