One of my clients has found to have bad blocks on their server's hard disk and therefore I would like to "clone" the servers entire drive to a new hard disk temporally connected as a slave drive.

Once the clone is done, then replace the existing faulty drive with the new cloned drive.

The original (faulty) drive has FAT and NTFS partitions and the new drive will probably come unformatted as standard.

If anyone has any information whether Ghost 2002 can achieve this (or do I need enterprise?) and any other things I should be aware of I would be grateful to know.

Thanks

Stephen

Thanks for the info.

So the fact that most websites about Ghost 2002 lists the supported OS's as Windows NT Workstation only will not cause me a problem getting Ghost running on NT Server?

The destination drive will be black (unformatted) will I need to format the destination drive first as FAT16 or FAT32? Or will the clone create the relivent partions for me?

Also do you know if the destination drive will be fully bootable after the clone has been done or will I need to set partions active?

Finally, are there any issues rellated to using SCSI drives, I will be cloneing a 9Gb to a 30Gb. I assume I will need to resize the partition to use the drive fully or can it extend the second partion to the full disk size?

Again, many thanks for any advice you can give me before committing to this software.

(Shouldn't symantec have this facility on their web site, "They should, but they don't!")

Stephen

Many thanks for your help!

Just to let you know, I sucessfully used Ghost 2002 to clone a SCSI hard disk with Small Business Server 4.5 on it.

I installed Ghost (From a system works 2002 cd) on to a Windows 98 terminal and used the floppy disk created to create the clone on the server.

It was quick (well quick enough for me) and I had no problems switching the slave hard disk (ID 6) over to be the master (ID 0). I didn't even need to do anything with partitions to make it boot.

I was very impressed when it offered me the option to re-size the destination partitions. It originally prompted to enlarge both the system and data partitions evenly but I very easily changed it to enlarge the data partition only to the full capacity of the disk.

I think this forum is great, all the best.

Steve