Choice of System Clone Restoration Bootable SoftwareI am new to your forum and read that your members has a lot of experiences with System Clone Software.
I am overwhelmed by the amount of thread where I am simply looking for straight forward answers.
I have been using Norton Ghost 2003, on and off. It worked great for IDE HDD for Windows XP, but now, this version seems to be reaching limits on SATA motherboards and newer devices.
NG 2003 had an issue loading the DOS OS boot where it froze and could not access my HDD. Had to change settings on motherboard bios for HDD to a IDE compatibility and not SATA and NG continued it's boot process to create the disk images.
I am looking for recommendations and advice for a good system cloning restoration software.
Software able to create Bootable media in CDs, DVDs, USB HDD, USB Flash, eSata HDD. (CD or DVD will be used more often)
For systems:
OS: Win XP SP1 to SP3, Win 7.
HDD: IDE, SATA 2.0/3.0, SSD
Intel Pentium III to i7 (similar AMD)
No Plans for RAID setups
Software is able to restore the cloned image on a new HDD and config partitions to fit the drive. (i.e. Original HDD 100 GB, Part 1 [5GB/50GB], Part 2 [100MB/50GB], on New HDD 50GB, Part 1 [5GB/25GB], Part 2 [100MB/25GB])
I read that Norton Ghost does this, however not CloneZilla and other Software.
What are you recommendations?
I thought of purchasing Norton Ghost 15 for latest support. However, I read mixed opinions that this version is worst.. etc.
Ghost 15.0
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832108551CVFGhost 14.0 (why is 14.0 displayed and not 15.0?)
http://ca.norton.com/ghost/Ghost 15.0
http://us.norton.com/ghost/I wish to use this on a few computers to create an initial config. Then, remove NG from the system. Do I require multiple licenses?
Thanks, for the support.