[lug] Drive Imaging between dissimilar drives?

[Ryan Fligg]

On Monday 10 July 2006 22:09, siegfried wrote:
> > -----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?
> >
> > 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?

Since I have used Norton Ghost, it has not preserved the GRUB/LILO MBR 
settings.  I have always restored the Windows partition first, then the Linux 
partition and then ran an install of the Linux OS to get GRUB to pickup on 
the Windows partition again.

>
> > 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.
>

I love open source, but Ghost has always worked for me and I stick with it.  
Drop the $70.00 and save yourself some headaches.  Partitions are not the 
place to be experimenting.

> Siegfried

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