Ghost: To write to an optical drive, use NTFS or FAT32 version?

[Muse]

I have Ghost 2001 and 2003 bootable CD's, and some write only to NTFS volumes and some only to FAT32 volumes. To Ghost a partition to a DVD-R, which version do I want to use?

 

[Muse]

One more question: I'm going to be Ghosting the HD in a new PC from Dell with Vista Home Premium installed on it. Can I Ghost that to a single DVD-R?

 

[0roo0roo]

huh? all that matters is that ghost version supports ntfs or not.
file system on cd/dvd is different and its just an image file anyways.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
huh? all that matters is that ghost version supports ntfs or not.
file system on cd/dvd is different and its just an image file anyways.

Um, it's been so long since I used Ghost that I don't remember. I thought the issue was partly what file system was being written to. Yes, the drive to be imaged is NTFS. What file system is going to be on the optical disk?

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Muse
One more question: I'm going to be Ghosting the HD in a new PC from Dell with Vista Home Premium installed on it. Can I Ghost that to a single DVD-R?

What about this question? What strategy can I use here? Spanned DVD-R's? Is it possible to Ghost the OS partition to itself? I suppose there's only going to be one partition on the HD. I'm bringing a USB HD with me (iRiver H140 with 40 GB HD, I believe formatted in FAT32), but doubt I can Ghost to that.

I figure I can maybe remove the HD from his old system and install it on his new system and Ghost to that!

 

[Nothinman]

The optical will have either ISO9660 or UDF depending on how Ghost does it, but the host filesystem is irrelevant in either case.

Ghost can write to any filesystem that the host OS it's running to can write to, so if you're running the 32-bit Windows version of Ghost inside of WinPE then you can write to FAT or NTFS. If you're running the DOS version of Ghost under DOS then you're stuck with just FAT. Either case can write to the network if it's properly setup in the OS before you start Ghost.

 

[alexruiz]

The repost / old threads police will kill me

Sorry for the way late answer, I juts found this thread. Ghost 2003 can read and write to NTFS natively.
I don't think one DVD-R will be enough, but give it a try.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: alexruiz
The repost / old threads police will kill me

Sorry for the way late answer, I juts found this thread. Ghost 2003 can read and write to NTFS natively.
I don't think one DVD-R will be enough, but give it a try.

I don't know about the cops but I thank you for keeping this thread alive. That info is handy and I'll likely use it today. But I'm thinking to ghost the partition to another drive/folder in anticipation of possibly restoring from there. Maybe I'll test first by ghosting and restoring a partition that's not too important. I'll be running ghost from a Ghost 2003 CD. I just installed XP into my alternate OS partition and did a ton of configurations adding applications/utilities. I'm nowhere near done but figure it might be a good time to stop and ghost. If things go awry I can restore to this state and take it from here, probably without undo annoyances.