Make a Norton Ghost Image?

[techwanabe]

True, but I was originally noticing the comment that I quoted saying that Ghost image has to be saved to a fat16 or fat32 partion. But we are saving it to NTFS partitions.

However, even home users with more than one computer with home networks (peer to peer) may find it useful to save an image to another computer. It probably wouldn't be TCPIP tho.

 

[BreakApart]

<< True, but I was originally noticing the comment that I quoted saying that Ghost image has to be saved to a fat16 or fat32 partion. But we are saving it to NTFS partitions.

However, even home users with more than one computer with home networks (peer to peer) may find it useful to save an image to another computer. It probably wouldn't be TCPIP tho. >>

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Technically when you save an image over a network the way you describe its not being saved in NTFS format.
Example:
Can Win98 read from an NTFS drive that is installed locally? (2nd drive or slave drive) No it can't
However can Win98 read an NTFS drive installed into another computer? (say NT or Win2000) Yes it can

The reason for this is Win98 isn't technically reading or saving NTFS, it is reading Network translated files-(middle man language through a NIC) Basically the same thing is happening when you ghost over a network from NTFS onto NTFS the program is only sending the image file to the Network card to be translated, so technically you could send those files to ANY format-mac, unix, etc.
Local images will still need the FAT/FAT32 formats...

Hopefully this clears some things up
Ghosting over a network is a real jump forward in cloning abilities, it won't be long and we will be able to clone our computers onto those USB keychains. Plug it in to clone, and then plug it in and restore.
Good Luck

 

[KnickNut3]

I think, with the USB support, you can theoretically plug in to clone and restore.

If I do it over the network to my Win98 machine with FAT32, then copy it back over to NTFS, would that be OK? Thanks for the info.

 

[Muse]

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<< The ghost image HAS to be saved onto either a FAT or FAT32 partition. (FAT is limited to 2Gig normally, so just use a FAT32 it's easier)
This FAT/FAT32 partition HAS to be different than the one you are ghosting....it can be on the same disk, but it HAS to be a different partition. You can use a totally different disk also...
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I've been using Ghost regularly now at work using images created by a computer consultant for our office. All the images are NT4.0 NTFS saved to an NTFS partition on a W2k system. Seems like the image will size itself to the hard drive used. We normally use Ghost boot disks to start up the computer needing to be imaged. Then using multicast server option across the network, we send the image from the Win2K machine to the computer being imaged. I never need to be concerned about how the destination hard drive is partitioned. We can take a system save it back to the W2k system. Thats all I've ever done except make new Ghost boot disks for systems with different NICs so they will boot up and see the network and use TCPIP DHCP for IP addressing. >>

You are using Ghost Enterprise Edition. Vanilla flavour Ghost does not support writing to NTFS partitions, and most of the other stuff you are referring to here.