Posted: 5/9/2007 12:21:13 PM EDT
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After some time in this forum I have realized that there are not too many Norton fans. That's fine. I liked Ghost 2003 and was wondering what your preferences were when it comes to a program you can run from a bootable floppy to send the system setup to a disk in an image format? I don't wish to start an arguement between members. I simply am off work for a few weeks and wanted to shop around for the best. I did read about some other programs that are supposed to be able to do this. Such as Power ISO, but I still know little about it. Any help is appreciated very much!!! Thanks! |
| i personally use acronis drive image. don't know if will boot from a floppy but it does have a nice bootable cd to image drives, or you can create images while running windows. after have a couple issues with different flavors of ghost, including the corporate versions, i moved over to acronis and haven't looked back, excellent product :) |
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Another Ghost 2003 guy here. I don't use bootable floppies, I used bootable CD's and DVD's like MINIPE and UBCD4Win.. and more.. that way I get easy access to USB and Networking. When I build systems I save the builds in Ghost images in 3 stages, RAW, interim and final.. I save the images on a USB drive or a share on another system on the network. Hint.. don't spend any money on doing this... |
The reason I need my program to be bootable from a floppy is because I am a small-time pc repairman and many pcs I work on have only one cd drive. Sometime I even have to use one of my floppy drives and one of my cd burners on old pcs. Most common for pcs is one floppy and one cd burner. That's why I use the floppy. All hints appreciated and noted! 
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I'm a small time PC repair guy too  Am I understanding this correctly..??.. You want to boot to floppy and save the system image to the CD burner on that system??? It might be possible.. but it would be a multi-floppy kluge that would require multiple CD's to burn to.. I wouldn't bother with it. I don't work on systems that don't support booting to CD.. I haven't used a DOS boot floppy in 5 years.. I keep it simple.. I boot to UBCD4WIN and save the image of the system I'm trying to fix to either a network share or a USB2 drive. If the hard drive of the system under repair has bad sectors Ghost32 won't work... so you have to try and copy as much of the contents (User Data) as you can to your USB drive or network share... that's easy to do with any of the pre-built Bart Boot stuff like UBCD4WIN Note.. with UBCD4WIN you'll need to put Ghost32 on your USB drive or your network share.. it's not on the CD.. |
The image is for a bootable CD Looks like there is no option to create a local image/ |