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    Ghost Questions

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by DellDope, Aug 7, 2006.

  1. DellDope

    DellDope Newbie

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    I was wondering the following about Ghost 10, a trial version of which came installed on my new E1505:

    - For those of you that did *not* delete it, what happened at the end of the trial period? Did it become totally disabled, or limited functionality? Was there a special deal offered if you bought it? Do you remember the deal and was/is it worth it compared to buying it retail (assuming you didn't already decide to not buy it)?

    - Is there a way to 'extract' or save the Ghost 10 trial software, that is, save its install folder so I can take it off my system now, then install it at a later time? I've never seen mentioned anywhere that the Ghost 10 trial is available separately from Dell (or is it?).

    - I still have the original Dell partitions on my system. I tried the Ctrl-F11 restore process over the weekend since I didn't have anything on the PC that I couldn't sacrifice. It went OK, if a little long (about 50 minutes). My system was restored to the "out of the box" state. Anyways I noticed that the restore process used Ghost 8.3 (DOS version) to restore. I concluded from this that Ghost 8.3 was used to create the image. Now, I have already saved the image to a DVD using Dan Goodell's great information at his website ( Link Here). Does anyone know if Ghost 10 can restore a Ghost 8.3 image? If I remember correctly, I believe Ghost 10 is actually based on some other imaging software, in which case I don't think it would be able to read Ghost 8.x images.

    Thanks for any info! :)
     
    DellDope, Aug 7, 2006
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  2. dg1261

    dg1261 Notebook Geek

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    See my response in this thread. Ghostrecovery.exe is Dell's variation (probably stripped-down, but I haven't bothered to test it) of Ghost 8.

    AFAIK, I think Ghost 8.x only comes in a Win32 version, not DOS. Ghost 7.x is the DOS version and I suspect the primary purpose of developing Ghost 8.x was to run in a Win32 environment and read/write images compatible with the earlier DOS versions.

    Ghost 8 is the successor to the Norton Ghost program line Symantec purchased from Peter Norton Computing. Ghost 9/10 is the successor to the Drive Image program line Symantec purchased from PowerQuest. The two program lines are incapable of reading each others' file formats.

    Dan Goodell
     
    dg1261, Aug 8, 2006
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