Ghost and XP NTFS - can you use it?

[jpetermann]

I have heard som esay that they cannot read an NTFS formatted drive with Ghost 2001 to copy the drive to another. Is this true? And if so, what disk "Ghosting" program is out there that will. I always like to keep a backup drive, just in case I get to curious and really screw something up...

 

[JayBone]

I thought Ghost do a sector-by-sector copy of *any* file system; just it'll only work correctly if you put the image back onto a drive that's identical to the source drive. The dynamic resizing stuff won't work.
I've not used 2001, but I've used v5 and v6 to image ntfs 4 drives hundreds of times. I can't imagine that they'd remove functionality.

 

[cbuchach]

From my experience, Ghost had problems creating an image for a drive after I installed WinXP. WinXP changes something on NTFS volumes so that Ghost and programs like Partition Magic wouldn't work.

I would assume that Ghost 2002 (which is XP compatible) will work, though I have not yet tried it.

 

[Raincity]

Ghost 2001 and 2002 work fine in XP NTFS but you still cant write the ghost image file to a NTFS partition or drive, only to Fat/32 or to CDFS via CDR/CDRW.

Rain

 

[Need4Speed]

as far as i know, only ghost 2002 will work with XP NTFS...2001 will not.

 

[Raincity]

It works, I have done it in Ghost 7 PE

Rain

 

[darthmango]

ok, but what if i have two drives in raid, can i ghost?

 

[DarkFudge2000]

Folks since Im not really sure what the benefit of Ghost do...could someone give me a REAL WORLD situation or scenario where I would use GHOST and copied image of a drive?

I just would like to get an idea of the different uses of GHOST and how it could help me

thanks

 

[zzzz]

I use ghost to
make an image of the HD after I install OS and store that image to a HD. So if something goes wrong , I can restore it within 10 minutes.
Sometimes I also install drivers and some required apps like winamp, icq, office and make image.

System builders can install a OS on one computer and then use that image to setup computers with same hardware later on..

 

[Need4Speed]

If it works it works
I on the other had used ghost 2001 and it did not work on my XP RC2 NTFS partition...for what its worth.

 

[Raincity]

I believe that there is a update patch for it that got incoporated into Ghost via liveupdate. I formatted my drives in XP NTFS and installed XP and installed my drivers and saved it to a cdr via a Ghost 2001 floppy I created right before I attempted the XP install.

Rain

 

[Britboy]

How is it possible to Ghost XP to multiple CDR's. It's not clear in the user guide, but I got the impression that it would only ghost onto 1 CD, that you couldn't span CDs if your installation was too large. I know it will compress but my XP installation would'nt fit on one CD even with compression. I'd probably need 2-3 CD's to make it work. Is the disk spanning a function available in Ghost 2002?

 

[Raincity]

Yes and it does it automatically. It will tell how much space it will need before you commit to doing the partition dump.

Rain

 

[SunnyD]

In case you're interested, Microsoft has said that programs like ghost will NOT be able to replicate WinXP installs post activation. Well, sortof. They said that doing so will (if companies can figure out how to do a post-ghost replicate) cause product activation to be restarted - even in the corporate environment.

SunnyD

 

[RaiderJ]

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Folks since Im not really sure what the benefit of Ghost do...could someone give me a REAL WORLD situation or scenario where I would use GHOST and copied image of a drive?

I just would like to get an idea of the different uses of GHOST and how it could help me
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I use Ghost 2001 to backup the computer set up for about 25 people. It took me about a weekend to get it set up for everyone. I used ghost in combo with my cd burner to image the hard drive onto 2 discs in about 2 hours. A restore from the cd's took about 1/2 an hour. Much faster to restore than redo an entire system. That's what I use Ghost for.