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Re: Norton Ghost vs. Drive Image vs. ??
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Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:25:39 GMT
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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 the DOS prompt. Then choose
drive to drive copy, ghost will them let you adjust the size of the
destination partitions, oh and it does not matter that WIN98 DOS can not
'see' NTFS, Ghost takes care of all that for you.
Powerquest's Drive Copy works just as well. Ghost is a bit more flexible.
Chers
Oliver
Play well
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
news:Gs3HBz.H0L@lugnet.com...
> 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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