norton ghost 2002 advice

[lankor]

i am new to norton ghost 2002.
i have a 60 gig harddisk that is partitioned into 20 gig each(1)OS+software,(2) miscellaneous files, (3)

i have booted to dos mode with a pc dos norton boot disk
I will like to create an image file- for eg. create an f:\image file and leave it in partioned drive G.

will that be possible

cheers, any help will be greatly appreciated
Winxp on NTFS

 

[Bglad]

Don't exactly understand what you are trying to do. What are your drives F and G? Are they cd-roms or rw's or do you have another hard drive partitioned to F and G? Regardless, this should be no problem at all. You need to be more specific as to what the problem is.

A couple of suggestions. Make a new boot disk and use MS-DOS rather than the pc-dos from Ghost. It may save you some headaches. You will have to insert a boot floppy when you make the new Ghost boot disk.

Most importantly, run the check on your images after imaging your partitions.

 

[bunker]

I have 2002 as well and recently did an OS reload. I have two partitions and didn't see a way to ghost only one of the partitions, it made me ghost the whole drive.

How do you do just a partition?

 

[lankor]

sorry for the lack of information.

Drive C, Drive F and Drive G are all a single harddisk partitioned into 3 parts.

I will like to create an image file on drive F and leave it on drive G.

Will this be possible..

cheers

 

[Bglad]

bunker:
you just go to image > partition
you have to image partition a onto b and vice versa. you can't image a partition to itself..

lanker:
you want to create an image on f or of f? if you want to create an image on f like you said, then why do you want to move it to g? why don't you just image it to g? still not enough info. which partition are you trying to backup and where do you want to write the image to, and where do you want to store the image? i think you may need to go through the ghost manual.

i think you are wanting to backup f to the g. then just follow the prompts. image > partition then tell it the source and destination partitions.

 

[RalfHutter]

If all your partitions are NTFS you're screwed. Ghost won't copy to NTFS, you'll have to create a FAT32 partition to store your images.

That issue, and the stupid serial number thing is one of the reasons I use Drive Image.

 

[Bglad]

If all your partitions are NTFS you're screwed. Ghost won't copy to NTFS, you'll have to create a FAT32 partition to store your images.

This is totally not true. Version 2002, which is what he says he has, works just fine with NTFS. I've done it many times.

 

[Rob G.]

I think Ralf is referring to the fact that Ghost (2002 or otherwise) cannot save an image file onto an NTFS partition. It can clone and restore NTFS fine, but it can't save an image file to it. Drive Image can

 

[Bglad]

Maybe I am mistaken, but I'm not understanding the distinction you are making. Could you elaborate?

 

[Bglad]

Ok, now I'm starting to get it. Maybe I haven't tried this. I thought I had tested all the possibilities when I was testing Win 2k.

The question is, how the H*LL can Symantec say that their product is XP compatible if you can't image one NTFS partition to another?

 

[Rob G.]

>> "if you can't image one NTFS partition to another? "

You can. I'm talking about an image file.

In Drive Image, if you backup a partition or disk to an image file, you have the option of saving it into any FAT, FAT32 or NTFS partitions on the system. Or CD-R.

In Ghost, you only have the option of saving the image file onto FAT/FAT32 partitions or CD-R.

If you want to restore an image file, or clone a partition, then both apps can do NTFS. Ghost's limitation only applies when saving the actual image file somewhere on the system.

 

[Bglad]

Thats exactly my point. I'm talking image files here too. I just bought another copy of Ghost and am about to switch systems to Win2k and all partitions to NTFS.

This means I have to have a backup drive running FAT. I could not for example image my C: NTFS partition to an image on my D: NTFS partition.

To me, CD backup is just not practical. First, I've found the CD backups to be unreliable. Second, its too much trouble to switch all those CD's. Third, CDRW's have to be completely erased before Ghost will access them. A quick erase won't work so this takes 20 min per CD. So backing up to CD and then running the image check is just way too big a pain.

I've done an awful lot of reading here and it seems Symantec dances around this point adroitly. Not being able to write an image file to the NTFS format seems like quite a limitation for a product made for the purpose of writing image files and that clearly says compatable with NT/2K/XP.

 

[Rob G.]

Bglad - I bought Drive Image 5 a while back and didn't even know it supported NTFS *properly*. The main reason I got it was because it didn't have that brain-dead license key prompt like Ghost 2002. Finding that it could create image files directly onto NTFS partitions was a nice surprise.

>> "seems like quite a limitation for a product made for the purpose of writing image files and that clearly says compatable with NT/2K/XP"

It is indeed. Symantec should have got this sorted out instead of implementing useless license key prompts that do nothing but piss people off.