Hello everyone. I used to use ghost a long time ago when it was an exe file you could run and make an image of your partition, hard drive, or copy a hard drive to another hard drive. I used it at my old job for creating images of computers with different OSes on them so I could test hardware and always have a clean reproducible test. Being able to run ghost in a dos environment was nice because you never had to worry about files in use. But that was years ago and I know ghost has changed a lot.
I have not used it since the "old days" and wanted to know how it works now.
Does it restart the machine into it's own dos like environment to make an image or does it do it while the OS is running?
Can you still make images of an entire hard drive (3 partitions) or will it only do one partition at a time?
I have some laptops that I want to make images of so I can restore them if I have problems. I have the OS on C, program files on D and a separate hard drive for documents and quickbooks files. I would like to make an image of Hard drive 1 (C, D, and original image). This is on a couple machines that employees would be on so it really isn't something I want them to do or decide to cancel because it is slowing the system down (or whatever reason they'd give) I'd prefer something I could just walk up to the system at night and either boot off a USB memory stick and create a image of the first HD.
Will ghost still do this?