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FloydianOne · 05-21-2005, 12:05 PM

Ive never used Norton Ghost or other disk cloning software and I was wondering how it worked because I was thinking about purchasing one of them. Can someone explain what the advantages of these programs are? Does it somehow not do the same thing as just copying all the files from one hard drive to the other? I know that it somehow makes an image of the source harddrive and I was wondering, is this image the same size as the contents of the source hardrive, or is it significantly smaller? If its the same size then how does one take this image and install it on other systems without using a harddrive as big as the original harddrive?

Thanks for any help on the subject.

05-21-2005, 12:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
FloydianOne Crazy	Disk Cloning Ive never used Norton Ghost or other disk cloning software and I was wondering how it worked because I was thinking about purchasing one of them. Can someone explain what the advantages of these programs are? Does it somehow not do the same thing as just copying all the files from one hard drive to the other? I know that it somehow makes an image of the source harddrive and I was wondering, is this image the same size as the contents of the source hardrive, or is it significantly smaller? If its the same size then how does one take this image and install it on other systems without using a harddrive as big as the original harddrive? Thanks for any help on the subject. __________________ Fight apathy! ..... or dont.