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Lil' Dave <spamyourself@virus.net> wrote in message
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> Top posted just for Ron,
I couldnt care less about where the posting is.
> Believe you're under the impression I was
> talking about XP throughout my previous reply,
Wrong.
> I wasn't in many, but not all, of your hit and run replies to my reply.
Pathetic, really.
> The OP's premise begins with saving from the OS environment,
> a requirement of the OP XP would be the OS in this case for
> saving the image of the entire hard drive and all its partitions.
Want to try that again in english next time ?
> Including any other OS partition, not mentioned by the OP.
> Ghost 9.0 does not work in the 98OS environment.
Irrelevant, the OP didnt even mention 9.0 and 9.0
comes with 2003 if you do want to do it from 98 etc.
> If you understood that, then you're mistaken about your
> replies in reference to the 98OS move to another PC.
Nope.
> And, you're setting people up for unneeded
> problems who follow through on your notions.
Nope.
> I won't reply on XP OS partition restoration, as I don't have enough image
> restoration experience to comment. From my chair, in the place of the OP,
> I would install XP from scratch on a new PC rather than attempt to use an
> image file restoration from another PC using Ghost 9.0
Your pig ignorance is your problem.
> No one challenged my 2GB image file size selection problem,
I chose to comment on your errors.
> nor the problem with multiple DVDs which is a different
> problem, so I assume its correct with Ghost 9.0
Stupid assumption. And he didnt even mention 9.0
> Nor did anyone challenge the need for a new MS
> XP product key if an image file restoration was
> used. So, will assume that is correct as well.
Stupid assumption again. It basically depends on how
different the hardware is between the system that the
image was created on and the one its restored on.
And you dont even know that he's even using
a version of XP that requires validation anyway.
> And, more importantly, that the OP understands this
> before making the decision to select and utilize a product
> for backing up his hard drive to restore on another PC.
Completely irrelevant to your errors I chose to comment on.
> "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> Lil' Dave <spamyourself@virus.net> wrote in message
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>> > Its unclear to me whether you want to clone another hard drive
>> > on the same PC, or create an image file to DVD for future
>> > restoration to another hard drive on another PC. Or both.
>>
>> > In regards to the latter, it can be done with Win98 OS installed with a
>> > multiboot XP as the environment for imaging. But, you have to prepare
>> > the 98 OS by removing the drivers referenced in device manager/registry
>> > first for best results on new PC, then install the new drivers.
>>
>> No you dont, it normally works fine without doing that.
>>
>> > In some cases, its best to uninstall printer, and video menu software
> first
>> > as well.
>>
>> Hardly ever necessary.
>>
>> > No experience here with XP restoration to a new hardware PC.
>>
>> You may well need to repair the install if the motherboard is different to
>> the one that the original install was done on, but that normally works
> fine.
>>
>> > If possible, am sure you would have to get a new product key from MS.
>>
>> Nope, not necessarily.
>>
>> > I would suggest a new install of XP on another PC platform.
>>
>> Thats just one way and you'd need a new key going that route.
>>
>> > You can carry any remaining partitions,
>> > leaving blank space for the XP installation.
>>
>> Its simpler to copy the lot and format the XP partition
>> at install time if you do want to go the clean install route.
>>
>> > Have heard of problems using multiple DVD media, when using the verify
>> > option, can't find the first DVD after burning all DVDs within Ghost 9.0
> I
>> > would subdivide the image files to 1GB files, then burn in ISO 9660
> format
>> > to DVD. The reason 2GB is not selected is the actual image file result
> will
>> > be slightly bigger than that. ISO 9660 allows no larger that 2GB file
> size.
>>
>> Makes more sense to specify say 1.9G or
>> whatever will allow 5 files to fit on a DVD.
>>
>> > You need another hard drive to burn these to in this case
>> > since you're imaging the entire hard drive. You can't image
>> > to any partition, if that target partition is being imaged as well.
>>
>> > Since I can't compare the products you mentioned, I can't
>> > make a suggestive reply to a selection for either. Best of luck.
>>
>>
>> > "Dan" <gamesstate@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> > news:1118415535.213484.146620@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> > Hello, Im intrested in purchasing a product to clone hard disks in
>> > Windows but I have a question before hand
>> >
>> > If I clone a hard disk into some DVD´s and the I want to restore that
>> > image into another hard disk on a new computer, a new, different
>> > size/brand hard disk. Is
>> > that possible? Is there a "correct" way to do it?
>> >
>> > Someone reccomendme either Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, but Im
>> > not sure if itll help me.
>> >
>> > I hope your answers help me to decide weather to buy the software.
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> > Dan
>> >
>> >
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