Hard Drive Duplicators

[dajogejr]

While there are no feasible replacments for Ghost, or other imaging software....my company is looking to supplement...so I suggested a Disk Duplicator. Nothing too fancy..nothing too expensive....

Any thoughts or ideas..?

[Midknyte]

I haven't seen those for a while. You could always create a bootable cd with drive image. Kinda like an HP or Compaq restore cd. I do that for my systems. Just boot from the CD and I scripted Drive Image pro to run automatically. I can install a win2k image in less than 10 minutes from a cd. That would save time in removing hard drives, etc.

[dajogejr]

Normally, I'd use Ghost the same way...save the image file, and create a bootable CD..
But...lately, the images have been running over 1GB or two, even with high compression, and I'm having unreliable reimaging from spanned disks...XP and W


I'm a huge fan of Ghost, how does drive image pro compare, MK?

[Midknyte]

DIP is very similar to Ghost Enterprise. I actually use both Drive Image Pro 4.0 and Deploycenter (basically DIP 5.0). I only use DIP because our company chose to use it. Both programs are good in my book. :cool:

Here's a link on DIP scripting if you're interested:
http://www.powerquest.com/support/primus/id4301.cfm

With the way things are going, Symantec is set to buy out Powerquest. If that happens, then I guess we won't have to debate over which is better. :rolleyes:

[Midknyte]

As far as spanning to multiple cds, I haven't had problems. So far it's only up to 2 discs. In DIP you need to enable spanning, so that it limits the size of each piece.

[dajogejr]

thanks, MK... I'll have to check that out.

I've set Ghost to enable spanning, by setting the switch...it just seems like 2 to 3 times out of 5, half way through the second CD...it'll cough. I've tried multple brands and types of CD-Rs...and, different burners, TDK, Yamie, Plextor...

So...it's got to be somethin simple.

I'll take a looksie and see what I come up with...

Thanks again.;)