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	Can Ghost2003 backup a multibooting system? May 16^th, 2009 at 3:47am I installed Debain 5.0 and WinXP on my laptop, and want to backup the system with Ghost2003. I just don't know if Ghost could make it. Could anyone tell me?
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	Re: Can Ghost2003 backup a multibooting system? Reply #1 - May 16^th, 2009 at 6:07am Yes it will, if , you do a Disk to Disk or Disk to image, to an external drive. A disk to image can even be done to a DVD, if you have a DVD writer in your laptop. Use HIGH compression when backing up to DVD's, to minimize the number of disks required. Good Luck,
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	Re: Can Ghost2003 backup a multibooting system? Reply #2 - May 16^th, 2009 at 8:06pm But someone tell me Ghost can'g backup Master Boot Record on the disk... ...
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Re: Can Ghost2003 backup a multibooting system?
Reply #3 - May 17^th, 2009 at 9:29am

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I installed Debain 5.0 and WinXP on my laptop, and want to backup the system with Ghost2003. I just don't know if Ghost could make it.

Does *Debain* use any part of the boot *region* other than the first absolute sector 0--that sector has the Master Boot Record, and the Master Partition Table.

The boot *region* is sectors 0 thru 62--some boot programs (and other software--for instance *rootkits* and certain copy protection schemes, etc.) use portions of sectors 1-62.

Ghost 2003's default behavior is to backup and restore only absolute sector 0--if you need to include sectors 1-62, then the Ghost switch *-ib* (image boot) needs to be used. You must use a whole disk procedure--i.e. *disk to disk*, or *disk to image* when you have specified the *-ib* switch--can not use *partition to partition* or *partition to image* procedures. So Ghost would be started with this command line:

ghost.exe -ib

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Re: Can Ghost2003 backup a multibooting system?
Reply #4 - May 18^th, 2009 at 9:26am

NightOwl wrote on May 17^th, 2009 at 9:29am:

Ghost 2003's default behavior is to backup and restore only absolute sector 0--if you need to include sectors 1-62, then the Ghost switch *-ib* (image boot) needs to be used.You must use a whole disk procedure--i.e. *disk to disk*, or *disk to image* when you have specified the *-ib* switch--can not use *partition to partition* or *partition to image* procedures.So Ghost would be started with this command line:

ghost.exe -ib

I don't know if Debian would use other sectors, yet it deserves to try.
It's great to learn. Thank you.

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