Ghost or Windows 8 best to backup?

Burgurne

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I have used Norton Ghost for severel years, making an image of my C:, so I allways is able to return to last backup-stage. But with Windows 8 and UEFI boot, there are now 3 partitions that has to be in a "complete" systembackup, and only one of these partitions has a drive-letter. Does Norton Ghost support this?
Or is it better to use Windows 8 own backupfunction? (aka a complete system-disk backup on another HDD)
 

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I don't know about Ghost, but Windows own backup is flaky.

There are several 3rd party imaging programs which are more flexible and reliable.
 

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I don't know about Ghost, but Windows own backup is flaky.

Are you speak of the regular backup utility or the system image utility?
 

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System image, as per the question :

Or is it better to use Windows 8 own backupfunction? (aka a complete system-disk backup on another HDD)
 

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The GUI version of Windows image backup is flakey, however i've never had an issue with the command line version of it in either 7 or now 8.
 

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OMG. Ghost... haven't heard that in a long long time... Are you still running Windows 3.11? :D

I use Acronis. That's been my fav for awhile now.
 

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Ghost 12 works on Windows 8. No problems at all. However, I have moved to Active@ Image and Active@ Boot Disk for cold backups, which are more reliable. Active@ is pricey, but comes with many useful utilities that Norton does not offer as part of a complete backup/restore package. Acronis is no match.
 

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The built-in works ok
Macrium Reflect free is good
Acronis True Image Home is good (not free)
EaseUS ToDoBackup Free works good
Aomei Disk Backuper works good. (and is free). This is the one I am using these days.
 

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i read on norton forum, next version number 16 of ghost is needed for w8. not out yet.

That's what they ALL say, they want to sell you their stuff!
As a sidenote, I've been using NERO 7 without any probs on W7 although if Nero is to be believed, it's not supported. However true that may be, not supported <> not working! I've switched to Nero11 but ONLY because of the BluRay burning support lacking in 7 and not wanting to switch to alternatives.
OK, on topic now: been working with GHOST 11.5.1 and it never failed me. Mind you, I've put it on a rescue disk (W7PESE) and I boot from that disk, I'm kinda "Cold imaging" my Win8 partition. I also use the partition-to-partition backup, same thing, never failed me.

I agree NORTON is not offering much other nice stuff bundled with the Ghost app, but then again, I don't want anything else than the ability to perform reliable backup/restores from my Windows partitions.

Oh, btw, I have a single Windows 8 partition, no separate (hidden) system or restore partitions, everything is on C:
However, should anyone have a hidden partition (for the BOOT directory it is very common), just backup that to an image as well. Just make sure that you image them all at the same time in order to avoid breaking any dependencies between your partitions by having 'out of sync' backups.
And last but not least, I'm not a Norton fanboy, I'm just using it without any complaints. If anybody has other backup sw of choice, fine. Colleagues of mine are using Acronis and are also satisfied users of that product.
 

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