Re: Returned (Finally!)

From: Peter E.C. Dashwood (dashwood_at_enternet.co.nz)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:53:23 +1300

<docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:bngp5m$1so$1@panix1.panix.com...
<snip>> >
> >I wonder if anyone has come across a similar utility that will really do
the
> >biz for Windows systems?
> >
> >Everything I have tried (including Norton Ghost...) fails dismally on
locked
> >windows files.
>
> Have you tried using Ghost after booting to DOS?

No, I haven't tried that. Bit inconvenient but definitely an option. I'm not
sure if it will read NTFS files under DOS, and I would think it still has
the 8 Gig limit... Guess the answer is to try it... Now I just have to
locate the copy of Ghost I put away 2 years ago <G>...

> The friend I mentioned
> in another posting is using Win98 and Ghost always hangs when he tries to
> invoke it from a DOS window... but when he boots the entire system to DOS
> then Ghost runs admirably. He's only used Ghost to write to a CD...
> hmmmmmm, perhaps I can see what Ghost does when it is directed to a Jaz
> drive...
>
> ... but enough about my problem. Adaptec had a product called 'Take Two'
> that shipped with its Easy CD Creator software but that was discontinued
> by Roxio (who bought the software) because of problems with Win2K and
> WinXP. What's your OS?
>

I'm using Win XP Professional, very happily.

> (I assume you are looking for what I have... the ability to, essentially,
> power down your machine, replace a fried drive, boot to DOS and restore to
> where you were previously.)
>

Yes, that is exactly the Nirvana I am seeking...<G>

Pete.

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