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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:39:24 PDT
From:	"Gary Wong" <wonggd@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Ghost vs. Drive Image

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Jerry Rash uses Ghost at work to copy OS/2 drives.

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 23:49:44 PDT, J. R. Fox wrote:

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>I know that some SCOUG member(s) use Norton Ghost, since it was
>mentioned at one of the last couple meetings. I've been a
>longtime user of the competing Drive Image to make whole
>partition backup images, but the latter's
>packet-writing-direct-to-CD feature never worked on my hardware.
>So, when I saw Ghost on sale, I bought it to try some
>comparisons. Haven't had the chance to actually do this yet, but
>I've read some of the documentation, which points up certain
>differences and possible issues.
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>DI recognizes and can handle HPFS automatically. (Version 4,
>anyway. Per some reports, Power Quest seems to have dropped
>*any* remaining functionality relevant to OS/2 from their
>Partition Magic product, and may have done the same with the new
>version of DI, which has just been released.) Ghost can only
>cope with HPFS partitions via a sector-by-sector copy mode, which
>-- if I read this right -- does not yield a compressed image,
>whereas DI's can be compressed up to 50%. That would be a major
>PITA, if you are trying to archive onto a single CD.
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>Further, the Ghost docs say that for Restore purposes, due to
>drive geometry issues, an HPFS image can only go onto another
>h/d of _the same model and size._ It says this is because there
>is specific drive geometry / location info contained in the HPFS
>partitioning. If true, that almost makes the program worthless
>to me. The thing is, I'm pretty sure I used DI for several
>partition restores, a couple years ago when I migrated from my
>old hard drive, a 4.5G Quantum, to the 9.1G IBM I've used ever
>since. (Both H/Ds were SCSI.) And everything worked just fine.
>But apparently, Ghost would not be able to do this, nor would it
>be of use when I migrate again to a larger H/D. This is also
>important because my DAT drive now needs repair or replacement,
>so I presently have no other backup option available.
>
>Any of you Ghost users care to step up in defense of this program
>? (I have the "2001 Personal Edition" for Win98/NT/etc. It's
>Command Line version, included, works under real DOS.)
>
>Jordan
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