From: Alan Carre on
"Gary G. Little" <gary.g.little(a)seagate.com> wrote in message
news:e4HWFYE4IHA.220(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Silly thought, but it would seem that as cheap as HDDs are, you could have
> purchased a 750 GB internal drive, cloned your current system drive to it,
> and no longer be fenced in. And done all of that for what it has cost to
> tell us why you "can't".

Do you mean something like old "Ghost" program for DOS? I thought that was a
thing of the past...

If it is possible, OF COURSE I would do it. To to go through the motions of
re-installing/re-configuring everything (including the OS) could take weeks.
Not only that, I think I've reached the "product activation limit" with my
copy of XP. I think it's set to 3 activations before you have to write to
them and provide proof of purchase (which I no longer have of course)...

- Alan Carre


From: David Craig on
There are two Ghost programs. One marketed to companies under the Symantec
name. It is a DOS based program and the current version handles NTFS
partitions well. It has a 32-bit version that can be put on a WAIK bootable
image and can work in protected mode if the drive is not supported very well
with INT 13h. I have used Ghost to save and restore partitions for testing
many times and it will save the activated OS so you don't have to reactivate
each time.

The second program, previously DriveImage from PowerQuest, is sold as Norton
Ghost and is a snapshot based backup while you are using your computer. I
have both and use them frequently. Buying 5 copies of the Symantec version
since it is an enterprise product is a pain, but I got mine a while back.

"Alan Carre" <alan(a)twilightgames.com> wrote in message
news:O$ANzxE4IHA.4800(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> "Gary G. Little" <gary.g.little(a)seagate.com> wrote in message
> news:e4HWFYE4IHA.220(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Silly thought, but it would seem that as cheap as HDDs are, you could
>> have purchased a 750 GB internal drive, cloned your current system drive
>> to it, and no longer be fenced in. And done all of that for what it has
>> cost to tell us why you "can't".
>
> Do you mean something like old "Ghost" program for DOS? I thought that was
> a thing of the past...
>
> If it is possible, OF COURSE I would do it. To to go through the motions
> of re-installing/re-configuring everything (including the OS) could take
> weeks. Not only that, I think I've reached the "product activation limit"
> with my copy of XP. I think it's set to 3 activations before you have to
> write to them and provide proof of purchase (which I no longer have of
> course)...
>
> - Alan Carre
>
>


From: Kerem Gümrükcü on
BTW, forget about ghost, we had several licenses
and now i use this:

http://www.clonezilla.org/
http://www.partimage.org/


Regards

Kerem

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"David Craig" <drivers(a)nowhere.us> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:e5CS63E4IHA.2332(a)TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> There are two Ghost programs. One marketed to companies under the
> Symantec name. It is a DOS based program and the current version handles
> NTFS partitions well. It has a 32-bit version that can be put on a WAIK
> bootable image and can work in protected mode if the drive is not
> supported very well with INT 13h. I have used Ghost to save and restore
> partitions for testing many times and it will save the activated OS so you
> don't have to reactivate each time.
>
> The second program, previously DriveImage from PowerQuest, is sold as
> Norton Ghost and is a snapshot based backup while you are using your
> computer. I have both and use them frequently. Buying 5 copies of the
> Symantec version since it is an enterprise product is a pain, but I got
> mine a while back.
>
> "Alan Carre" <alan(a)twilightgames.com> wrote in message
> news:O$ANzxE4IHA.4800(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> "Gary G. Little" <gary.g.little(a)seagate.com> wrote in message
>> news:e4HWFYE4IHA.220(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Silly thought, but it would seem that as cheap as HDDs are, you could
>>> have purchased a 750 GB internal drive, cloned your current system drive
>>> to it, and no longer be fenced in. And done all of that for what it has
>>> cost to tell us why you "can't".
>>
>> Do you mean something like old "Ghost" program for DOS? I thought that
>> was a thing of the past...
>>
>> If it is possible, OF COURSE I would do it. To to go through the motions
>> of re-installing/re-configuring everything (including the OS) could take
>> weeks. Not only that, I think I've reached the "product activation limit"
>> with my copy of XP. I think it's set to 3 activations before you have to
>> write to them and provide proof of purchase (which I no longer have of
>> course)...
>>
>> - Alan Carre
>>
>>
>
>

From: Alan Carre on
"Kerem G�mr�kc�" <kareem114(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Ok1LoGF4IHA.776(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> BTW, forget about ghost, we had several licenses
> and now i use this:
>
> http://www.clonezilla.org/
> http://www.partimage.org/

Thanks a lot for that. I'll check them out.
- Alan Carre


From: Carey Gregory on
"Alan Carre" <alan(a)twilightgames.com> wrote:

>Correction: I knew there was a DOS version *that can repartition an NTFS
>Hard Drive* but you still needed to boot into DOS to run it.

Try this. It's infinitely superior to Partition Magic.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/


No, I don't work for Acronis and have no financial interest in the
product. Just a satisfied user.