Originally posted by: Auric
Perhaps it is too much to hope for but can TI clone disks any quicker than Ghost? Is there a small (less than 1.44MB) self-contained DOS exectutable or does it require a Linux boot CD?
Quickness is relative to the size of the drive, the amount of data on it, and the CPU's speed. I don't know what Ghost does - I have never used it. Been cloning HDDs for years - and TI 9 takes about 13 minutes to clone a 80 GB drive with about 45 GB worth of data on it.
TI has always created bootable CDs (very automatically) that produce a Linux-based OS along with a GUI. It then can clone anything - USB, Firewire, NTFS, FAT32, etc. It can see all drives, internal and external.
I never run it from within Windows - I prefer a fully independent bit-by-bit copy without regard to sharing violations, etc.
Another advantage of the bootable CD is that is can then be used on any computer - and doesn't even have to be installed on it.