Norton Ghost 10

[SonnyDaze]

Okay so I'm doing a fresh Windows XP install after purchasing a new 74GB Raptor . I would like to make an image of my OS drive (I'll have two seperate drives, both 74G raptors). I plan on 1)Installing XP 2)Installing drivers (chipset, video) 3)Activating XP. Then I'd like to make the image. In Norton Ghost, do I "copy the Hard drive" or "make a recovery point"?? TIA.

 

[BlueWeasel]

I haven't used Ghost since v7 or so. Do you see an option to "Copy partition to image"?

"Copy the HD" is probably designed for doing a bit-for-bit copy to a 2nd drive. "Make a recovery point" seems right, but that makes me concerned it's part of Windows System Recovery.

A response from another Ghost 10 user should fix this right up.

 

[Ryland]

Well "Copy the harddrive" should make a copy from a source to a destination. It does sound like you want a recovery point. Im gonna be pissed if they dumbed the interface down even furthur from Ghost 9.0.

 

[SonnyDaze]

I've never used Norton Ghost before so I don't know the differences in ver 9 or ver 10. I've been thumbing through the manual and have seen recovery point and hard drive copy but haven't seen anything mentioned of disk imaging, which I think is what I want to do. My goal is to be able to restore my OS drive to a fresh install (when needed) without having to go through a XP install and activation each time. (If that makes sense) It gets old having to call India because you have "activated" your XP key too many times for Micro$oft's liking.

 

[Zugzwang152]

In Ghost 2003, you choose either Local->Disk->To Image, or Local->Partition->To Image, depending on whether you'd like to capture the entire disk (all its parititions), or just your Windows partition.


The UI has changed quite a bit since Ghost 2003, so I'm not too sure of the exact options now.