Norton Ghost Image With ntfs

[andru]

Having had a really terrible week with my crappy computer I have just installed xp home with sp1. My computer has two hard drives C and D i formatted C with ntfs when i installed home edition. My second drive is Fat32 is it possible to do a ghost image of C onto D.When i had the two drives as fat i did it no problem but when i booted up from the ghost 2003 disk i could only see one drive. I now have a perfectly stable system and want to ghost it across before it goes all wrong again.


Thanks

[Cactus]

That shouldn't be a problem.

When you boot DOS (or Win98) it's true you normaly can't access the NTFS drive, better yet, it isn't even visible then. Your D: will suddenly become your C: drive. Just start Ghost and choose to make an Image of the first partition on your first harddisk to your C: drive.

That's all.

[Stringent]

Or use Partition Magic like me

Ghost sucked for me, didn't like it.

[unicorn]

Flanderz: Partition Magic and Ghost are two very different kinds of software, each with their own use and purpose.
Alternative to Ghost might be apps like Drive Image Acronis True Image.

Then in Ghost the drives doesn't necessarily shows up as C: and D: and so on: They are easiest to identify by the description (label) and or size together with their physical drive of which all also will be shown.

[L3-dOg]

yeah in the private sector anyone who gives ntfs out to newbies has rocks in their head....better yet run a cable from another pc to the drive in question..[making it part of that system..ide..power..] acess through and format to fat 32 ....then you can run ghost ....i use a boot cd a friend made up with dos prompt ..ghost..with just the mouse driver...and fdisk..winntexe.....i can formatt c and run an image back in in under 5mins complete..ghost loads drive in 57 secs....keep image on seperate physical drive on raid channel..ata 133..so transfer is quikes.."C:" is four gb and only thing living there is o/s and page file

that way if "bob" stuffs his rig up i can talk him in over the ph in five...

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