Re: 'Copy Drive' feature of Symantec's GHOST 10

Brian you need to read my message again. The copy of one
hard drive to another hard drive is not restoring an image.
And yes I know you can boot from the Norton CD, but I choose
not to boot with the CD when I can use a floppy with PC DOS.
DOS is still a great avenue to copy disks.

Again I say - my system works for me and has worked for
years.

Bquinn

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I have two drives in my computer and they are the same
size. Drive D is used as a backup in case I have trouble
booting with C drive or some software problems.

I have been using Ghost for years to copy C drive to D
drive as a backup and I must tell you that I have had to
use D drive to copy a working system back to C drive a
few times when I have had trouble.

It appears that you are restoring an image of the drive,
not copying or cloning. If you were to copy/clone a drive
partition to another dirive/partition, you are essentially
creating a working bootable disk and there is no need to
copy the files back to the original drive. All that one
needs to do is swap out the active bootable disks. When
you create a backup image of a drive/partition, you are
not copying/cloning the destination drive to be bootable,
you are only saving a restorable image on it in case
something goes wrong with the source disk, which can then
be rstored by the saved image.


Currently I am using a floppy disk which starts PC DOS to
run the program. This disk was made by using Ghost 2003.
And yes I installed a floppy disk drive in my new
computer just to run Ghost.

You don't need a floppy Ghost boot disk w/2003, you can
boot Ghost from the install CD or a command prompt path to
ghost.exe on the drive. As well, if one wishes they can
create a CD/DVD startup disk w/Ghost to access images.


I do this each weekend to insure that I will be able to
copy D drive to C drive if I have any booting or software
problems occur with C drive.

What if you make any critical system changes,
install/uninstall software, update apps/files, install MS
Crit Updates and something goes bang on Thursday? You
have lost at the least 4 days of work/changes that aren't
recoverable from the last backup image. The safe way is
to create an image before any critical changes are made
and after any critical files/docs are created/updated you
need are in case something goes bang. Of course, instead
of creating an entire image every time just because a
file/doc was created/updated, it's best to have a separate
incremental image for those.


It works well for me. If you have problems it takes any
where from 10 to 50 minutes to copy the files (depending
on the size of your disk drive.

Lordy, I wish mine would complete in that time. Those
days are Scarlett O'hara.


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