

After the Windows ADK has finished installing, it is now time to install Ghost Solution Suite.Installing Ghost Solution Suite 3.1.ĭownload Ghost Solution Suite 3.1 from your account dashboard at My. Ghost Solution Suite only requires the boxes that are checked in the screenshot below, feel free to install all features that fit your needs. Choose whether to opt in or out of the windows program, and then accept the Windows agreement on the next screen. Run the adksetup.exe file and select a location to install.It is recommended to install the ADK into the default directory suggested by the installer. You can use multiple versions, but you will need to rename the adksetup file for each version as you download it, as Microsoft has the installers named the same. Windows ADK can be downloaded from, select the WinPE 10 download link.always download the ADK version that is specified in the Ghost Solution Suite requirements. Use this command line, replacing the drive letter with the path to your source media: Command Prompt: DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /LimitAccess /Source:d:sourcessxs)Installing Windows ADK & WinPE. Follow the instructions in the Microsoft MSDN article.(Short Version - make sure to have your OS Install media, then run an elevated command prompt. If.Net is not there, your ON BOX SQL Express installation, if you choose this route, will fail. You must install this manually on the Windows 10 or Server 2012 or higher OS using a DISM command. I really hope my test results were wrong and it actually pretty fast and solid, so that I could use it again.This document will help to explain the install process of Windows ADK and a Simple install of Ghost Solution Suite 3.1.Please review the before installing Ghost Solution Suite.NOTE: There are certain prerequisites that must be met.Installing Microsoft.Net 3.5When using SQL Express 2012 or newer ON BOX.Net 3.5 is needed. Please compare it with other popular imaging software in terms of speed and compression.

It appears Symantec did not catch up with the young, modern competitors and lacks a lot in speed and compression.Īnyone interested in testing out the latest 12. It brings back so much memory when I did disk imaging back in teh XP days, when I used a boot CD to run the DOS version of Symantec Ghost v8.2. To me, Symantec Ghost Enterprise version has so much memory and it gives me nostalgia because it still has the same GUI. The same task only took Drive Snapshot 3.3min to complete with a much smaller image (~25GB in size).

If choose either "low" or "high" compression, Ghost would take 15-25 min to finish. With "No compression" Ghost would take >10min to finish on my I7-2700K with 8GB RAM desktop.
