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Re: Norton Ghost vs. Drive Image vs. ??
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:44:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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)
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> 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.
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
irrelevant. It does support NTFS, but there's a problem...you can't image to or
from the partition that you boot from. So if you boot from your current drive,
you won't be able to use it as a source drive, (or a target drive, not that you
care in this instance). If you boot from a DOS-type diskette, it won't see the
NTFS partition (and therefore Ghost won't see the drive). If you have a second
machine available, (with NT/2000 installed) that you can place one or both of
these drives into, it is pretty easy to work around this limitation. Or a
third, temporary drive would work in place of a second machine. Like I said,
they may have gotten around this somehow in the newest version, I haven't used
it yet.
Hope this is somewhat helpful.
Brian
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| (...) That helps a lot! Thanks! I guess I'm sort of stuck then as I only have one machine with only one internal drive and one external caddy (these are laptop drives). I HAD two machines as late as last week but turned one in. (however I did't have (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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