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Originally Posted by Beavis
just do a image back up.
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Hey Beav,
Thanks for your help here (and everybody else). In Ghost 9 there is no clone choice that I can find (it does run in windows). There is a Copy Drive option that I assume is the same thing. I copy the Master Boot Records (MBR) when a copy is made but do not set the drive as THE bootable drive because I do not want to destroy the intergidy of my C:\ drive, I just want a bootable backup copy. The help files do not explain this well. After I copy the C:\ drive, I shut down the computer, remove the C:\ drive (both drives are on the same cable Mark
), leave the copied drive and it will not boot up.
I made a set of boot discs (from microsoft) but they did not make the "cloned" drive work either. I could not find a way to make a set of Norton Boot discs within Ghost 9. The only way I see to get Ghost to let me make the boot discs is to reformat the drive and start from scratch. That's the only time Ghost 9 offered to make a set of boot discs. I was under the impression that I did not need a boot disc so I did not make one plus I just don't use floppy disc anymore.
While using Seagate's Disc Wizard for Windows to reformat the second drive, I found an option to make a copy of the C:\ drive with the intentions of leaving both drives in the computer. I'm running it right now to see if it will give me a bootable backup. If it does not I will do some more tests with Ghost 9. Disc Wizard seems to be copying but man is it slow!
While trying to make something work I put the Ghost disc in the CD burner and a program came up but I could not find a way to make it boot the copied drive.
Once again Norton's products have turned out to be "user unfrienly". There is just no need for this unless it's to make money off of support calls. I'll buy a different program that works before I pay Norton support. This is the last (only one I ever bought) Norton product I will buy BUT I do own a copy of the program and would like to make it work, if it's possible.
Thanks again everybody for your help, I'll keep you updated. Keep you fingers crossed!
Jim
