Is Norton Ghost 2002 compatible with windows XP pro??

[ahmedalmatook]

Is Norton Ghost 2002 compatible with windows XP pro??
I have noted that on the cover it says can be used on all Windows, but inside and according to the interactive demo provided by Norton it never mention XP it goes only to Windows 9X, Me and 2000.

How can I make the image on a 2nd hard drive, And not on a CDR or CDRW?

Is there any compression in Ghost? If I need to make an Image of a partition of the size of 5GB, how many CD’s do I need? Will the ratio be 1:1 or some thing else.
Regards

[ssjenkins]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ahmedalmatook
[B]Is Norton Ghost 2002 compatible with windows XP pro??
I have noted that on the cover it says can be used on all Windows, but inside and according to the interactive demo provided by Norton it never mention XP it goes only to Windows 9X, Me and 2000.

Yes it is . I'm using it and it works fine .

How can I make the image on a 2nd hard drive, And not on a CDR or CDRW?

Once you've booted the system with the Ghost boot disk you can select whatever disk/partition (FAT32 only) that you want to copy the image to .

Is there any compression in Ghost? If I need to make an Image of a partition of the size of 5GB, how many CD’s do I need? Will the ratio be 1:1 or some thing else.

There is a compression option but I don't know the ratio .

Paul

[ahmedalmatook]

pmcmill

thanks for the reply, so as I understand that I can use my slave hard drive to store an image of my main partition of my master hard drive, as long as my slave hard drive is a FAT32, while my Master Hard drive is NFTS?

have I understood properly?
regards

[SuperSparks]

Yep, that about sums it up. Of course you can make the image on CDR or CDRW if you wan't to. I do it takes about 1¼ hours for my 6Gb XP Pro installation.

There are 3 compression ratios: None at all, 40% or 50%. I've always used the 50% setting without any problems at all.

[Limerick]

Looks like this one needs no other reply. I would simply add that if you are running Ghost from the command line or from within a batch file, the -z switch provides nine levels of compression.

Limerick

[ahmedalmatook]

Ok now I have every ting set to go, I can burn an image for my HDD or partition.. the problem is “I want to have the image on my slave HDD and not on a CDR or a CDRW” I cant find an option to do so, I can clone the HDD and that is not what I want, even if I clone the HDD would that effect my booting to windows?? (I am not taking my slave HDD out of the PC box) ,And what is the point of having 2 HDD’s with the same information?
Any suggestions??

Regards

[Limerick]

Hi ahmedalmatook,

It sounds like you are trying to create an image of your FAT32 drive and storing it on your NTFS drive. You cannot do that with Ghost 2002. Only the newer Ghost 2003 will write to a local drive that is formatted NTFS.

Going the other way, creating an image of the NTFS drive, and storing it on the FAT32 drive should work just fine.

Limerick

[ahmedalmatook]

Hi Limerick
thanks for your reply, I am trying to image my NFTS HDD and store the image on my slave HDD which is FAT32.

I want to creat an image of the NTFS drive, and store it on the FAT 32drive .

I dont know why it is not being done as you adviced.

regards

[Limerick]

Hi ahmedalmatook,

What are the sizes of the two hard drives? How much free space is on each of the drives?

Limerick

[Limerick]

As I've pondered on this issue some more, something else comes to mind that I thought I'd mention. When you created your Ghost boot diskette, did you choose MS-DOS or PC-DOS for the DOS files? Whichever you chose that time, try creating another boot disk and select the other choice. It *seems* like I did that once to solve some sort of weird issue that I ran into, and using the different DOS files was the solution.

It may be worth a shot...

Limerick

[ssjenkins]

Hi ahmedalmatook,
Limerick (as usual !) is right

I'm doing exactly what you're trying to do at present i.e copy my XP (NTFS) to my slave (FAT32) with no problems . When you say it doesn't work , what do you mean ? Does the FAT32 drive not show up in the list of available drives ??

Firstly , as Limerick said make a Win98SE or WinME bootdisk . In Ghost go to the Ghost Boot Wizard . Follow the steps and when you get to the DOS version , select MSDOS and NOT PCDOS . Then insert your bootdisk and Ghost will copy the files to it's program directory . When you get to the end there's a box at the bottom for additional parameters . I use "-auto" which allows you to copy partitions bigger than 2Gbits without prompting . You should then insert another floppy and Ghost will copy all it's files , including the necessary bootfiles to the disk .

Now reboot your PC with the Ghost floppy in the drive and once Ghost starts select , Copy Partition to Image . Select your XP (NTFS) partition and in the list of destination drives you should see your slave (FAT32) . Select it then type the name you want to call it .
Click OK and you'll have the option to compress it if you want .

One thing to add . Be carefull when you select the source and destination drives/partitions . It's easy to make a mistake and overwrite the wrong drive/partition . I speak from experience .

Hope this helps.

Paul

[ahmedalmatook]

Limerick, Paul
thank you for your explanation, i was using PCdos not MSdos. which eems to be the problem, I amm going for a bistrip and once I come back I will go through the procedure one mor time by using the MSDOS and for sure I will post back the results.

thank you both one more time
Ahmed

[TheGorx]

Is Norton Ghost 2002 compatible with windows XP pro??

No, it is not.
The Fact that you have to use a boot disk would suggest this.

Ghost programs I have can run directly in Windows 98.
But the Ghost portion of the program will not run inside Windows XP.

It's explorer can and I can add to a ghost image inside Windows XP but to the best of my knowlege you can't run Ghost in Windows XP.

I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm splitting hairs but Windows XP and a DOS boot disk are two totally different things.

[ssjenkins]

I think for the users purpose Ghost 2002 does work in XP . He wants to backup data , including his XP partition and save it on his slave h/d . Ghost 2002 does this . The fact that you have to boot from a bootdisk to achieve this has no impact on the final outcome . Also , from within the XP OS backed up files can be recovered using Ghost Explorer .
Paul

[ahmedalmatook]

Hi, Limerick, Paul
it’s me again
I followed the instructions and made a Ghost boot disk base on MSDOS and not PCDOS, following the instructions bellow

1. Firstly , make a Win98SE or Win ME boot disk
2. In Ghost go to the Ghost Boot Wizard
3. Follow the steps and when you get to the DOS version, select MSDOS
4. Then insert your boot disk and Ghost will copy the files to its program directory. When you get to the end there's a box at the bottom for additional parameters.
5. I use "-auto" which allows you to copy partitions bigger than 2Gbits without prompting.
6. You should then insert another floppy and Ghost will copy all it's files, including the necessary boot files to the disk.

7. Now reboot your PC with the Ghost floppy in the drive and once Ghost starts select, Copy Partition to Image.
8. Select your XP (NTFS) partition and in the list of destination drives you should see your slave (FAT32).
9. Select it then type the name you want to call it.
10. Click OK and you'll have the option to compress it if you want


Rebooting the computer with the boot disk in I had the following options:
1. disk to disk
2. disk to image
3. Partition to partition

Choosing disk to disk lead me to cloning the C drive which is not my intention.
Choosing disk to image opens an option window of writing to:
1. CDRW
2. A:Ghost
3. A:
4. C:
Again these options are not what I need.

Selecting partition to partition resulted in the boot disk asked me to fill the license no. “Which I did” then selecting the source (Drive C: ) and the target (Drive H: ) ((My slave HDD)).
After 13 minuets I got a cloned partition on drive H: the slave HDD, and I don’t need that, I was never prompt to a type or a name and there was no –auto nor compression.. Nothing of these things.
At this moment at least I have a cloned partition of my main drive C: while my extended partition D: was ignored by the program.
I am sorry to reach this result, but I kindly ask you to guide me on this process as I know that your experience in ghost is much superior to mine.
Thank you in advance.
Ahmed