HELP! Ghosting / Imaging
An IT guy we occassionally hire says, because of some suspicious hard drive sounds, we should Ghost one of our mission-critical business PCs. The repair vendor we use, however, says they don't (read won't) ghost a Win2k system, they image them.
An IT guy we occassionally hire says, because of some suspicious hard drive sounds, we should "Ghost" one of our mission-critical business PCs. The repair vendor we use, however, says they don't (read won't) ghost a Win2k system, they image them. The sayd you can't ghost a Win2k system.
One - Is there a difference between ghosting and imaging?
Two - Could it be that our IT and repair vendor are using the term "ghost or ghosting" interchangeably with Norton's Ghost, and
Three - Can a Win2K system be "ghosted"?
One - Is there a difference between ghosting and imaging?
Two - Could it be that our IT and repair vendor are using the term "ghost or ghosting" interchangeably with Norton's Ghost, and
Three - Can a Win2K system be "ghosted"?
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I'd guess "ghosting" refers to using Norton Ghost and "imageing" to using Powerquests Drive Image. Both do the same thing, they store a bit for bit copy of the HD or partition, only in different proprietary file formats. In a few minutes the whole thing can be restored, for instance to a new HD. Both work just fine on a W2K sys.
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Imaging is the standard word in IT terminiology to describe a sector by sector copy of a HDD.
Ghosting came about from Symantec when they developed their Norton Ghost and Ghost Images hence "Ghosting"
Drive Image was developed by PowerQuest and is considered Drive Imaging when you use their software.
Now depending on the version you are using of Ghost or Drive Image you may or may not be able to image Win2K.
I know that Ghost 6.5 works and Drive Image 4 works as well. Ghost 6.5 has incorporated Image Spanning to accomodate Image sizes larger that the 2GB barrier. I believe Drive Image has done similar developments to their software.
Hope that helps
Ghosting came about from Symantec when they developed their Norton Ghost and Ghost Images hence "Ghosting"
Drive Image was developed by PowerQuest and is considered Drive Imaging when you use their software.
Now depending on the version you are using of Ghost or Drive Image you may or may not be able to image Win2K.
I know that Ghost 6.5 works and Drive Image 4 works as well. Ghost 6.5 has incorporated Image Spanning to accomodate Image sizes larger that the 2GB barrier. I believe Drive Image has done similar developments to their software.
Hope that helps
What I think your tech guy is trying to say is that you can't use Ghost on a Win2k system because Ghost can only write the image to FAT partitions, not NTFS partitions.
So if all of your partitions are NTFS, you won't be able to use Ghost (at least AFAIK) - but you should be able to use Drive Image because this can write to NTFS partitions (I think)
Hope this helps more!
AndyF
So if all of your partitions are NTFS, you won't be able to use Ghost (at least AFAIK) - but you should be able to use Drive Image because this can write to NTFS partitions (I think)
Hope this helps more!
AndyF
