how do you ghost a HDD?

[novice]

How do you do that? I've heard of it but it's not clear...can somebody explain what it is and how to do it please? Thank you!

 

[Porkloin]

Ghosting is essentially the copying of a drive or partition to another drive or partition. Formatting and partitioning information are usually transferred from the source drive to the destination drive - the destination becomes a "clone" of the source. It's usually done booting up the ghoster and the ghostee from floppies created from within the ghost software.
I use the Norton Ghost software. I've copied drives via a parallel cable between laptops or two desktop drives connected as a master and a slave to the same IDE cable.
The coolest of them all is the ability to boot a laptop connected to the network and have it receive it's hard drive image from a server on the network. It takes about 8 minutes to have a freshly rebuilt and pre-configured laptop based on an image that I painstakingly created and saved to the Ghost server.
I've heard that there's other makers of ghosting software, but I've had no experience with them. I think Norton has the market pretty much cornered.

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[Spdy_Gonzales]

Check this out

<A HREF="http://www.fssdev.com/products/drive2drive/" target="_new">http://www.fssdev.com/products/drive2drive/</A>

I wonder...what is the speed of gravity?

 

[novice]

Nice guys! Thanks a lot! I've gotta go check the Norton Ghost out and compare it with the one above.

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[novice]

OK...I ran to pricewatch and found out there are two Norton Packages that actually have "Ghost" in it. Here are the two: Norton System Work 2001 = $11 and Norton Ghost 2001 = $55. Could somebody tell me which one is right for me? In terms of money and performance...Thanks a lot!

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[camieabz]

System Works doesn't have Ghost.
System Works Professional does.

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[novice]

Sorry...I'm talking about System Works Professional 2001...

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