From: "Gary Britt" 

Frank, what do you mean by Ghost 9 feels cobbled together?  I thought Ghost
9 was basically the PowerQuest Drive Image product and pretty similar to
Acronis?  What do you think?

Gary

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:42f23154$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I think Acronis users need two products to 1. clone, with expansion to a
> bigger new drive.  2. do full partition management.
>
> I've used a client's Acronis 7.something, and it worked 4 times and failed
> once.
>
> Ghost 9 feels cobbled together.  Ghost 2003, which I also own, fails
>200G, on
> SATA, etc.
>
> The drive mfrs free cloners, the ones you get with a retail drive, mostly
> work, but I've had to run the target on a 40-pin cable in a couple of
> instances to get a reliable image.  There are noises off of SATA trouble
> there, too.
>
> I think the situtation is, uh, fluid.  Don't expect the brick *house
> reliability we used to enjoy in the PM 3-5 days (after we waited for the
.01
> upgrade to fix the bugs).
>

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