evilpeppard Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Hello all. I recently purchased two Corsair Accelerator 60GB SSD cache drives for my and my wife's gaming rigs. The drives installed easily and are working great! I regularly Ghost my computers using Symantec Ghost. This morning it was time to Ghost my machines again. I booted up from my Ghost CD as normal, picked my boot drive to Ghost and started the process like I always do. The Ghost completed in about ten seconds, and appears to only have copied about 500MB of data. I have about 120GB of data that normally gets copied. The Ghosting process normally takes about 90 - 120 minutes. I doubled checked that I didn't select the wrong drive (I have two hard drives in the computer, plus the Accelerator). I started the process again and got the same result. In my Ghost list of drives, the top drive has always been my boot or C: drive, which is the drive I was selecting. Is there a known issue that boot drives will not Ghost correctly after installing an Accelerator cache drive? I depend on regular Ghosts of my machines for piece of mind, so I would like to get this resolved as soon as possible. Thank you in advance for any suggestions or assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyvee Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I use Acronis but basically you have to uninstall dataplex , image your machine and then re-install . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilpeppard Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 I use Acronis but basically you have to uninstall dataplex , image your machine and then re-install . Really? How cumbersome is that! I am surprised that even at a "DOS" level the Dataplex software comes into play. I thought the Dataplex software didn't even engage till Windows 7 was booting up. Is there any negative effects from uninstalling and reinstalling the Dataplex every month or so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyvee Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 All i know is you can't do anything with either drives outside of dataplex / windows else you will end up with corruption etc . I clone my boot drive ~ 4-6 weeks and it only adds 10 min to the entire procedure so no real hardship and no problems with the reinstalls of dataplex , just make sure you have your key and are attached to the web each time you uninstall / reinstall , saves a key reset mail later down the line . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilpeppard Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 All i know is you can't do anything with either drives outside of dataplex / windows else you will end up with corruption etc . I clone my boot drive ~ 4-6 weeks and it only adds 10 min to the entire procedure so no real hardship and no problems with the reinstalls of dataplex , just make sure you have your key and are attached to the web each time you uninstall / reinstall , saves a key reset mail later down the line . Ok. Thank you for the information. I will go the route of uninstalling the Dataplex software each time, then reinstalling it after my Ghosting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilpeppard Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 Btw, I ended up trying the Windows 7 built in Backup and Restore and it seemed to back everything up just like I would expect. I will try taking out my current boot (C:) drive, installing a new drive, then testing the restore using the recovery CD that was created in the process to see how that works, but I suspect it will work just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyvee Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Btw, I ended up trying the Windows 7 built in Backup and Restore and it seemed to back everything up just like I would expect. I will try taking out my current boot (C:) drive, installing a new drive, then testing the restore using the recovery CD that was created in the process to see how that works, but I suspect it will work just fine. If Dataplex was installed and running , installing that to a new drive may have issues but should be ok on the original . I prefer imaging tbh , in the last 5 years i have had to go use them 2 times when i had either soft or hard errors and they have worked with no issues , back up and running in less than 2 hours both times . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilpeppard Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 If Dataplex was installed and running , installing that to a new drive may have issues but should be ok on the original . I prefer imaging tbh , in the last 5 years i have had to go use them 2 times when i had either soft or hard errors and they have worked with no issues , back up and running in less than 2 hours both times . I fully agree, I prefer a solid image. Luckily, I have only had to resort to reverting to an image a couple times, but when I did, I was back up and running like nothing ever happened. I still will test the Windows 7 recovery process, but I feel most confident with a full Ghost image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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