What do you folks recommend for "Drive Imaging"?

[JCKC]

Have a new rig that went into operation this weekend. Other than the DVD burner, it does not use any IDE drives. Instead, I am using two Seagate 160gb SATA drives.

My old version of Norton Ghost (2002), which works at the DOS level, does not recognize the existence of the SATA drives.

So what can I use to maintain an "image" of my SATA boot drive, backing it up onto the second SATA drive?

Thanks all.

 

[Robor]

Are you sure Ghost 2002 doesn't recognize your SATA controller/drives? I have Ghost 9 and Ghost 2003 but don't have Ghost 2002. Does Ghost 2002 boot the system to a command prompt? If so, boot to it and change directory to the Support folder on the CD. In there should be ghost.exe. Run it and see if it detects your drives. I know I've used Ghost 2003 to dump an image of one SATA drive to another.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

I use Ghost 8.2 and it works fine with my PC.

 

[sep]

TrueImage I was able to download a trial version, 30 days, mirror my sata drive to a IDE. Free and worked like a charm! -JC

 

[BZGuy]

Try booting from the floppy drive then running Ghost using the -fni switch... i.e.

a:\ghost.exe -fni

I was able to make an image of my existing IDE drive to a new SATA drive this way.

 

[JCKC]

Thanks for the help thus far folks.

Using the -fni switch to load GHOSTPE.EXE from a bootable CD-ROM allowed me to see the source partition on my SATA boot drive. How can I save the partition to an image file on the second SATA drive? It doesn't appear I'm given an option.

I'm reviewing my user guide now and all of the possible switch combinations, but if some one can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks as always.