cloning ntfs drives

[Sarrkazztic]

I need to clone a ntfs drive what is best..I know that norton ghost does not work as yet...can anyone suggest something that will work...can I use the disk that comes with the hard drive.?

[mfutty]

Norton Ghost DOES work, trust me. I am currently using it to deploy workstations in a production environment and server images in a lab environment.

There are other products that work with Windows 2000, but I think that Ghost is the most stable of the lot.

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[Jeff_LouKY]

I too, thought Ghost 6.0 would not work with NTFS, but a friend told me to use the Ghost.exe from a boot floppy with two switches and it would work. From the Ghost boot floppy, type the command: Ghost -ntil -ntn and press the Enter key. These switches allowed me to successfully "ghost" a dual-boot setup (FAT32 and NTFS) from one hard disk to another.

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Jeff Wise
Louisville, KY

[SuperSparks]

I've had big problems with Ghost in the past, so now I use Drive Image 4, which is easy to use and problem free. It copies NTFS partitions just fine.
www.powerquest.com

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Nick
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Win2000Pro,WinME,P3-450,256Mb,MSI6156,Voodoo5500AGP,SB Live!Platinum5.1,Promise ATA100PCI,Fujitsu13GbATA33,IBM30.7Gb ATA100,Maxtor82Gb ATA100,Plextor1210A-CDRW,Memorex DVD.

[ucklak]

I've had problems with Ghost in the past but version 6 DOES work. I recently used it to deploy 8 GIG sys/boot partitions NTFS and 12G data for NT4 on the newer laptops.

[mikeyvr6]

I agree---Ghost 7.0 has been fantastic, including doing multicast and mapped network drive images.

--Mike

[Sarrkazztic]

ok maybe I am doing something wrong...I have ghost enterprise edition 6.5 and I have a ntfs hard drive but the other one is fat32 partitioned.....do I have to delete all partitions on this 2nd drive before I can ghost it.

[LukeB0ch]

I am also a fan of Norton Ghost. Give it a try. : )

[Jeff_LouKY]

Ghost should give you the option to simply overwrite the partitions on the second drive. I know for a fact that when you ghost to an image file and then ghost from that image file to a disk, Ghost warns you that the disk will be overwritten. Use the switches I listed above and see what options Ghost gives you when you designate the destination drive--you should be able to overwrite it without removing partitions first.

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Jeff Wise
Louisville, KY