Hi Everyone

I'm new to ghost and was looking for some basic tips on a few areas. Sorry if the answers are somewhere here already but i couldn;t see them. If they are maybe someone can point the link out to me..

I would like to know what the difference between using disk to disk or disk to image option within ghost is.

I know this may be a simple question but i'd appreciate some help

Thanks

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Disk-to-Disk copies the old one to the new one. As wp points out, you have to remove the old one and connect the new one to that connector prior to restarting the computer. The reason is that the two disks get the same disk signature and Windows can't have that. If you restart with both disks connected, Windows rewrites the disk signature on the disk that isn't the boot disk, rendering the new disk not bootable.

Disk-to-Image copies the "contents" of the old disk to a file or set of files on a different disk. The Image has to be restored to a new disk or to the old one in case of "shit hitting the fan" and you wish to restore it.

In my view, Disk-to-Image is backing up the disk. You don't need a dedicated disk to store the image and the image isn't larger than the used space. If you use compression, it is smaller.

Disk-to-Disk is used when you want to transfer your system to a new disk ... ... bigger, faster or more beautiful.