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Re: Norton Ghost vs. Drive Image vs. ??
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:00:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Brian Bacher writes:
> 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.
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
another bootable 2000 drive or another caddy either)
I'm sensing that even if I had another network connected machine I could not
safely copy from the boot drive of the first machine to the new drive, since
the boot drive would be active. (that's why I think I would need two drive
cradles, so that both machines would have a drive to boot from (the internal
drive) and a drive to be source/destination for the imaging process)
++Lar
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| (...) Dan's advice about installing from scratch is good. But I've also thought of another work-around. A bit more time consuming, but it should work. If you boot from the new drive, since it has 2000 on it, you could dump the contents of the old (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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)
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