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"The best for techs imaging workstations"
Pros: DOS, so it's easy to make bootable media
Cons: None that I know of
Summary: I create images of Windows XP and our standard applications that are deployed on desktops and notebooks. Ghost 2003 is the perfect tool for the job.
Once the original computer is ready to be imaged, I run sysprep and it shuts down. Then I boot up Ghost 2003 and image the drive to an external USB hard drive. Because Ghost 2003 is DOS-based, I was able to easily make the external drive bootable directly into Ghost! This saves a lot of time and trouble. I also have a bootable USB key for slightly different circumstances. Since Ghost 2003's executable is only 0.98MB, it will fit on anything you can boot from.
Restoring the image to a new workstation is just as easy. I just boot off of the external USB drive, select the proper image and in about five minutes the computer is booting into the Windows mini-setup.
Ghost 9.0 is worthless for what I do, because it is designed to work within Windows. My images must be made when Windows isn't running. Symantec must have realized the issue, as they provide 2003 in the 9.0 package.
