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by grbeckmeyer 1 view

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I hate to ask this 'opinion' question, but I will increase the points and split accordingly if need be for the most intelligently thought out answers. Here it is...I am searching for mainly disaster recovery using CDR/RW media, although being able to restore individual files (like DriveImage5 or Ghost2002) is a big plus. Unfortunately, I tried a demo of Drive Image and it always fails at 50% when closing media on the first CD. I'd go buy Ghost, but I'm generally not a big fan of Symantec, and have read some poor reviews of Ghost. I also tried a demo of NTI Drivebackup which had problems (and was just STUPID slow). I've also thought of Novastor InstantRecovery, but my drive is not on the certified list, and an email to their support suggested I just buy it on the 30-day money back trial and test it. It's cheap, $35, but I don't relish the hassle of being a guinea pig and possibly losing money on shipping charges. I don't really have enough info on Dantz Retrospect Express to have an opinion on it, so info on that would also be welcome. Any others I'm missing? Again, sorry for the opinion piece, but I have plenty of points to spare so if you have some thoughtful, INTELLIGENT, comments, go right ahead and I'll take care of you.Also, any ideas on the Drive Image problem (I really want Drive Image, but not if I have to buy a new burner) that FIX it will win, say, 500 points!

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by syadm

I would use Ghost with existing CDRW or
buy a new one with burnproof or equal feature and use Roxio:s take two for incremental backup and ghost for full backup.

HTH

Tom

by grbeckmeyer

I've awarded the points anyway since you tried, but this is not really what I was looking for. As I said, I do not want to buy a new burner. I'm not going to fork over $60+ for Ghost to be a tester. Also, I forget exactly but Powerquest does limit the trial in doing restores and drive copies, but that shouldn't stop the backup from working properly. I'm going to give Novastor's InstantRecovery a try later this month as it is 20% off in December, making it barely over $30, plus if it works well I'm going to try to convince my boss to use it for our NT and Netware customers.

by big ray

Have you tried talking to Powerquest about the problem. My thought on this is that the failure is programed in. Lets face it, if the demo did everything the actual program does, then who would buy the program. What you could try is this... if you have more than one partition create an image file of the one partition say C: on D:. Burn the C: image. Then create an image of D: on C: and then burn that onto a CD.

The other thing to do is to put in a second hard drive and then create an image of HD1 onto HD2, then burn the image file to disk.

Hope this helps.

by grbeckmeyer

I've awarded the points anyway since you tried, but this is not really what I was looking for. As I said, I do not want to buy a new burner. I'm not going to fork over $60+ for Ghost to be a tester. Also, I forget exactly but Powerquest does limit the trial in doing restores and drive copies, but that shouldn't stop the backup from working properly. I'm going to give Novastor's InstantRecovery a try later this month as it is 20% off in December, making it barely over $30, plus if it works well I'm going to try to convince my boss to use it for our NT and Netware customers.

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