Best version of Ghost to use for imaging Vista?

[Andromeda43]

For a Ghost expert, you'll have to go to the Ghost Forum. (url not given, except by PM)

But from here, I'm probably as close to a Ghost expert as you're going to get.

I've been using it since its release in 1997.

Ghost 2003, build 793, works great for Vista and any other NTFS or FAT-32 based OS.

It's the last version small enough to run from a single floppy disk. (the way Ghost was originally intended to run)

But, Ghost was written to boot from a floppy disk, so give it one.

Install a USB floppy disk drive ($19 to $29 from most sources).

All new motherboards have the ability to boot to an A: prompt from a USB floppy drive.

Then Ghost 2003 will put itself on the DVD making it bootable. Job completed!

I have a floppy drive in every one of my own computers, but I've used the USB Floppy Drive on many other PC's and Ghost is quite happy using it. That's the simple answer to your problem.

To work with most new mobo's, Ghost must be at version 793.

Older versions will lock up when trying to seek the drives on the system.

It just can't see them. I had to upgrade to ver 793 when I began using an AMD 939 mobo.

Also.....Most new mobo's present a SATA drive to Ghost just like an IDE drive. NO special SATA drivers are needed.

At least, that's been my own experience.

Good Luck,

Andromeda B)