When using Norton Ghost to recover an image, does it have to be the exact same hard drive?

[Skiguy411]

When using Norton Ghost to recover an image, does it have to be the exact same hard drive? I heard that it had to be, but I may have heard wrong. I want to take the current hard drive of mine (Western Digital 20 gigabyte), create an image of it, put the image on a second hard drive ( WD 80 gig) and then put it on a new WD Raptor.

To do this I just have to use the backup feature to create the image, then put windows xp and norton ghost on the Raptor, then use the restore feature to put the image on the raptor right? It will be an exact clone of the old 20 gig? I dont wanna loose my current data and dont wanna have to reinstall a bunch of programs.

 

[Budman]

It will work fine,and no need to install the os on the target drive,make yourself a ghost boot disk & then just ghost from image file on your 80gig to your target drive (raptor).

 

[CelticDemolition]

nah... just make sure you have enough space. the computer you push the image to has to be the same though, or you'll get nasty driver errors.

 

[CelticDemolition]

hehe sorry.. budman posted while i was writing my post. see? two ppl say it will work... youre set.