Re: Disk imaging

Do you have the USB drivers loaded?  Or is the problem that Ghost 
2002 wont use USB at all?  I'm using ver. 7.5 that does allow USB.

Gary Kuznitz

On 12 Oct 2005 at 9:31, Jeff (Jeff Crosby <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>) commented 
about [PCTECH] Disk imaging:

> All,
> 
> I have been using Norton Ghost 2002 to make drive images of laptops before
> initially placing them in the field.  I do this image after loading all our
> software, Acrobat Reader, Office, Antivirus, etc. so if there is a 
> catastrophic
> failure in the field I have something to go back to without starting from 
> square
> 1.  Note that this is a 1-shot deal per laptop.  I don't use Ghost for routine
> backups, just this initial image as a failsafe. (Knock wood - I've not had to
> use one yet.)
> 
> The latest laptop we purchased (Dell Latitude 410) has an external USB
> attached CD-Rom which Ghost 2002 can't handle.  Ghost 9 is supposed to
> handle it, but looking at the user reviews on Amazon, there's a bazillion
> complaints about not being able to restore, especially to XP.
> 
> If you can't restore, there isn't much use to get the product . . .
> 
> Any experience with later versions of Ghost?  What else is good at this
> function?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> Jeff Crosby
> Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
> P.O. Box 13369
> Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
> 260-422-7531
> 
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> company.  Unless I say so.
> 
> 
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