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creating image of only used data on HD
Sep 4
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, 2008 at 3:41am
Hi All
I'm useing Ghost 2003 and i am trying to make a image of the build but it seems to want to image the whole 70gb of the hd, is there a way of setting ghost to image only the used part of the HD?
thanks for any help that can be given
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Re: creating image of only used data on HD
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, 2008 at 11:02am
It will image only the USED data portion, unless you use special switches that instruct Ghost to perform a bit-for-bit image, which is usually only used by forensics people.
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Re: creating image of only used data on HD
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, 2008 at 1:49pm
If you want a Ghost Image of C:, and you want it to take up the least amount of space, then run "Disk Cleanup" and whatever else you can to remove every piece of junk from your C: drive that you can.
Then from a DOS boot disk run ghost in the "Partition to Image" format with Maximum compression. That will give you a compressed Image file that will contain only what's needed (minus the temp files and other garbage) and in the smallest amount of space.
After doing a very thorough cleanup of my HD before actually starting Ghost, I can still get a compressed Image of C: on a single DVD.
If you're going for minimum space, you do not want to do a Disk to Disk copy. That's a CLONE and the TO drive will be the same size as the FROM drive.
Cheers Mates!
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