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Norton Ghost vs. Drive Image vs. ??
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:21:35 GMT
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Well my current HD has gotten a bit too small (or I've got a bit too much
crud, er, useful stuff packratted away).. I've lined up a larger one, and I
have an extra drive cradle so I can put both in my laptop at once (as well
as an external floppy to boot from if I need to).
I want to image my current drive to the new one, leaving it formatted as one
big NTFS partition (I'm running Win2000). I can't just copy, because I want
the registry, drivers, etc etc. all set up the same. The drive that will get
slammed currently has a different OS on it (Win 2000 Server) which I don't
want. It is important that after the image happens, I have all the leftover
free space available to me in the same volume.
I have been doing some research and can't quite tell if Ghost or Drive Image
is the way to go (didn't see any other alternatives). Both have quite
negative reviews as well as quite positive if you search around. I have a
copy of the Ghost 2002 manual as a .pdf (you can download it from
symantec... props to them for that) and it claims it supports NTFS which is
quite important. (some of the reviews say it does not)
Any of you have experience with either and/or words of wisdom/caution? It's
gotta be done soon, I am down to my last 2G of free space and the system's
thrashing for lack of space when I do defrags.
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Message has 5 Replies:
 | | Re: Norton Ghost vs. Drive Image vs. ??
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| (...) Speaking as someone who has much experience with Norton's Ghost, I have to say that I like it a lot. I haven't used Drive Image, so I can't say anything about it. I haven't used the latest version, so some of what I'm about to say may be (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: Norton Ghost vs. Drive Image vs. ??
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| Well, we used an older version of Ghost at PGP, and it was good for what we used it for - restoring a standard image to a pc. This is not what you're asking though, since you want to restore the image contents, but not the drive geometry. You might (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: Norton Ghost vs. Drive Image vs. ??
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| "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Gs3HBz.H0L@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) one (...) want (...) get (...) leftover (...) My advice - don't use Ghost or Drive Image. Get Partition Magic. I did this last year with my work (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: Norton Ghost vs. Drive Image vs. ??
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| Hi! I've used both and they should be able to do what you want if you boot from a DOS-type floppy (make a rescue disk from a Windows '98 computer, works splendid and even starts most common CD-drives) and start Ghost or PQDI from there. Just make (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: Norton Ghost vs. Drive Image vs. ??
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| G'Day Both products work well (most off the time). Just make a backup of important data files. We use Ghost 7.0 at the office everyday. My method with Ghost, make a WIN98 boot floppy to boot with, flip in a diskette with Ghost.exe on it and run from (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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