🚀 go-pugleaf

Ron Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:59:42 +0000, EvilBill wrote:
> 
>> Back when I had 98 I had no backup solution at all (I was a piss-poor
>> student at first, then out of work for a while, so I didn't have money
>> to
>> spend on CD burners and extra HDs.) The last time I reinstalled XP was
>> when I got a new rig :) ATM I have two HDs, one for the OS and apps and
>> the other for data, but I've got a DVD burner too so every so often I just
>> blast all the stuff I need to keep onto DVD. Simplistic solution I know,
>> but better than what I had back in my 98 days: a single tiny HD and 72
>> floppies ;)
>  
> Hell that's better than most people. My neighbor the other day wanted me
> to fix her XP that she had business records on and no backuo or install
> media ! Good grief it was unbootable. I didn't even want to try as that
> was a losing situation for me. Most likely I could have booted it off a
> live Cd like Slax or Knoppix and recovered some over a LAN or whatever
> but frankly I didn't want to get involved in that mess.
> 
> I tell ya, I used to have a good ol' Colorado Jumbo tape drive. Then  I
> went to removable HD's and i hope to gawd I never see another tape drive
> as long as I live.
> 
> That's what I would suggest. Get a removable HD caddy and a EIDE 
> HD. It takes me about 50 minutes to completely backup a 80 GB drive with
> Drive Image. That in combination with PMagic are great tools. But
> Symantec killed DImage. I have the last version which is NTFS capable
> along with ext2 and ext3 (Linux file systems). 
> 
> Drive Image is so much better than Ghost, IMO. If you go that route and
> want a copy (DI) I'll let you have one since it's out of production. But
> if you have no other FS's than MS ones, Ghost will work OK I guess.
> 
> Forget anything else as it's all the same thing - Paragon and it's a
> piece of crap, I mean totally useless. They market the same product under
> several name they bought out.
> 
> I tried the demo and it whacks the partition tables and boot records,
> leaving you with an unbootable system. I reported it to them and they
> said "This is a known problem".
> 
> Huh ??? And you want me to pay for this crap ???
> 
> I planned for such a problem and had a reliable backup. So I reformatted
> and restored the good backup.
> 
> Put DI and other utilities on a CD, pop in the removable HD and you are
> ready to rock.

This one is really good.

<http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/choose-trueimage/>