Hi TheShadow

I agree with Nigel regarding the restoration. Maybe because my experience is only based on Ghost 8.3 or 11.

So far i can say on the moving of ghost images across harddisk and restoring. I have not tried DVD options.

I create a backup in my hdd by creating a backup folder in D/E drive (backing C drive). I give the name normally CImage. Let ghost add number extensions when i give the split option of 700 or 4GB.

I have tried moving it across HDDs(external USB hdd) and restore it from them. It works fine.

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I think Nigel has said it right. I didn't fiddle around with the names. Just kept the same what the ghost created.

Maybe will try it with DVDs and update you.

TheShadow wrote on Aug 18^th, 2008 at 5:43pm:

That's exactly what I said works, and it does work, and it always has worked. I've done it plenty of times, doing this has been part of Ghost's design since about v3.0 when Plextor licensed it for their CD-ResQ product (or maybe they licensed 4.0, I forget) and the only real caveats are that a) you have to not be an idiot and use ISO9660 and not UDF so that MSCDEX can mount the disk, and b) if the 8.3 filenames aren't quite how Ghost wants during the restore it'll prompt at every span instead of only the end of the disk.

There is no file format difference between CD and Hard disk images with the sole exception that when writing directly to a CD, the spans Ghost writes are missing the normal file signature at the start of a hard disk span - and there's a single bit in the initial .GHO that says it did that instead of writing the normal hard-disk span format. That is the sole file-format difference between the two, and all that the CD bit does is turn off a check for that leading header, nothing else. Ghost is otherwise completely happy to restore whatever content it is given.