Program to ghost hard drive

[I_Love_My_Vans]

I have just reinstalled Windows Vista for the 4th time this month, its getting a little annoying now.

I have a RAID0 drive, I do not want to use Norton Ghost, but I would like to make an image of the entire drive, just so in the future I can reinstate it, problem solved.

Any ideas? Thanks!

[drivenbywhat]

Have you tried Acronis True Image? Also, although I'm not 100% sure on this, not all cloning software supports anything other than a simple volume. Meaning, RAIDs are not doable. I could be wrong...

[Lerroy_Jenkins]

I think if it is a MOBO raid then ghosting works, if it is Software Raid then ghosting doesn't work.

[Hack]

There cetainly are alternatives to Norton Ghost, but I'm wondering why you don't want to use it. I've used it countless times without any problems at all.

[Lord Orwell]

the backup program that comes with vista has a "full system backup" option which backs up system files as well as system settings. Don't knock the simple route until you try it.

[stanav]

Acronis True Image is my favorite. You can create an image in Windows (instead of having to reboot in DOS mode), plus it supports a wide range of media (CD-R, DVD-R, network shares, USB drives...) and you can also create a bootable image disc. To me, this is the most useful feature since I can create a bootable disc and put the entire image on one DVD-R.