What you can do with the Windows version of Ghost is to reimage the drive
through network. Basically you can do it by your own (selecting pre-defined
sets and the rest is done automatically) or you can have a server and an
administrator who can do it for you from distance. Also you can define
certain backup tasks so that you just click on a predefined task and your
drive backed up while you can continue working. You can do it incrementally
or as a whole induvidual set. In case of incremental backup of course you
will have several stages so that you can restore earlier stage than the
newest backup if you want. In addition if you need you can pick up files /
directories that you want to restore so do not even need to ruin the entire
partitiion. It can create CD/DVD as well (creates a bootable CD including
all necessary software to do the restore).

Tamas


On 14/09/06, M. Adam Davis <stienman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ghost was great for the kind of work I did several years ago, but the
> first time I tried it on Win XP it didn't work, and I've never tried
> it since.  I imagine that problem is resolved now (this was just after
> the introduction of WinXP).
>
> However, I just purchased a new drive for my laptop from NewEgg and
> purchased a HD upgrade kit for another $50 (apricorn EZ-UP-Universal
> with EZ Gig II software).  It's overkill, but I just didn't want to
> fuss with finding a good program and dealing with it.
>
> I did have to fiddle with it - the automatic settings increased the
> size of all the partitions, and I wanted to keep the two DELL
> partitions the same size as the original and give the increase all to
> my main partition.
>
> However it worked flawlessly - I put the new drive in the provided USB
> enclosure, booted off the CD, and hour later swapped the drives, and
> everything has been fine ever since.  I'll probably be using the
> software on my wife's computer soon.
>
> Ghost is overkill for this type of operation, but it should work fine.
> When it does fail, it can be really frustrating, but so far I've
> never had it damage the original data - at worst it stops with an
> error message.  As a point of reference, I've used Ghost, Drive Image,
> and Partition magic.
>
> For those that are curious, Ghost does a sector by sector copy only
> when it does not understand the file system.  Otherwise it can resize
> the partitions.  I used to do this quite often with Netware 3 servers,
> which had a dos partition and a netware volume.  It would offer to
> resize the FAT32 partition, but would always do a sector by sector
> copy of the netware volume.  Further, you can copy and restore
> individual partitions.  It wouldn't resize partitions in place though.
>
> -Adam
>
> On 9/13/06, John Ferrell <johnferrell@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > I asked a while back and was not comfortable with the answers, I thought
> I would try again....
> >
> > My Windows XP Pro C: drive is getting a little tight on space. It is a
> 60G drive with 8.3G free at the moment. I would like to Clone it to a
> larger drive. Regening the system always results in a few losses.
> >
> > Norton Ghost is supposed to do it as I read the advertising.
> >
> > Would anyone care to share any related experiences?
> >
> > John Ferrell    W8CCW
> > "My Competition is not my enemy"
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