lforbes

One quick question. What version do you own? Is it like Ghost where you
have to license every computer you image?

Thanks
Lara

"Simon Berube" wrote:

> TrueImage is incredible, and so very affordable too! Ghost was an amazing
> product back in the day, but hardware has changed and Norton didn't keep up.
> I seriously considered purchasing Norton to make multiple workstations for
> my father's business. I had a Ghost 2003 edition that didn't cut it because
> of incompatibilities with the hardware. I assumed that the latest version
> would resolve the issue, mainly SATA.
>
> Luckily I ended up trusting the Newegg customer reviews. My perception of
> the Ghost software was that it was leading, robust software which was in a
> league of its own. However, the ratings were awful, and I looked into the
> competition. TrueImage was cheap and downloadable right from Newegg, so I
> saved both time and money. That stuff is amazing. You can prepare many
> media types as boot media. From this, you can clone drives, get and send
> image files to and from CD-R media, USB, network shares, DVD. I was just
> impressed, because they made that media resemble the XP luna theme and it's
> always easy to use.
>
> In my case, I installed the software on my server, set the network boot
> options, and with every system, I used boot from network option and it was
> same as if I had put in the boot CD. I made an image from one computer,
> which saved directly to a network share, and I then pulled that image from
> several identical workstations (also with the boot from network ability) to
> save time. This software is up to date, extra robust software, that easy to
> use.
>
> Only thing that I would comment about, is that if you choose to use the
> network to do these things, you may need to type /SERVER/C or whatever your
> shared folder may be. Most of the time the entire network was viewable, but
> sometimes I gave it direction .
>
> Good luck with it Charlie.. Oh .. and if it is not apparent, I am not being
> payed to say such things, it's incredible software and I want to let it be
> known.
>
> Simon
>
> "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:OEFu5%23KZHHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> > Acronis True Image Home Version 10.0.4942 might be a solution for
> > you. Very capable Imaging program and works well with Vista.
> > Acronis offers a free trial at:
> > http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/
> >
> > "Charlie" <charlie@aol.com> wrote in message
> > news:eQG3C6KZHHA.3968@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> >> Is there any Vista compatible drive imaging software that will allow me
> >> to save my local image to a network drive? With XP I had been using
> >> Norton Ghost but they have no solution for Vista.
> >
> >
>