Acronis True Image Drive Image7 or Norton Ghost 2003

Hi. I've been Googling and have checked various sites but cannot make up my
mind as to which would be the best for me. I wish to allow my system (XP
Home) but create timed automated back-ups of my C drive to another HDD. C
Drive 40Gb of which 20 occupied but I expect to be up to 30Gb soon (scanning
in many historic personal photos at present). The second drive is intended
to be purely for back-up and therefore at least at present should be capable
of 4 back-ups before I hope automated overwrite of the eldest back-up.

Has anyone experience of these on XPhome? - do they do what they say? Is
there any nasty hidden secrets like having to play with the Register - a
world I fear and do not wish to enter often?

Would be grateful for your views and thanks in advance.

 

I like Acronis after having used a couple of incarnations. It allows
creation of a boot CD and not just boot floppies.

 

Acronis every time.

Ease of use, mounting the images to look in them, everything.

 

Thanks Peter /Eric.
Your views are appreciated. I've not heard any adverse comment about Power
Quest or (Bloatware) or Norton's offers - that's interesting!& ?

 

You didnt ask about Powerquest.....Ghost or Acronis cant do RAID imaging,
Powerquest can though...

 

mmm? Thx for this.

 

Well, Norton is good. No question about it. But I like being able to boot
off of a CD (especially when I have no floppy!!) and in my opinion, the
restore time with Acronis is quite a bit faster than with Ghost.