quick & easy drive image please?

Say you arrive at a customers house, his machine's a mess, and you want to
make a quick drive image of his system before you start tinkering under the
hood. Never know what you're going to find or what's ggoing to happen next -
right ? You may need to restore it to the way it was?
What would you install for ease of use and ease of restore - Drive Image (4
or 5) or Ghost (8 or 2003) or something else ?
thanks

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fros

> Say you arrive at a customers house, his machine's a mess, and you want
to
> make a quick drive image of his system before you start tinkering under
the
> hood. Never know what you're going to find or what's ggoing to happen
next -
> right ? You may need to restore it to the way it was?
> What would you install for ease of use and ease of restore - Drive Image
(4
> or 5) or Ghost (8 or 2003) or something else ?
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Some research tells me drive image is a little more user friendly and does
the job well and that Ghost has more features, particiularly network
options, and does the job equally well. I read further that DI is probably
better for the home or single machine setup and Ghost better for the IT pro
or business setup.
Do you agree?
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fros

I agree. Drive image is a saviour! I might run an antivirus and a spyware
remover in front of the customer before I saved an image. Maybe even a
registry clean.
I have never exprienced those tools killing a PC.
J
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"fros" <> wrote in message
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>
> > Say you arrive at a customers house, his machine's a mess, and you want
> to
> > make a quick drive image of his system before you start tinkering under
> the
> > hood. Never know what you're going to find or what's ggoing to happen
> next -
> > right ? You may need to restore it to the way it was?
> > What would you install for ease of use and ease of restore - Drive Image
> (4
> > or 5) or Ghost (8 or 2003) or something else ?
> ===============
> Some research tells me drive image is a little more user friendly and does
> the job well and that Ghost has more features, particiularly network
> options, and does the job equally well. I read further that DI is probably
> better for the home or single machine setup and Ghost better for the IT
pro
> or business setup.
> Do you agree?
> >
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> >
>
>

John D Loop

Great site.! I'll be reading many of the articles trying to teach myself.


> I agree. Drive image is a saviour! I might run an antivirus and a spyware
> remover in front of the customer before I saved an image. Maybe even a
> registry clean.
> I have never exprienced those tools killing a PC.
> J
> --
> Check my web site for tips on insuring safe computing in wired and
wireless
> homenetworking environments!
> www.pccitizen.com
>
> "fros" <> wrote in message
> news:O6MDb.6125$.. .
> >
> > > Say you arrive at a customers house, his machine's a mess, and you
want
> > to
> > > make a quick drive image of his system before you start tinkering
under
> > the
> > > hood. Never know what you're going to find or what's ggoing to happen
> > next -
> > > right ? You may need to restore it to the way it was?
> > > What would you install for ease of use and ease of restore - Drive
Image
> > (4
> > > or 5) or Ghost (8 or 2003) or something else ?
> > ===============
> > Some research tells me drive image is a little more user friendly and
does
> > the job well and that Ghost has more features, particiularly network
> > options, and does the job equally well. I read further that DI is
probably
> > better for the home or single machine setup and Ghost better for the IT
> pro
> > or business setup.
> > Do you agree?
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> > >
> >
> >
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>

fros

I did see that, and I wonder how the merge will turn out.
I bought driveimage 7, and am not quite as comfortable with it as with
driveimage 2002.
I see Checkpoint bought zone labs also.
Two very important tools are getting absorbed by big companies.
This doesn't usually bode well....
John

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"Barry Watzman" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Symantec has purchased PowerQuest, so expect to see Ghost and Drive
> image merged, or one completely replaced by the other, or something
> along those lines. Definitely buy the current versions, the last
> non-Symantec versions, of both Partition Magic and Drive Image, the next
> version, on top of everything else, will probably have product activation.
>
>
> fros wrote:
>
> >>Say you arrive at a customers house, his machine's a mess, and you want
> >
> > to
> >
> >>make a quick drive image of his system before you start tinkering under
> >
> > the
> >
> >>hood. Never know what you're going to find or what's ggoing to happen
> >
> > next -
> >
> >>right ? You may need to restore it to the way it was?
> >>What would you install for ease of use and ease of restore - Drive Image
> >
> > (4
> >
> >>or 5) or Ghost (8 or 2003) or something else ?
> >
> > ===============
> > Some research tells me drive image is a little more user friendly and
does
> > the job well and that Ghost has more features, particiularly network
> > options, and does the job equally well. I read further that DI is
probably
> > better for the home or single machine setup and Ghost better for the IT
pro
> > or business setup.
> > Do you agree?
> >
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John Loop

"John D Loop" <> wrote in message
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> I agree. Drive image is a saviour! I might run an antivirus and a spyware
> remover in front of the customer before I saved an image. Maybe even a
> registry clean.
> I have never exprienced those tools killing a PC.
> J
> --
> Check my web site for tips on insuring safe computing in wired and
wireless
> homenetworking environments!
> www.pccitizen.com
>
> "fros" <> wrote in message
> news:O6MDb.6125$.. .
> >
> > > Say you arrive at a customers house, his machine's a mess, and you
want
> > to
> > > make a quick drive image of his system before you start tinkering
under
> > the
> > > hood. Never know what you're going to find or what's ggoing to happen
> > next -
> > > right ? You may need to restore it to the way it was?
> > > What would you install for ease of use and ease of restore - Drive
Image
> > (4
> > > or 5) or Ghost (8 or 2003) or something else ?
> > ===============
> > Some research tells me drive image is a little more user friendly and
does
> > the job well and that Ghost has more features, particiularly network
> > options, and does the job equally well. I read further that DI is
probably
> > better for the home or single machine setup and Ghost better for the IT
> pro
> > or business setup.
> > Do you agree?
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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