Norton Ghost 2002 Issues

[omniflare]

I'm currently trying to get my harddrive from the source 40, to the destination 60. the source is going bad and i want to image it disk to disk to the 60 before it dies.
When i go to hit disk to disk, it lets me select the 40, but when it asks for the destination drive, the 60 isnt a selectable option. Am i missing something? What am i doing wrong?!

 

[Rollin_Again]

What format is your 60 gig drive? If the destination drive is formatted as NTFS, your version of Ghost will not be able to access it. Ghost 2003 supports NTFS partitions but earlier versions do not.


Rollin

 

[omniflare]

You have got to be kidding me. The source drive is NTFS and it picks it up just fine. So it cannot do a disk to disk ghost if the destination is NTFS?

 

[Rollin_Again]

That is correct. The quote below comes directly from Symantec web site. Sorry!

Ghost's ability to save an image file directly to an NTFS partition depends on your Ghost version:

Symantec Ghost 8.0 and Norton Ghost 2003 can save image files directly to NTFS partitions.

Ghost consumer versions other than Norton Ghost 2003 cannot save image files directly to NTFS partitions. See the section "Alternative storage locations." Note that the version of Ghost included in Norton SystemWorks Professional Edition is a consumer version.

The ability of Ghost corporate versions to save an image file directly to an NTFS partition depends on whether your Ghost version supports that connection type and whether that connection type supports NTFS.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/2000012811284125

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[omniflare]

yea i checked that out after you wrote your first post. damn my luck. I'll see if i can score a copy of 2003 or something thatll do the job. or at least try and figure out some sort of work around.

 

[Triple6]

You can use a free drive utility from the manufacturer of one of the hard drives to clone the drive - not create an image so it will overwrite everything on the source drive.


Also Ghost 2002 can ghost/clone a NTFS drive, just not write an image to a NTFS drive. In this case you need to check that the drive is connected properly and recognised in the BIOS.

 

[omniflare]

See i thought that didnt make sense. this drive is just fine, and the computer see's it and i can put anything on it i want. I got to do a disk to disk, and it SEE's the 2nd drive , but wont let me select it as the destination drive.

 

[Triple6]

If you do plan on just cloning the entire drive, ie overwritting the new drive, then download and run the hard drive manufacturer's utilities.