clone wrong drive norton ghost

[windowsxpofms]

Can anyone know how to back up the image before, I use drive to drive. but i dont know which one is master and slave, I want to backup the thing like before. Please Help.....clone wrong drive norton ghost

you could boot up to a ghost network disk and make an image over the network with a computer running a ghost server

[John Prophet]

Usually you can tell by the size of the drive.

And usually the "master" shows up on the top of the list.

What I usually do is have the hard drive I want to copy as the primary master...then hook the blank drive to the secondary.

Usually the primary master shows up on top...you pick IT as the source..then you pick the other as the destination.

if in doubt..boot with norton while just having the original drive hooked up....it will be th eonly one to show up so you can look at it and see the size of it as listed...the gb and number of heads etc.

Then when you put the blank drive back in you can tell the difference...by the sizes listed.

The only time you should be confused is when they are the exact same size.

And , yes, I have made the mistake once...I clicked to start the copy and it took less than one second and said it was done.....I was like "huh?"..then I realized I had ghosted the BLANK drive over top of the built drive..lol. Wiped it out.


As a matter of fact, that is th emethod I use now to format big drives. I have a bootable ghost cd with an image of a blank fat32 partition....so I boot and ghost that image to the new drive...boom, formatted drive in seconds.

JP