XP-Pro + GHOST Back-up in Norton System Works

[jamestgordon]

Anyone out there have any success using NORTONs GHOST (in Norton System Works 2002) for doing Back-ups to a CD/rw or any other media?
Thanks, Jim

[WyllyWylly]

I've not tried Ghost yet - at least the SysWorks 2002 version. Are you having specific problems?

[jamestgordon]

Yes, The problem is that is is very poorly documentated and
I have been unable to get it to work.
I wonder if anyone else has succeeded in using GHOST.
PS I use Win XP-Prof + Norton Systemworks 2002 so I have the latest stuff.
Thanks Jim

[Ken_S]

Yes. I ghost my operations and data partitions using Ghost 2002 to another hard disk. I use a boot disk with a bat file to open ghostpe.exe. My downloaded version demands a serial number with each use--annoying. I have not attempted to ghost to a CD-R yet.
Ken

[Wood-Duck]

Yes - I have cloned both to hard drive and to CD-R with no troubles. The documentation is not good, but it is worth perservering with as it works well. I am not 100% sure on how to create a bootable CD-R though.

[jamestgordon]

thanks for the note -
it may not make you feel any better but it always requires the serial number with each use, even when installed via CD

[saclarke]

Note that ghost will not see NTFS partitions when run under dos. I have a C: partion (NTFS) for WINXP files and "Program Files." Everything else goes on d: "data" (NTFS) in order to keep the c: image to a reasonable size. A third partition is formatted FAT32 called "vault" and it is where i store my ghost images. i keep at least three images so if i save an image of a bad configuration, i can always go back to the one before that. In ghostpe, "vault" comes up as the C: drive.
for a "belt and suspenders" approch I periodically copy the ghost images and the important subdirectories from d: to my Linux box.