[dba-Tech] Bad drive

Hi Jim,
I used to use PowerQuest Drive Image and Partition Magic. Now I use Norton
Ghost and Partition M but have been checking into proactively replacing
these for sometime as Symantec seems intent on ruining everything they touch
these days.

So far I'm leaning towards Acronis True Image. Acronis seems to be as good
or better than the pre-Norton PowerQuest products and it seems to be the one
most techy sites recommend. I'm presently looking for a good open source
disk imager and partitioner...

Good luck,
John B.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 5:33 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] Bad drive

I have a bad drive that is failing slowly. It is one of my servers and
though all the individual files are backed up I would like to do an image
restore as apposed to a re-install. 

What program would you recommend to do a complete image backup so a new
drive can be image resorted?

One program that I have looked at is DriveImage XML
(http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm) but I have heard nothing good or bad
about this app.

MTIA

Jim

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