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Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition?

From "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom>
Newsgroups comp.sys.laptops
Subject Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition?
Date 2011-08-18 06:40 -0500
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Roger Mills wrote:
> On 16/08/2011 22:30, BillW50 wrote:
>
>> Oh man, Acronis! Once I thought this program was great and once
>> posted pages of problems with it. I used the free WD and Seagate
>> versions and 2009 and 2011 versions. And one problem keeps popping
>> up with all of them.
>>
>> Have you actually tried to restore from an USB drive yet? Acronis
>> has no problems backing up to any USB drive. It does this perfectly.
>> But where it has problems is restoring. Some it can never see at
>> all. Some it can see on a good day. And some it can always see. This
>> drove me to my wits end.
>>
>> I could see if other programs had the same problem that it is
>> probably not Acronis fault. BUT IT IS ONLY ACRONIS THAT HAS THIS
>> PROBLEM! Acronis answer is to not use an USB drive to restore. What
>> a load of crap if you ask me. Why the hell should I partition my
>> laptop hard drive just to whole the backup? Then the stupid hard
>> drive fails? Is Acronis really that stupid? It appears so!
>
> So what drive/partition imaging software would you recommend?

It depends on the machine. On 7 inch netbooks, I like Ghost32.exe (v11) 
and use it with BartPE. The reason is because it fits the small 800x480 
screens with lots of room to spare.

Otherwise I used to use either Acronis or Paragon to backup. And while 
Paragon restores just fine from any USB drive, incremental takes like 4 
times longer than a full backup. Acronis does incremental very much 
faster. Although backing up and restoring takes a lot of time.

So nowadays I just clone drives. This is so much faster. And I have 
about 5 drives that I rotate. Thus if any drive ever fails, I still have 
four other ones just ready to go complete with drive caddies.

> I can't make Ghost2003 work properly with a USB2-connected external
> hard drive - so have to back up my system partition to my data
> partition on the same hard drive - and then copy the Ghost files to
> the external drive later. That means that, in the event of a
> disaster, I have to have a working system to be able to copy the
> backup back to the data partition before I can use it to create a
> working system! UGH!

I do sync data with SyncBack to an external drive. But that is to sync 
between all of my different computers. And if that copy ever fails, no 
big deal since the other computers also have copies.

Cloning, well Acronis clones too. But you have to shutdown Windows to do 
it. Paragon can clone under Windows (live). And XXClone (free) also 
clones under Windows. And I really like XXClone. The paid version will 
do incremental cloning as well. So you don't have to rewrite everything 
all over again and it is really fast.

-- 
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3

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Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 14:24 -0700
  Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2011-08-15 22:55 +0100
    Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2011-08-16 12:16 +1200
      Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 20:35 -0700
    Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 20:47 -0700
      Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 19:40 +0100
        Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 13:49 -0500
        Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 16:22 -0300
          Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 15:33 -0500
            Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "RnR" <rnrtexas@gmail.com> - 2011-08-21 06:57 -0500
  Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <2579843445nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-15 16:21 -0700
    Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 20:11 -0700
      Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <1245nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-15 23:21 -0700
        Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-16 13:39 -0700
          Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 16:30 -0500
            Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 16:35 -0500
            Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 22:55 +0100
              Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-18 06:40 -0500
            Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-18 19:17 -0700
              Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-19 18:05 -0500
          Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <1245nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-16 16:47 -0700
            Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-18 06:04 -0500
              Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <2579843445nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-18 17:23 -0700
                Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-19 18:34 -0500
                Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <2579843445nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-19 21:26 -0700
                Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-20 11:03 -0500
  Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-08-16 02:04 +0000

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