It would be nice to know what is out there. Therefore, I have not used anything else. I am a little hesitant to use back up software from unknown sources or not well known products. Thankfully through this forum, I was able to get Ghost 12.x (GSS 3.3 RU8 as a boot image & 3.2RU6 as installation media).
This has worked well until I got my new HP ZBook G8 with M.2 PCI 4 SSDs. This gives me the boot environment with a command prompt, windows command line tools, and ghost. I built this with the Windows ADK (with a script to remember how to recreate it).
I have switched my environment to use Win PE based on Windows 10 2004. If these steps are desired, please let me know. When restoring, if it was onto a new computer or to a system with a replaced hard drive/SSD there were a few steps to follow to have the system booting after the initial restore (to rebuild the boot system partition using Windows commands). Yes, even with Windows 7, 8.x, and 10 (on a Dell M6800 and other computers of that vintage). That has worked well with (at the time) my Ghost V10.x. In the past, I ran ghost from a Win 98 DOS boot environment. (I personally like VMware workstation) I believe Windows Explorer was able to mount it as well - like Ghost Explorer can mount a Ghost image. On the plus side, if you happen to use Hyper-V, the image was mountable in a Hyper-V VM.
With compression, Ghost was faster (assuming you have a reasonably fast processor). The Ghost compressed image was significantly smaller No compression - backup image was the size of the original partition. Only one backup image can be saved into the back up partition I had several issues with the MS backup including (my top list of complaints): I forgot to mention, the new system is an HP ZBook G8Ĭlick to expand.Years ago I tried the Microsoft backup "built into" Windows 7 - after years of using Ghost V10.x. I am hoping this will work so that I have a recovery point as I test and play with things on the system. I am in the process of recreating a new image of the partition with 12.9. I was worried about having to rebuild the new system and use my licenses another time (and then the Microsoft license count may run out). After that I was able to boot the system. After that I booted the new computer, from the Ghost 12.9 media and tried a partition to partition image from the externally USB attached HDD to the internal M.2 SSD partition. I ended up taking the image file to another older computer and restoring it to a GPT based hard drive with a partition of the same size using my original Ghost 11.
That said, it failed to restore the image into the original partition with the same error. I found that it was able to read the image that I created with GSS 2.5.1 (Ghost 11.) when I performed a check image file. I found a copy of the boot images for both the 32-bit and 64-bit Ghost 12.9 (just determined this was 3.3 RU8) a few pages back.
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