[pchelpers] Re: Norton Ghost

  Scott, both Ghost and Drive Image act similarly on the backup. 
I will presume since they are both older programs that they may 
not be designed to handle NTFS drives.
    In both of them the C: Drive is FAT32 and rather small. I 
suspect that these programs are looking at the Recorvery 
partition and calling it Drive C:  ..   Then the NTFS shows up 
as an NTFS partition but without a drive letter.  Drive Image 
gets sick when it reaches that point, Ghost tries to bacck it up 
but wants to back up the whole 9 yards which is 90% empty.
    I will probably have to bit the bullet and get a more recent 
version unless I decide to do somethig else. I burned the 
Recovery partition to a DVD, I used XP to back up the documents 
and Settings. So if the hard drive does go down right now I can 
recover to that point and then have to reinstall all the 
programs from scratch.  Much prefer a 30 minute restore from a 
Disk Image and have everything available.

Cy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott McNay" <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Cyril Halbach" <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 1:37 AM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Norton Ghost


> Hi Cyril,

> Saturday, October 30, 2004, 12:26:10 AM, you wrote:
> With NTFS, you also have security descriptors and some other 
> things;
> they're stored as files also, but they're carefully hidden by 
> the
> system. They probably shouldn't be more than about a gig in 
> size on a
> drive that size, though.  I don't know how big it should be, 
> but I
> would hope that that is an upper limit.  :)

> --Scott.

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