Norton Ghost 2001 Question

[Kindjal]

I have a 40GB drive, no partitions, with 4GB of data I would like to ghost. I would like to send the image across my home network to the 2nd partition on my laptop. So far I have been unsuccessfull in finding the laptop's 2nd partion when booting from the Ghost bootdisk.

How many CDR's would it take to Ghost 4GB's of data (6?)?

Can anyone lend a hand? Thanks!

 

[zzzz]

ghost 2001 can not write to NTFS partitions. So if your laptop has NTFS partitions, it won't see them.
I would use partition magic to create a partition on your 40 gb HD. Much easier.
I think ghost compresses by half. So about 2 Gb ~3-4 CD's.

 

[Bglad]

I second this. I had the same problem and it took me some time to figure out the best way to do it. There is supposedly a way to do it but you have to do it from the command line and the ghost commands are VERY cryptic and difficult. Support is poor. Easiest way is to partition your drive, ghost one partition to the other then transfer the image to wherever you want to save it. Problem is, if you have it on your laptop and your drive actually crashes, your network will be down and you can't restore over the network. I've not found an easy solution to this.

I now partition C: for windows ONLY. A ghost image of this will easily fit on a CDR. Then in case of catastrophe, I can restore that then replace everything else.