Teemac,
Welcome!
I've read your post twice and I still don't understand why you need a "Partition Manager" to do backups of your OS drive.
However you didn't do your "Do's" and tell us about your system.
What make, model, OS, ram? drives? etc.
If you already own several different versions of Ghost, the best backup program to ever come down the pike, why don't you just use it?
We've even discussed FREE alternatives to Ghost, right here in this "Radified" forum.
I've written several thousand words on the subject myself.
Me? Well I'm an old hard-head.....I still use Ghost 2003 to back up my XP system and Ghost 11.5 to back up my Vista System.
I run Ghost 2003 from a boot floppy and Ghost 11.5 from a boot Flash Drive or CD. Both work swimmingly well.
I for one, would definitely NOT be jumping on an unproven program to do what Ghost does so well. That would be foolish at best.
You mentioned you have to do a restore because of Viruses.
Why don't you just keep the viruses off of your computer in the first place? That's a whole lot easier than having to do a Ghost restore and loosing everything you've done on your PC since the last Ghost backup. AVG 8.0 FREE does that little job quite nicely. I use it and share it with my hundreds of customers and we all stay 100% virus FREE. The program is FREE to download and it gets daily updates automatically and will even run a full scan daily if you like.
Ghost is too bloated? Well, the GUI probably is. I thought so many years ago when I got my first version that came with a GUI. That's why I used it to make my first Ghost boot floppy and then I promptly deleted the Ghost program off of my Hard Drive. I've never installed Ghost to my hard drive since then. Just having it on the OS drive is redundant (ridiculous), when that drive crashes.
It's pretty hard to use it, from a crashed drive. Don't ya think?
Ok, that's my two cents worth, for a Wednesday morning, still working on my first cup of JO.
Y'all have a great day now, Y'hear?
Happy Holidays!
Shadow
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