[lug] Drive Imaging between dissimilar drives?

[siegfried]

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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Fligg [mailto:ryan at celebrityaccess.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 9:42 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Cc: siegfried
> Subject: Re: [lug] Drive Imaging between dissimilar drives?
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> On Wednesday 05 July 2006 23:03, siegfried wrote:
> 
> I have used Norton Ghost for many years.  I have setup enterprise
> installations and many imaging solutions.  Norton will allow you to
> image dissimilar drives.  I have only used Norton Ghost to create an
> image from a drive and then reimage to a larger drive. I have never
> had success imaging to a smaller drive, for obvious reasons. I have
> used Norton Ghost to create images and then setup a PXE server so
> enterprise clients could choose which image they would like to use at
> boot time.  Along with roaming profiles (for windows side) and NFS
> mounted home directories (for linux side).  This created a fairly
> mobile and safe environment.
> 

My 100GB disk has boot paritions for both Fedora Core 4 (ext2) and Windows
2003 Server (NTFS). Can I expect Norton nad partitionlogic to preserve the
master boot records and the grup installation so I'll be able to boot both
operating systems on my new 300GB disk?

> >
> 
> Many use Knoppix or QTParted to accomplish resizing and manipulation
> of partitions.  There is an open source product called Partition
> Logic, http://partitionlogic.org.uk/ , that can accomplish some of the
> things Norton Ghost can do.
> 
> 

Which would you recommend? I like to support open source but partitioning is
a delicate operation that needs to be done properly. I would not mind paying
$70 if the job gets done correctly.

Siegfried