Re: Windows registry cleanup tools - PowerQuest Drive Image

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger wrote:
> No can do. No floppy drives.
Do you have a CD or DVD drive? Because Acronis (the
home ed) lets you create a bootable CD. Now I think you
have to have a boot floppy (which in the case of NT
flavors would, I assume, have to be ERUNT, since pure
MS NT doesn't boot from a floppy)? But that's for
creating it, so you might be able to finagle it into
thinking a flash drive was a floppy. I've had Acronis
for over a year now; don't use it as much as I did,
because after a year+ of running, I figure if the
system goes south I'm better off with a clean
reinstall, though in that case I'll probably start with
one of the "bare hardware" image CDs I created rather
than doing it strictly from scratch.
But I agree with Wolfgang that the home ed is
reasonably priced and works well. (When I got it, you
didn't have to pay extra for support; that, I agree, is
a scam pure and simple.) And my experience of Norton
has made me very leery of them.
> > Norton will set it up and also load up drivers for your USB ports
> > allowing
> > access to the backup image.
> That's great, if it can actually do that. Seems like it would have to be
> a really low-level (i.e., deep-level) change, to make drivers work
> before the OS is loaded.
> > As an aside, Norton also provide a Ghost Explorer, that allows you to
> > open
> > and extract files (tho not add to) from a Ghost image.
>
> That's a nice feature.
>
> I guess I should take the plunge with Ghost 2003.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx


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Patricia M. Godfrey
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