"Rock" wrote in message
...
"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote

Bite your tongue. They gobbled up Powerquest and Drive Image some time
ago. Still use that on XP. Just moved to ATI for Vista. Symantec tends
to ruin everything they buy, though they did take the good features of DI
and moved them into Ghost. I haven't worked with any of the Ghost
versions.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

Well, they just bought Altris, which we used at work for ghosting images via
the network PXE options
http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/or...241137,00.html

I don't know who's left, but Acronis

I started playing with Norton Ghost 9.0, after they put in DI's feature to
do a live image. Prior to that little feature, I was doing the old boot from
floppy approach. So 9.0 and above are much better than the other versions I
had played with.

"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote

"Rock" wrote

"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote

Bite your tongue. They gobbled up Powerquest and Drive Image some time
ago. Still use that on XP. Just moved to ATI for Vista. Symantec tends
to ruin everything they buy, though they did take the good features of DI
and moved them into Ghost. I haven't worked with any of the Ghost
versions.

Well, they just bought Altris, which we used at work for ghosting images
via the network PXE options
http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/or...241137,00.html

I don't know who's left, but Acronis

I started playing with Norton Ghost 9.0, after they put in DI's feature to
do a live image. Prior to that little feature, I was doing the old boot
from floppy approach. So 9.0 and above are much better than the other
versions I had played with.

Yes it is a nice feature in DI to do an image from inside XP. Acronis
manages that as well in XP and Vista. I sure hope Symantec doesn't gobble
them up to.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

Rock wrote:
"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote

"Rock" wrote

"Dale "Mad_Murdock" White" wrote

Bite your tongue. They gobbled up Powerquest and Drive Image some
time ago. Still use that on XP. Just moved to ATI for Vista.
Symantec tends to ruin everything they buy, though they did take the
good features of DI and moved them into Ghost. I haven't worked with
any of the Ghost versions.

Well, they just bought Altris, which we used at work for ghosting
images via the network PXE options
http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/or...241137,00.html


I don't know who's left, but Acronis

I started playing with Norton Ghost 9.0, after they put in DI's
feature to do a live image. Prior to that little feature, I was doing
the old boot from floppy approach. So 9.0 and above are much better
than the other versions I had played with.

Yes it is a nice feature in DI to do an image from inside XP. Acronis
manages that as well in XP and Vista. I sure hope Symantec doesn't
gobble them up to.

Acronis has so many troubles of their own that I don't know that
transferring development to Symantec could be any worse. I don't recall
an upgrade in the entire industry in the last 20 years, Vista included,
that had as many bugs as TI9. I skipped it entirely. Because of some
functionality problems, I was "forced" to get the TI10 upgrade, and it's
been problem-free, so far. Also, Acronis Tech Support is very involved
with the user forums on their site, and that's something you certainly
don't see with other companies (Corsair being the exception that comes
to mind).

Ron

Why not post this in the Vista general group? It's not a setup question.

CH

"Jerry Hughes" wrote in message
news
Hello,
I've been trying to upgrade my notebook so it will be compatible with
Vista (running XP now) and have only been halfway successful. Then, on
the
Microsoft site, I read that when installing Vista, Vista will
automatically
search for program upgrades and updates. Does that mean that I won't have
to
worry much about updating my drivers , etc. because Vista will
automatically
update my system before it installs? Sounds too good to be true. Anyone
have any info on this? Or if I have done most of the updating already,
should
I still allow Vista to try to upgrade my drivers? Thank you for any
information.
Jerry

Because this is arguable a installation type question ? Though in this case,
Pre-installtion.

"Chad Harris" vistaneedsmuchowork.net wrote in message
...
Why not post this in the Vista general group? It's not a setup question.

CH

"Jerry Hughes" wrote in message
news
Hello,
I've been trying to upgrade my notebook so it will be compatible with
Vista (running XP now) and have only been halfway successful. Then, on
the
Microsoft site, I read that when installing Vista, Vista will
automatically
search for program upgrades and updates. Does that mean that I won't
have to
worry much about updating my drivers , etc. because Vista will
automatically
update my system before it installs? Sounds too good to be true. Anyone
have any info on this? Or if I have done most of the updating already,
should
I still allow Vista to try to upgrade my drivers? Thank you for any
information.
Jerry