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Why can't Ghost 9 /10 / 12 create images of entire hard disks? (Read 18886 times)
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Re: Why can't Ghost 9 /10 / 12 create images of entire hard disks?
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John, I don't use Acronis TI except in test situations but I've found its cloning function to be very robust. I couldn't get it to fail and I really tried to make it fail. Others haven't been so fortunate.
Symantec's documentation on how to clone (copy a drive) with Ghost 9/10/12 is terrible and I'm not surprised we see so many failures. If done correctly it works but there is no easy way to resize partitions while cloning. I don't clone (copy a drive) in practice so I've tended to ignore Ghost 9/10/12's peculiarities.
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Re: Why can't Ghost 9 /10 / 12 create images of entire hard disks?
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My question was aimed more at wondering if this feature represented a coding challenge.
But since Acronis & Paragon have it, you gotta wonder why not Ghost?
Personally I rarely used the disk-to-image feature of DOS-based Ghost. Actually, I can't recall *ever* using it. But if Symantec wants to market Ghost as the most developed and reliable cloning prgm out there (and there are so many now), I would expect them to incorporate features AT LEAST as comprehensive as their competitors.
Basically I image only my system partition. I don't need Ghost to back-up non-system-partition files (nobody does).
For me, I have partitions OTHER THAN my system partition. But many may not.
That reminds me, I want to include a section in the new guide about how it's best to create a small partition at the beginning of the disk for Windows + programs .. how having a single 500-gig partition (or a single 1-TB partition) represents a big waste when it comes to backing up with Ghost.
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Re: Why can't Ghost 9 /10 / 12 create images of entire hard disks?
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Brian wrote
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Symantec's documentation on how to clone (copy a drive) with Ghost 9/10/12 is terrible and I'm not surprised we see so many failures. If done correctly it works but there is no easy way to resize partitions while cloning. I don't clone (copy a drive) in practice so I've tended to ignore Ghost 9/10/12's peculiarities.
Brian, I agree. However, usually someone will purchase a new hard drive in two different cases: they are running out of room on their old hard drive, or they hear noises and think their old hard drive is getting ready to fail.
That is a very common scenario. They just want a proportionally (or manually) expanded new hard drive copy/clone/image of their existing disk drive.
Guess this will just be a feature that will continue to be on my "hope list" for the next release of Ghost.
Ghost4me Ghost 9, 10, 12, 14, 15. Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
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John. wrote
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That is a very common scenario. They just want a proportionally (or manually) expanded new hard drive copy/clone/image of their existing disk drive.
CopyWipe from TeraByte will do this (proportionally). It's free but the beginner won't know of its existence.
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Rad wrote
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Basically I image only my system partition.
Same here. I'm not interested in a whole disk image as my data is backed up separately.
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how having a single 500-gig partition (or a single 1-TB partition) represents a big waste when it comes to backing up with Ghost.
Rad, I know you have read this. It discusses this issue.
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/notes.htm#13
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Re: Why can't Ghost 9 /10 / 12 create images of entire hard disks?
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Rad, concerning “I rarely used the disk-to-image feature of DOS-based Ghost” (Reply #16), I believe this is the only option in Norton Ghost 2003 that will backup the MBR. A ‘partiton-to-image’ backup - even of the operating system partition - does not backup the MBR (if I recall the gist of
this thread
correctly).
In contrast, Norton Ghost 9/10/12 does automatically include the MBR in the recovery point for an operating system ‘drive’ (aka partition).
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