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Originally Posted by FloydianOne
So is it pretty much the same thing as taking an image of a cdrom? Like after you take an image of your hard drive you can then go and mount it as if it was the same hard drive as the one you took the image of? Im curious how much space you can compress it to, like I have a 80gig hard drive partitioned into 10, 70... that would be alot of dvd-r. Also does ghosting support partitions?
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I haven't imaged a CD ROM. I have imaged a hard drive onto a newer, bigger hard drive, then used the new drive as my boot HDD. As I recall, getting the new HDD to boot into Windows the first time required the Windows CD.
High compression on Ghost is 50%. I'm sure it somewhat depends on what type of data are on your computer, i.e. data vs. programs. Obviously, a compressed one couldn't be mounted as a boot drive.
You can get 50 DVD-Rs around here for under $15.
Ghost says you have to copy partitions one at a time to the new drive.
You've now exhausted my knowledge of the subject.