Question about Norton Ghost

[Bob Cunningham]

I have a 10-gig internal hard drive and an 80-gig external.

My question is: If I install another 80-gig external HD, can
I use Norton Ghost to ghost two hard drives, one to each of
two separate partitions on the new drive?

 

[archie]

sounds like you just need a whole new box....

 

[Tashtego]

Bob -
Archie wasn't very helpful.
If Nrt Ghost presently recognizes both your internal and
external drives, and works the way you want it to, I see
no reason why it shouldn't work similarly with another
external. If you are using NTFS you will need one of the
more recent releases of Ghost.
Tash ----------------------------------------------------

 

[Bob Cunningham]

I missed Tash's and Archie's responses the day they sent
them, but I just found them at Google Groups. Thanks to
both.

My question was not whether Norton Ghost would work with a
second external drive. I had assumed, right or wrong, that
it would. But that's a separate question.

My question was whether I could use NG to continuously ghost
*two* separate disks: a 10-gig internal and an 80-gig
external. That is, I would have three HDs altogether: the
present 10-gig internal, the present 80-gig external, and an
added new 80-gig external. My hope is that I would
continuously keep backed up all changes on *both* of the
original drives. The added 80-gig drive would be solely
dedicated to ghosting the other two hard drives.

It would be great if I could get reassurance from someone
who is already doing this.

I would be using the Norton Ghost that comes with Norton
System Works 2004, so it seems safe to assume it would be
the latest version.

My present 80-gig external drive is currently formatted
FAT-32, but I plan to change it to NTFS when the copy of
Partition Magic I've ordered arrives. The new 80-gig HD
would also be formatted NTFS. I assume I could leave the
10-gig HD formatted FAT-32, but I could change it if there
was a good reason to do so.

I had strange things happening when I tried to copy more
than 30 gigs to a single partition on the 80-gig HD, and I
think I understand why that was. It had been explained to
me that I can't create a FAT-32 partition larger than 30
gigs, but that I could write more than 30 gigs to a HD that
was already formatted FAT-32. As of now, I don't think
that's true. The indications I was getting were that the
FAT-32 didn't want to accept more than 30 gigs. Am I wrong
about this?

Thanks again to Tash and Archie for taking the time to
respond.


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