Second Norton Ghost Question

[jeff]

Another question please,

Will Ghost automatically format a brand new drive in NTFS before
transferring data or does a third part application have to do this.

Tia,

Jeff

 

[modiftek]

I have used Ghost on numerous occasions because I always keep a small
hard drive [2GB] copy of all my client's PCs that I worked on. This way
I find it very convenient to Ghost the small drive in case the client's
PC goes down due to Hard Drive problems / viruses / inadvertent erasing
of disk or drive failures. This method is a really good time saver
especially if the client is using the same motherboard.

From my experience using Ghost, you can take a brand new hard drive out

of the box, attach it and run Ghost. The information from the source
drive is copied onto the new drive including the file system. I have
done it with FAT32 and NTFS and really appreciates the fact that I
don't have to wait for the drive to be formatted.

 

[Rod Speed]

Will Ghost automatically format a brand new drive in NTFS before transferring
data or does a third part application have to do this.

Really depends on what you tell it to do.

If you clone an existing drive to a new drive, it will basically
format the new drive the same way the original is formatted.

And can expand the partition(s) if the new drive is bigger than the original.

Pretty clumsy in Ghost 9 tho, basically because you
cant do the clone after booting from the Ghost CD.
You have to install ghost on the original drive first.

Ghost 2003 which comes on the Ghost 9 CD
is a lot easier to use when cloning drives.

If you mean by 'transferring data' using the image browser to
do that, you have to format the destination partition yourself.