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	Copy Drive using Ghost 9.0 Apr 27^th, 2008 at 8:35pm I am running Ghost 9.0. I want to make a system copy(MBR, system files, everything else) of my hard drive. Whenever I try I get a message that says that I cannot do this while Windows is running. I boot up in the "The Recovery Disk" but there does not appear to be a place where I can make a copy of the disk. Am I missing something?
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	Re: Copy Drive using Ghost 9.0 Reply #1 - Apr 27^th, 2008 at 8:40pm IRHere2, Where are you creating the copy?
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	Re: Copy Drive using Ghost 9.0 Reply #2 - Apr 27^th, 2008 at 8:49pm I am coping from C: to D:
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	Re: Copy Drive using Ghost 9.0 Reply #3 - Apr 27^th, 2008 at 8:52pm Where is D: drive? Same HD? Another HD? External HD? How large is C: drive? How large is D: drive? Does D: drive contain data?
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	Re: Copy Drive using Ghost 9.0 Reply #4 - Apr 27^th, 2008 at 9:02pm C: is a 70M drive and D: is a 40M drive. C: has about 15M used up in files. I have formatted D: to be sure that it is clean. I have a two drive system. I am currently running Windows 2000 Pro.
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Re: Copy Drive using Ghost 9.0
Reply #5 - Apr 27^th, 2008 at 9:10pm

IRHere2,

Even though you only have 15 GB in your C: drive, the 40 GB HD is probably not large enough to contain the data.

http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/notes.htm#15

See "Why won't 5GB of data clone to a 10GB partition?"

If you need a backup, you should be using images rather than a clone.

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1132968474;start=7#7

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	Re: Copy Drive using Ghost 9.0 Reply #6 - Apr 27^th, 2008 at 9:19pm What I am trying to do is make a duplicate C: drive for backup purposes. I have had to reload my system so many time, because of windows crashes, that I would like to do it this way so if anything does happens I can just get a few updates and be back in business ASAP.
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	Re: Copy Drive using Ghost 9.0 Reply #7 - Apr 27^th, 2008 at 9:26pm Kurtis, You should be using Ghost 9 images for that purpose. As explained in Dan's post. Store them on your second HD. When Windows crashes you restore an image using the Ghost 9 Recovery CD. Back to normal in 5 to 10 minutes. No need to open the computer case as you would have to do with a clone.
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	Re: Copy Drive using Ghost 9.0 Reply #8 - Apr 27^th, 2008 at 9:30pm I read the post about using images. If I understand what it is saying then I can make full backups( system files,and everything else), although this may not be practical, and if anything happens I can restore my C: drive to what it looked like before the crash?
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Re: Copy Drive using Ghost 9.0
Reply #9 - Apr 27^th, 2008 at 9:32pm

Kurtis wrote on Apr 27^th, 2008 at 9:30pm:

and if anything happens I can restore my C: drive to what it looked like before the crash?

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Kurtis wrote on Apr 27^th, 2008 at 9:30pm:

although this may not be practical

It is easy and practical. Particularly if you use Incremental images. You are always up to date.

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	Re: Copy Drive using Ghost 9.0 Reply #10 - Apr 27^th, 2008 at 9:42pm Thank you for the help. This has cleared up a lot of things. Thank you again for the help.
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Re: Copy Drive using Ghost 9.0
Reply #11 - Apr 27^th, 2008 at 9:48pm

Ghost 9 is still one of my favourite backup apps.

This is how you restore an image.

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Boot to the Ghost CD
Set the Time Zone
Advanced Recovery Tasks
System Restore
dot in Restore drives ,Next
dot in Single drive ,Next
Browse to your image file ,Next
Select a destination ,Next
tick Verify backup
tick Check for file system errors after restore
tick Resize drive to fill unallocated space (Y or N) Will be greyed out if partition is correct size
tick Set drive active (for booting OS)
tick Restore MBR (for a new HD)
Next
tick Reboot after finish
Finish

Check computer clock after OS boots. May be out by an hour or two.

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