Author: William Sorin
Date: 05:02:43 07/26/05
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On July 26, 2005 at 03:55:42, Peter Skinner wrote: >On July 26, 2005 at 03:44:35, William Sorin wrote: > >>A friend told me that you can compress a 40 gig hardrive to just one 700mb CD >>using Norton Ghost, I thought this would be completely impossible. But he claims >>this is a Standard Operation. Is he nuts or am I silly for not knowing what he >>alleges to be common? > >I used Norton Ghost to make images of my initial operating system install for >quick restore later. > >Off the 3 dvd's I use for initial install, the image produced by Ghost is only >about 480mb on my saved partition. > >To compress an entire 40 gig drive the image would likely be around 3.2gb. 700 >is a little far fetched. > >I now use Acronis True Image 8.0 for my back up needs. It is MUCH faster than >Ghost, and I believe does a better job. > >Peter maybe it's because most of my hardrive is filled up with media files movies and mp3, 40 gigs would take 20 cd's using ghost
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