Ghost 10 or Acronis 2009

[Midknyte]

Aren't they both SATA drives?

[dneilson]

If you have the book for the drive the DMA is probably listed in the Specs. for the drive which should be there.

[Coach17]

The current drive is a Western Digital IDE. The new one is a Seagate SATA. my motherboard supports SATA.

[K G G]

Just because - my vote for Ghost.

Only since I haven't ever had issues with a backup or restore in any of the Ghost versions used over the years.
I run it at night, so time isn't an issue and I haven't had a need for the bells and whistles mentioned above.

With that said, I have no doubt Acronis is better, believing my fellow doctors here, and maybe some day I try it too.

Cheers
KGG

[Coach17]

I have the book and the only thing I see for DMA is this. Supports PIO mode 0-4, Block Mode and Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 BUS MASTER MODE.
My board # is CRU51-M9

[Midknyte]

The current drive is a Western Digital IDE. The new one is a Seagate SATA. my motherboard supports SATA.

That is potentially a problem since the controllers may be different. If your system bluescreens, you'll have to at least do a repair install.

KGG, you should definitely try AcronisTI. I was a skeptic at first, but I'll never go back to Ghost. I even use Acronis TI Echo Server on my Win2003 boxes.

[Coach17]

Like I said, we wait until the transfer is complete and see what needs to be done. I appreciate all the replys.

[GPaDavis]

Another YES for Acronis. Tried Ghost some years back along with Acronis and Acronis (vers. 6??) won hands down!

Have Acronis Home 2009 now and quite happy with it. Have it on flash drive and no problems (BartPE) at all.

Bob

[Coach17]

We completed the imaging with Acronis 2009 and all went well. It only took about 30 minutes to complete going from a 120gb drive to a 500gb drive. We actually used a Western Digitlal IDE drive instead of the Seagate SATA. The reason being the Seagate had to be formatted and we missed the end of the format and it started to load windows so we stopped it there and went with the Western Digital.
I know am using my 120gb drive as a back up which we put in a external case. Also have a 250gb Western Digital My Book, so I have plenty of back up space for now.
My friend asked me to tell all of you altough the Acronis software is excellent there customer service is not. He emailed them back in January to ask a question and just received an answer this past week. A two month wait.

I do have one other question. Earlier (about 6 weeks ago) I had a virus and had posted the information on this forum. In the end everything came out clean. I was advised to un-install MacAfee Anti Virus and do with Avantis Home 4.8, which I did. The only issue I am having with that is that it will not complete a full thourogh scan. I ran it yesterday and it only got up to 51% complete and then stopped. I did see the little bar oving like it was running and let it go for another few hours and it did not complete. Can anyone advise me. Actually the same thing was happening when I had MacAfee.
I have noticed that it stops when it gets to Pinacle Studio 11.


Thanks for everyones help through all of this.

[fink]

Try doing a scan of pinnacle only and see if you can tell which file/folder it hangs up on. Maybe a large compressed or encrypted file that you could make an exception for.

[Coach17]

I scanned the Pinnacle folder and it did not hang up. It went up to 100%. I was looking at the help file and it calls it Exclusions. It is suppose to be in settings. I have the free version if that matters. I do not see where I can set Pinnacle as a exclusion so i could do a thorough scan on my C drive and have it skip Pinnacle and see if it will get to 100%.
Please let me know.

[fink]

right click the Avast icon in systray, select program settings and click "exclusions" and navigate to the problem folder.

I believe you can do that with the free version.

You can also create realtime exclusions here.. (click "customize")

[Coach17]

Ok, I went in to exclusions and I checked off the Pinnacle file and also Adobe Help which was another spot I saw it hanging up. I ran it yesterday and it still would not do a 100% SCAN. I am running it again now to see if it will complete.
I also have Avast on a laptop. I am going to run it there also and see what happens.