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Hi everyone I am still a big fan of Norton Ghost 2003 and have been using it for my Win XP machines for years. Alas, we are finally moving up to Vista and Windows 7 OS systems. There are a lot of posts regarding compatability with 2003 but they seem to deal with hardware issues and mainly directed at running Ghost 2003 from a Windows environment. My question regards running Ghost 2003 from DOS only. Will I be able to backup and restore Vista and Windows 7 systems? I am guessing I can because they are both NTFS systems. Am I correct?

I have already done a successful backup of a Vista machine but because it is a working system I don't want to perform a restore just for the sake of it. Even though it is an important test. I am hoping somebody else might have done these types of tests and can put me in the know. Hi everyone I am still a big fan of Norton Ghost 2003 and have been using it for my Win XP machines for years.

Norton Ghost

Alas, we are finally moving up to Vista and Windows 7 OS systems. There are a lot of posts regarding compatability with 2003 but they seem to deal with hardware issues and mainly directed at running Ghost 2003 from a Windows environment. My question regards running Ghost 2003 from DOS only.

Will I be able to backup and restore Vista and Windows 7 systems? I am guessing I can because they are both NTFS systems.

Am I correct? I have already done a successful backup of a Vista machine but because it is a working system I don't want to perform a restore just for the sake of it. Even though it is an important test. I am hoping somebody else might have done these types of tests and can put me in the know. Hi Milster, BCD stands for Boot Configuration Data.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 uses the boot time configuration data (BCD) similar to boot.ini used by NTLDR in Win XP and the earlier NT based Windows OS. BCD Edit is the command line tool to edit the Boot Time Configuration data. For more info on BCD Edit, read the following Microsoft Technet FAQ: (WS.10).aspx BootIt Next Generation is a partition and multi-boot manager by Terabyte. You can find more information on their Website.Vinod Message Edited by porevinod on 09:01 AM.

Norton Ghost is a tool for creating backups of your entire hard-drive that can be recovered any time, for example in the case of moving to a new system or a hardware failure. Backups can include either single files and folders, or entire partitions or drives. Norton Ghost offers incremental and differential backups that can be scheduled to run on a regular basis, e.g. At every system start or on an hourly/daily/weekly basis. Besides hard-drives and disks (CD/DVD/Blue Ray), Norton Ghost also supports Iomega Zip and Jaz, NAS, FTP, network drives and other local and remote storage.

Encryption, compression, integration of Google Desktop Search and remote management are additional features that make Norton Ghost a powerful and safe backup software.