Download Norton Ghost 11 For Windows 7
Alen Quiroz
i am using ghost with pe 5 on dell machines. i created an new image using windows 11 23H2 and ghost stops at 50% with no errors. Network admin worked with me for two hours and no errors other than just stopping.
the first time is mentioned framenet. so i checked and my framenet was not installed (all versions). i installed them and retested. now i got the same error but a mention of runtime library. i downloaded and installed c++ distri library, cleaned up image and ghosted.
If running in winpe environment how was the machine shut down. If the machine was shutdown forcable it may leave a log bit on the drive try using -ntil -ntic -ntexact command line parameters for ghost
I would like to make some disk images after I do the OS, drivers, programs etc installs. That way if something goes wrong, I should be able to just restore the image and don't have to start all over. Anyone know what's the best software to do this with? I read conflicting reports and seems a lot of the ones recommended in the past do not actually exist anymore...
it kind of depends on your hardware and os you are using. i backup all my retro machines because i hate installing software.
i use the following:
windows 95 - ghost 5.1, works well with low memory systems (windows or dos)
windows 98se - clonezilla 1.1.0-8, requires more memory than ghost, this version runs well on older chipsets like bx440 or i815 (bootable cd)
windows 2000 - acronis true image 10 w/bart's pe builder, has a few different boot and recovery options to run from windows or other bootable environment. also useful if you need to backup a raid array.
windows xp (and above) - macrium reflect . whatever the latest version is. still runs on xp. love those guys.
windows 2000 - acronis true image 10 w/bart's pe builder, has a few different boot and recovery options to run from windows or other bootable environment.
also useful if you need to above) - macrium reflect . whatever the latest version is. still runs on xp. love those guys.
I'm speaking under correction, but I think at some point Acronis True Image 7.x also supported Win98SE/Me, still.
Anyway, not sure anymore. I loved Acronis True Image in the Win XP days, because it was user friendly, logical and could do 1:1 images of partitons/HDDs,
with several compression levels, along with the ability to resize images and restore Partition IDs (useful for Win NT/XP). Last, but not least, it also had an emgerceny boot disc
that could be made with a media builder program (supported making floppies and CDs). It contained a self-booting copy of True Image by using a both DOS and Linux based system each.
Also cool was the ability of newer versions to be able to restore older versions backups. That way, you could upgrade without loosing your old backups.
That being said, True Image lost appeal after version 10 or so I heard. We mainly used ATI 7 and 9 here.
I run it off the bootable CD and have used it to image and restore DOS 6.22, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It natively supports my USB 2.0 NTFS-formatted external HDD, so imaging is fast and space constrains aren't an issue.
No, this won't give you an *exact* copy of your drive. You can only get an exact copy by using imaging software, not by doing a file-copy. Not to mention that your copy is physical as well - being just on a second hard disk - and nothing you can put on a NAS for later restore, for example.
added: I have bought Acronis from v10 thru v16 and then 2017 and 2018 versions. and all allowed making a great media ISO like v8 except in 2016-17 they changed things and the media ISO does not work the same. For anyone looking to image from WinXP thru Win10 I suggest Acronis v16 if you can find it...
I use Acronis True Image 2019 for my XP/Win 10 Machine. It's the last version to support XP, but it long ago lost Win 9x functionality. For my 98/XP Machine I use Norton Ghost 9.0. I have an older version of Ghost that runs on a floppy but I think that's only good up to 9x.
Just for a point of reference. I use FOG, and I can go from bare metal to a 20GB fat image, Win7 image ready for the desktop in under 15 minutes. I have deploy rates to a Dell e7250 in the area of 6.1GB/min and to a 7280 with an nvme disk around 9GB/min. Under stand the deployment rates are how fast the target computer can receive the image from the FOG server and expand it to the disk. If we deploy using multicast we can deploy Win7 to 30 system in about 22 minutes.
In your case I think you need to define your requirements a bit more beyond just a fast deployment. Like will you deploy only windows OS or are you looking at additional operating systems like Chromium OS, BSD, or Linux?
As a new staff, I would try to understand the whole flow instead of changing the process as you may have different set ups and different images already (created by ghost) and using other software ware may mean that you may have to create new master images.
Better preparation of the image can speed up matters like removing unnecessary programmes defrag and zeroing the unused parts. Also shrink partitions and re-expand after cloning. Here are some references _to/140432-clonezilla-creating-small-fast-clones and CCleaner Support Community
The USB stick is use to Launch Symantec Ghost > multicast . Currently, I am imaging using a local network through a switch using two pc. Right now for window 7 32bit takes about 30mins and Window 7 64bit takes about 1hr.
Recently there has been a lot of excellent technical discussions about the limitations of various utility programs (FDISK, FORMAT, SCANDISK, Norton Disk Doctor, etc.) vs. today's increasingly large hard drives.
I was wondering if anyone knows anything about similar limitations of Norton Ghost 2003 (a DOS program)? Web searches and anecdotal reports indicate problems with HDDs in the 1 TB to 1.5 TB range with "divide overflow" errors often mentioned, but I have not seen anything definitive. I personally do not have a HDD in this size range to test and experiment around with, but recently I helped a friend make a Ghost image backup to his new 1 TB NTFS-formatted external HDD. I had a lot of difficulty getting various DOS USB drivers to recognize the large HDD (I believe I did get some "divide overflow" errors), but once I managed to do so, Ghost 2003 did not have any problems writing the image to the drive. Of course the new HDD was empty so the image was written well below any "hard size limit". It would be very useful to know the maximum size limit for Ghost 2003, and steps one could take (repartitioning, etc.) to compensate. Thanks for any information on this topic!
The program is notorious for creating corrupt image files, due to faulty compression (although it's possibly okay for uncompressed disk-to-disk direct cloning). Users typically run into real problems with image files created by it.
IMHO, encouraging the use of the program is unwise. There always seem to be those who can't grasp the distinction between its compressed and uncompressed options, or who just don't think to test their image backups before they need to rely on restoring them!
Sorry this is somewhat off-topic. But I get nervous when I come across this particular program. At the very least, anyone reading this topic needs to be aware of the risks that are involved in using Norton Ghost 2003.
I must say I'm shocked ("surprised" is too mild a word) to hear about *any* problems with Ghost. This is definitely the first time I've seen a problem reported. I've personally used Ghost 2003 for years and Ghost 6.0 for several years before that, successfully restoring dozens of images without any problems whatsoever. It's saved my bacon countless times, and I consider it one of the most valuable programs I own. BTW I always use fast compression and save the images to another HDD, and I always run an integrity check on the image afterwards just to be safe. I've never had an image fail its integrity check either.
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