Do you guys use Ghost to clone drives?

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Photoshopped · #1 Post by **Photoshopped** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:11 pm

Don't thinkpads come with a backup software? Is that better to use to clone drives for thinkpads than ghost?

jlingo · #2 Post by **jlingo** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:39 pm

I was using Ghost 9 to clone my Thinkpad 43p and failed.
I have used Acronis and successfully cloned the harddrive.
I also don't use thinkpad clone software.

I don't have problem with using Ghost 9 and my Acer Travelmate 800.

I guess it's just the problem with T43p.

#3 Post by **Kyocera** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:56 pm

I have a slighly older version of Ghost and have had success with it, from reading this forum there are other products that are easier.

MadeInJapan · #4 Post by **MadeInJapan** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:26 pm

I use Ghost 7, and have no problems what-so-ever. I even have it loaded on a USB key so I don't have to do it from a floppy. When I exit Ghost I'm in DOS and can also access the rest of my key where I had other tools, like fdisk, etc. I have used this on my T30 and desktops as well as T23's but not with newer Thinkpads.

geep · #5 Post by **geep** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:46 pm

i used acronis true image without a hitch.

opusitibm · #6 Post by **opusitibm** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:45 pm

Guys, if you use ghost to clone HDD, remember to include -ib in Ghost command line, it works perfectly.

Photoshopped · #7 Post by **Photoshopped** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:57 pm

opusitibm wrote:Guys, if you use ghost to clone HDD, remember to include -ib in Ghost command line, it works perfectly.

What is that and can you select it in their Windows GUI in Ghost 9.0?

kyrotech · #8 Post by **kyrotech** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:18 pm

Photoshopped wrote:
opusitibm wrote:Guys, if you use ghost to clone HDD, remember to include -ib in Ghost command line, it works perfectly.
What is that and can you select it in their Windows GUI in Ghost 9.0?

-ib to copy some info on the hard drive needed for the cloning to be successfull (blame IBM recovery and restore for that)

If you backup your drive or partition within windows you need that advanced command or disk wont boot

#9 Post by **GomJabbar** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:23 am

Information on the Ghost -IB switch from IBM/Lenovo.

Photoshopped · #10 Post by **Photoshopped** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:39 am

GomJabbar wrote:Information on the Ghost -IB switch from IBM/Lenovo.

"Note: Source drive and target drive must be the same size."

WTF?? Don't tell me you can't clone a 30GB drive to a 100GB drive!

bcrooker · #11 Post by **bcrooker** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:12 am

Photoshopped wrote:
GomJabbar wrote:Information on the Ghost -IB switch from IBM/Lenovo.
"Note: Source drive and target drive must be the same size."

WTF?? Don't tell me you can't clone a 30GB drive to a 100GB drive!

Not sure about Ghost, but I recently did this with a coworkers T23 - upgraded the drive from a 30GB to an 80GB w/o problem. We used BootItNG to image the 30GB partition and restored it to the 80GB (still as a 30GB partition). Then you can use BootItNG to enlarge the 30GB partition to the full size of the drive. Worked perfectly.

pae77 · #12 Post by **pae77** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:19 am

Acronis True Image will permit you to clone a smaller drive to a larger drive. I used it toclone a 20 gig drive to a 60 gig drive a while back with no problems and when placed in the primary drive bay, the 60 gig booted up fine. I believe I was also able to clone a larger drive to a smaller target as long as the bigger source drive didn't have more data on it than the target could hold.

Ime, Acronis True Image is very easy to use, reliable and flexible disk cloning software.

monkey243 · #13 Post by **monkey243** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:00 pm

I have never cloned a HDD by using ghost.
But I have many times to use ghost8.0 to backup my system partition to image and then restore it.everything are going fine.
when restore the system,it just take me 5mins more faster than IBM's recovery and restore system.

susanna · #14 Post by **susanna** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:14 pm

I've used Snapshot, Ghost 8.5 Corp Edition, Acronis and now latest toy is Winimage which I like due to it's ease of use

Snapshot is by far the most compact backup but works fine in cloning

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