norton ghost

[silvertooth]

i would appreciate any tips from those who have used ghost to clone an OEM hdd to replacement hdd. i am about to attemt this.

the documentation from symantec does not specifically address this scenario. i think i have it figured out, but i would like serious comments from any one who has "been there, done that".

thanks for any solid advice.

 

[Mountain]

I had two versions of ghost, one obtained when I acquired a epox board and one with a fic. the epox version allowed complete cloning but the other did not. be sure to know if your version allows the complete clone job and not just an image to a partition(?). anyway i did it with the good one after trying to manipulate the bad one for hours.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Mountain

Does the disk->disk cloning take into account the predefined partions on your drives.

I have been using the partition image option on the Ghost that I got with a MB.
On all my drives I use the same partion scheme, but as the drives have gotten larger, I am unsure that I can ghost a 40G to a 60G directly. From a 15->40 and the 40->60 I did each partition as an image first and then to the new drive in the corresponding partition.

A seond 60G is in the wings with each partions a larger size that what is on the 40G

 

[dunkster]

Both Maxtor and WD have excellent programs supplied with the drives on floppy that handle this very well. Both will clone the old drive to the new and will set the partition size on the new drive in proportion the size-differences of the HDs. I don't know about other HD vendor-supplied programs to do this, since I've only used those vendors. I've used both successfully with FAT32 file type.

Norton Ghost 2002 Pro is fully-compatible with FAT32 file types but is not 100% compatible with NTFS file types. Posts I've read indicate that Ghost can't write images to NTFS-formatted partitions.

Other posts indicate that Drive Image and Partition Commander are 100% NTFS-compatible.

Hope this helps!