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benjamit

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what is it exactly and how does it work?

does it copy everything? file structure, partitions, os, apps, drivers, user settings?

can you image a drive that the image program is running from and get a fully image, including the image program?

what image programs are most reliable and work well?

i have ghost that came on system works 2000 but the suite only works on 9x platform, not nt

i suppose you would image your hdd to a cdrw or cdr
 
ghost and drive image.
Ghost 2001 has support for win2k but doesn't allow you to write to a NTFS disk.(It can image them but to store the image you should have a fat/fat32 drive)
Drive image can write to NTFS.
 
i've used ghost before when i was running 98 but now my main box is 2k and the version i have, the suite, won't load right on nt platform

plus the ghost image seem too superficial to have a full hdd

does it really work well?

how do you restore?

do you suggest drive image s/w?

any other s/w names?
 
so the imaging will copy the os, apps, drivers, and user settings?

and nothing else like the file structure and partitions?

can i restore an image to a blank hdd that has only a file structure and any partition that i want [given the partition is large enough for the image]?

or do i need to have a working os and the imaging program to restore the hdd?


i would like to know these things so that i could use imaging as a quick and effective method of restoring a complete hdd


i once had a restore cd from a laptop, the cd was bootable and had the os and the drivers

i would like to make something similar only have user settings and apps included in the cd
 
Ghost will copy basically everything including the file structure, partitions, os, apps, drivers, user settings..it'll make an exact copy of A partition but it won't do multiple partitions at the same time, and no you can't "dump" an image to the same drive that is being ghosted. Either setup another partition, or get a cd burner to make the image. This all should be done through DOS, so if your in win2k/me just take an old win9x bootdisk and stick ghost (it's only about 650k) on it and boot from that, and then run ghost..
 
thanks for the input

so if i have ghost on c: with os, drivers, apps, and user settings i can ghost an image to cdrw d: for example?

then if i have a new blank hdd no file structure or partitions, etc

i can boot off 98 floppy (with cdrom support) with ghost on it and run ghost image from cdrom

this image can then be directly applied to blank hdd?

thanks
 
is either of these 2 s/w more reliable than the other

i've gotten to not like norton products

and most s/w utils to me have become bloatware

i know i don't like norton antivirus
 
Powerquest drive copy or drive image pro... or a program called Drive2Drive are the best.
Study both before you use them........
 
I have limited experience with Norton Ghost, but I'll try to help.

I have not copied multiple partitions, just entire disks. I know it's best to use Ghost in DOS. Just make a Ghost Boot floppy, using the Ghost utility, run in Windows. It gives you options to make a floppy w/w/o CDRom support, so you can copy from CDR's. You set BIOS to boot from floppy, boot w/the Ghost floppy in there. Takes about 90 seconds to load up, then it's a drop-menu deal. Very intuitive.

Just for grins, I copied about 10 gigs of data to CDR's. It took 9 CDRs (compressed) but, you can copy all that info to your new HD.

I don't think you can copy partition-to-partition on the same physical drive.

I do know that Norton copies everything. OS, whether you have NTFS/FAT32, all that.

I made a copy of a single HD to a 2-drive RAID 0 array and didn't even have to format the new drives first! :Q Up and running perfectly for two weeks now.

Hope this helped. Good luck.
 
thanks guys

i'll look into these

i suppose i should have been using something like this earlier since i reformat 3-6 mos
 
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