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Drive imaging software

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downhiller80

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I'm selling my Seagates so I can get one of them new fangled 75GXp thingies.

In the meantime I need to transfer 25Gb off of my Promise Fasttrak 66 NTFS RAID 0 partition to a 27Gb 34GXp drive that I have "spare".

What software should I use? Norton ghost looks too confusing and is not clear if it works iwth NTFS, RAID & win 2000! Also it's pretty expensive . . .

I'm looking at Powerquests drive copy and drive image. What's the difference? Image costs 3x as Copy - will I ever need to use it's features . . .

Also what's the difference between DC 2 and DC 3?

Cheers,

Seb
 
I use Powerquest Drive Image myself and I have been very pleased with it. Drive Copy is a very good, simple straightforward program if all you want to do is copy one hard drive to another and it will resize the partition accordinly to fit the new Drive if you so desire.
Drive Image is a much more powerful program that allows you to save an image of your hard drive to a separate partition or drive for archiving purposes so that if you need to, you can restore your entire operating system in a matter of minutes. Drive Copy is included with Drive Image.
I frequently back up my hard drive with Drive Image and with approx.
5 Gig of data on my drive it takes about 10 minutes with UDMA66 to back up or restore.
 
OK I've just been searching some old posts and it seems that some versions of ghost will work with
  • Windows 2000
  • NTFS
  • Promise Fasttrak RAID 0
My question now is what version do I need and is there a link for a trial version?

Also could someone do me a quick tutorial on how to use ghost because when I installed it a while ago it gave me all this crap like multicast & enterprise crap which I don't think I need. Why can't they just have an icon saying "clone disk now"?

Seb
 
hanginon: what is the point of imaging? Surely I can use DC to do a backup with out the need to "image" it. Just use DC to clone hard disk to backup hard disk . . . what does imaging mean???

Seb
 
I was deciding between Ghost and Drive Copy not too long ago and I went with drive copy because it was cheaper, but once I started using it I couldn't stand it, I returned it and went with norton ghost (which I had used the trial version of previously). much better!
 
i got ghost with systemworks pro, and it rocks. remember, ghost can READ from NTFS, but not WRITE to them. so store your image elsewhere, or burn them. drive image is good too, so i hear.

and i have backed up my FAT32 RAID0 partitions, so don't worry about problems either...
 
As hanginon said, check PQ's site. I believe you can run DI from DOS just via floppy and it should be able to image FAT16, FAT32, NTFS. Both read and write them.
--Randy
 
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