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Mirror your hard drive: two disk-copying utilities reviewed

By Robert Vamosi, CNET.com
February 15, 2005
URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/reviews/software/productivity/soa/Mirror-your-hard-drive-two-disk-copying-utilities-reviewed/0,139023447,139181204,00.htm

If you need to roll out a standard software configuration across more than one desktop or laptop, you'll need an app that can make a mirror image of an existing hard drive.

For years, the venerable favourite for this process has been Norton Ghost, which used to require a reboot to DOS. With Symantec's acquisition of PowerQuest Drive Image, Norton Ghost 9.0 can now mirror a hard drive's contents without rebooting out of Windows. But that's something that Acronis True Image has been able to do for years. Add to the fact that True Image is much faster than Ghost and can also repartition and reformat a drive (something that Ghost still can't do), and you'll see why Acronis True Image is our Editors' Choice.

Acronis True Image 8.0
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Acronis True Image 8.0 is a first-class imaging program that makes it easy to copy the contents of a hard drive to removable media or to a separate disk or partition. We recommend it.

Norton Ghost 9.0
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Norton Ghost, once the drive-copying software of choice, doesn't have the performance or the breadth of tools offered by rival Acronis True Image.