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[Night]

I purchased Norton Ghost 15 with the understanding that I could clone a hard drive.  All the partitions, MBR, and all into one file.  I am not able to find this option in ghost.  Could you please point me in the right direction?

Mark

[DStain]

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Night wrote:

I purchased Norton Ghost 15 with the understanding that I could clone a hard drive.  All the partitions, MBR, and all into one file.  I am not able to find this option in ghost.  Could you please point me in the right direction?

Mark

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The first thing you need to do is run a "One Time Backup" onto preferably an external drive, that will create a "Recovery Point" which creates the .v2i files necessary to "Clone" the drive.

There is an option in Ghost to "Copy My Hard Drive" which is in effect a "Clone" but do as I say first of all then get back to us for further instructions.

It would be helpful if you could post a pic of your disk management to help us talk you through the process.

It is far better to ask before you start that way you will be able to complete the task without a problem.

Deric 

[Night]

I have 5 kids all with computers.  What I am wanting to do is get the computers all updated and with the apps they want.  Then do a image and place that on a dvd or Blu-Ray.  So I can do a rapid repair.

I want to do like Dell and HP.  I want to make a recovery disk.

I want want want ;)

Mark

[Brian_K]

Mark,

Unfortunately, Ghost 15 is licensed to use on a single computer.

If you don't want to buy 5 licenses get a free imaging app and create images of each computers' HD and store the images on an external HD. If a computer has a HD failure, etc, restore the image.

[DStain]

Mark,

Yes you can run your backups onto DVD, I don't know about Blu-Ray, far better and much more reliable is to invest in a USB powered external drive 500 gig-1TB and create a folder for each of the computers and then run a "one time" backup of each pc into the respective folders.

Once that is done you have a reliable backup of each pc, if you have a problem with any one of them you can run a reimage but bear in mind that Ghost is licensed for 1 pc only.

Deric

[DStain]

Brian, we must be on the same wave length.

Deric

[Night]

So the salesman lied to me just to sell this product!  I told him exactly what I was going to do.  Pop the hard drives out, image them, create a self install DVD/BluRay disk.  Then put the hard drives back.

Anyone want a Norton Ghost?  I have installed the software but have not entered the serial number.

Mark

[Night]

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DStain wrote:

Mark,

Yes you can run your backups onto DVD, I don't know about Blu-Ray, far better and much more reliable is to invest in a USB powered external drive 500 gig-1TB and create a folder for each of the computers and then run a "one time" backup of each pc into the respective folders.

Once that is done you have a reliable backup of each pc, if you have a problem with any one of them you can run a reimage but bear in mind that Ghost is licensed for 1 pc only.

Deric

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I have seen a boatload of hard drives fail.  The only CD/DVD/BluRay disks I have seen fail.  Was because of rough storage.  Scatched all to heck.  Backing up to a hard drive, even a raid arry, is a poor choice for a static backup.

The store agreed to a refund.  So case closed.

Thank you for looking at this.

Mark

[redk9258]

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Night wrote:

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I have seen a boatload of hard drives fail.  The only CD/DVD/BluRay disks I have seen fail.  Was because of rough storage.  Scatched all to heck.  Backing up to a hard drive, even a raid arry, is a poor choice for a static backup.

The store agreed to a refund.  So case closed.

Thank you for looking at this.

Mark

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You are wrong about that. Optical media is not reliable for long term storage. I have had several discs that are no longer readable. Not damaged in any way, just no longer readable. I have never lost a HDD without warning first. I don't mess with RAID. it seems too complicated to me.

[DStain]

You just can't get the message across to some people.

Deric