ben_mott wrote on Aug 5th, 2008 at 3:27pm:Microsoft have their own method now with windows Vista (WAIK,FREE imagex included in WAIK download Free Imagex is extremley powerful
and nearly as good as ghost.exe and is credit to Microsoft they should be proud of the person who wrote that software) for Administrators and IT professionals:
I agree that microsoft has come up with the new imaging software and that too for free. I believe Vista OS installation is now imaging based. Thats why its so difficult to now integrate service packs and updates into existing DVD media. Microsoft installed Vista on some computer and then captured the image using this software and sold out the copies. The imaging software create an image that is hardware independent. Something like universal restore from Acronis. I dont think Microsoft imaging supports incremental backup etc features.
That apart, if you consider using this as solution the download for the WAIK is more than 1 GB. Over and above its pretty complex. I mean for IT admin it may work after some experimentation but home user would have second thoughts using this.
Now another good thing of vista is, it already had a backup and restore functionality better than normal system restore. But then it is available in only business/enterprise and ultimate edition. So home user still dont gain anything.
So a home user looking for quick solution would anyways buy some already good UI software. Now i feel Acronis would be the best call because of very neat interface and very simple easy to understand wizards.
For any product starting with Norton, shakes me up. Rather it shakes my computer
. All the softwares are resource intensive and make your system crawl like anything. I try to stay as much as i can from them. Ghost 14 is no exception. In addition, the truck load of registries which always get to stay in you system even after uninstalling the product.