On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, perrin wrote:
> > Well, if you have Ghost (I don't), you could test it...
>
> The last time I used Ghost it was to make an exact duplicate of a hard
> drive on another drive so that someone's settings and data could be
> preserved in moving to a new (already assembled) system with a new hard
> drive, prior to clearing out the old drive so that the old system could
> be passed on to another user.
I used it once upon a time to copy and expand a Windows 2000 "hard drive"
in an emulator. That was tricky...
> As far as I recall, it didn't involve any overhead,
No, when copying, it doesn't. I was thinking when reading a hard drive
into a huge file.
> though that might have something to do with the fact that I used a
> bootable floppy with Ghost on it.
I think you have to. Probably Ghost wants to make sure the volume doesn't
have any in-use files when it does the copy.
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