hard drive imaging software

[cxs00u]

Hi,

I am looking to take a snap shot off a hard drive on a computer and then, hopefully, take that snap shot and load it onto another machine, so that the second machine will be an exact replica of the first machine.

I beleive that Norton Ghost can do this and I was wondering what everyones opinion of this is or if there is a better product on the market.

Cheers

Craig

[figo111]

I use Ghost all the time setting up new machines. It works great.
Only thing is hard drive on new machine must be the same size or
larger.

[cxs00u]

Hi,

Thanks for that, What is your experience of Ghost when moving an image from one machine to another where the hardware is different ? Does it cause a lot of problems ?

Thanks

Craig

[figo111]

Windows handles that well, it detects new hardware the first time you start the cloned machine. I have had to use the 95 or 98
disk before if the hardware was not found. I have not tried cloning
an xp machine yet, and am not sure how that would be handled with xp's hardware authorization.
Frank

[cxs00u]

Hi,

I would actually be using Windows Server 2000 . Has anyone got any experience with Ghost on this platform ?

Cheers

Craig

[snowmonkey]

I have used Symantec Ghost EP with windows 2000 and 2003 server and it works like a charm,, also I have to disagree with figo111 first post in regards to size of the drive,, I have ghosted a 10 gig drive into a 80 gig drive without any issue under Win2k server.

You have to remember that ghosting and imaging using ghost are two different thing,, ghosting is, dumping a image drive to another drive directly (in Master and Slave position), imaging is to create an image of a hard drive and saving it as a file for backup or whatever else purposes.


cheers

[NetRanger]

Originally posted by snowmonkey
also I have to disagree with figo111 first post in regards to size of the drive,, I have ghosted a 10 gig drive into a 80 gig drive without any issue under Win2k server.

cheers

Sorry...but figo111 is correct. As he noted: "the drive has to be the same size or larger". In your case, you've ghosted a 10 gig drive on to a larger one..a 80 gig.