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Yeah, I have used PartitionMagic for years and never had problems with it. It's a decent recommendation over the other products being discussed. The interface is straight-forward enough that one refers to the manuals only sparingly. One of the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Gs58o4.Hnv@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) Sorry, I should have explained that part. Partition Magic creates the boot disks - one to boot from, the other you insert when it asks which (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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)
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(...) Thanks. I wasn't sure I followed you on creating two boot disks, though. Could you elaborate on that a bit? Wouldn't one be sufficient? (assuming the boot disk enables Partition Magic to use NTFS formatted drives) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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)
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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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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)
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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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(...) 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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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 (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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