Ghost 2002 vs. Ghost 2003

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Originally posted by Falcon Speed
Tuttle, I thought NTFS was created for security issue. Well, I got that info from my friend. He told me that NTSF is more secure than Fat32. Maybe I misunderstood him.

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It's more secure in Windows. But if you let someone reboot to another operating system the permissions are completely ignorable.

NTFS also allows you to encrypt files and directories. That can't be overcome from DOS, but it wouldn't stop you from saving new data to the drive, only reading what is already there.

Thank you for taking the time to reply back.:)

Hey guys, I've tried backing up and restoring via Ghost 2003 and found an interesting problem (also happens with Acronis Backup).

If I backup a single partition System drive to a separate drive and then restore that backup to a single partition Active drive (not the System drive), I've noticed that works fine. When I start up the copy, it boots fine and shows the various users, although it may take up to ½ hour to do so and may have to be restarted a couple of times.

However, if I attempt to do the restore to the target drive's first (and Active) paartition of two, the computer will start to come up (begin to show the start screen) but will hang without showing the various users and you can't proceed from there.

What is the solution to successfully restoring to a two or more partition drive?

Thanks, in advance.

Do acronis and Ghost 2003 have any issues with windows activation etc? I have a windows xp home at my house, and a Windows xp pro on my office computer. With acronis, can I transfer the whole thing from my home machine onto my office? (Lots of tools and software etc apart from the data and configs!)

Would appreciate any experiences.

Thanks

Howdy folks,

I have never used Acronis, so will defer to those who are familiar with it.

DocDon, you ask "What is the solution to successfully restoring to a two or more partition drive?"

Sorry that I have no solution to offer. However, I have restored a drive that contains an image of partitions C thru G and have encountered no such adverse result. The machine booted right up after the restore was completed.

erick_p, I haven't seen any issues with Ghost and the Activation of XP.


Limerick

Thanks a bunch Limerick! Very helpful.

erick_p,

There is one thing that you might want to know. I don't recommend taking the ghost image of your home computer and reimaging it into a DIFFERENT computer. The hardware are different and will give you some trouble. Of course, you can update the drivers and like that but I prefer a fresh copy of the OS.

I took a ghost image of my computer and were trying to restore it on my sister's computer. It was giving me lots of complication in terms of detecting hardware and video. It was much easier to just redo her system and take an image of that computer.

Hi
ghost pe and ghost (full) was/are two slightly different animals

I am not yet familir with full 2003

faik, what pe and full (up to 2002) have in common is a capability or an option one can choose while in the windows screen

and one can do same while in DOS, even from a command-line

in DOS; command-line option one can choose to include "master-boot-record" (what incluseds bootloader) , and "all-partitions" (while cloning disk to disk)
to do this, I used -fro -ia -ib

when i did disk to disk, to recover data,,, this Dos option is what I called Magic

it works in 6.x and older, and 2002 PE as well

I am going to have to get me 2003, and see how much 2003 improved over 2002 (FWIW, i had corp 6.0x , and now have 2002- pe )

DocDon, I've tried restoring a ghost image using GhostBasic from the menu and haven't had much luck. I have to go with Ghost Advanced and "run ghost interactively" before I can get a decent image restore.

There's definitely something wrong with what you're getting for results. I've never had problems bigger than Norton AV not working after a restore. Or my sound being bad. In either case, restoring the image again solved the problem.

Thanks. Again, I have only occasional problems when going from a single partition drive to a single partition driive. The problem is when I try to copy from a single partition drive onto a dual partition drive.

I have read of this problem before and it supposedly has something to do with "prep"ing a drive. I just have no data on this or hw to handle it.

The problem I get is that the intro screen shows up but without any users and they either usually show up after a while (within ½ hour) if on a single partition drive. On a drive with two partitions I never get it to come up - it just shows the intro screen with no users.

Maybe that is enough data for you to guess what is going wrong.

Thanks, in advance.

Doc, are you using ghost images or clones?