Ghost: any way to save an image directly onto another HDD?

[Yossarian]

I want to image my C drive and save it on my D in case of trouble. When I boot with a Ghost floppy, the only drives available to save to are the floppy and my CD-RW. Any way around this?

 

[SaigonK]

Are you're drives both NTFS? ?
Are they on a Raid or PCI controller??

Need more info 🙂

 

[IamDavid]

Ya, there is something up. You should have the option to ghost to another drive.

 

[Yossarian]

Both NTFS, on the same IDE channel. The source drive is the master, destination is slave. I can ghost the C drive to CD-RW no problem.

 

[Rob G.]

Ghost can't save an image file onto an NTFS formatted partition. You'll either have to use a FAT32 partition or buy Drive Image instead (which can write an image onto NTFS quite happily 🙂)

 

[Yossarian]

Thanks for your reply though it makes me sad. Do you know why this is?

 

[TallBill]

You can buy a raid-1 card.. that basically keeps two hard drives, and keeps them identical... and the pc only recognizes one.. if either goes down, it auto-switches to only the other.. and u can rebuild easily with a new drive... i use a product called Duplidisk at work.. downside is.. its around 200 bucks

 

[zzzz]

You can just create a fat-32 partition to store the images. That is the least costly method. Otherwise you can always buy Drive Image.
If there is nothing on your slave drive, then delete the partition and recreate a fat-32 partition.