Imaging Disk w/Norton Ghost 10

[ThatOldDude]

Okay I bought two WD74GB Raptors and plan on installing Windows XP on one and my games on the second. I also have a copy of Norton Ghost 10 that I would like to use to make an image of my OS drive (cause I'm tired of calling India to authenticate my activation every time). I plan on installing the OS, installing drivers (chipset, video), and then activating XP, then i would make the image. So my question is, in Norton Ghost, would I "Copy the hard drive" or make a "recovery point" of my OS drive? TIA.

 

[dchrsf]

Make an Image, not copy.

Copy would copy it to another location (ie. another local disk so that disk would be basically identical to the one the copy is being copied from), so make an image, and store it somewhere safe

Oh, and I think the help files tell you this.

 

[ThatOldDude]

Yeah I haven't installed it yet, but have been looking through the manual (I actually RTFM!! LOL!) and didn't see anything pertaining to disk imaging....only references to hard drive copy and recovery points. Hmmm....I hope NG 10 has the ability to do a disk image.

 

[davidlem]

NG 10 will do the trick. I used it when upgrading from my Maxtor 120GB ATA to WD 250GB SATA. Resized my partition properly and everything.

 

[ThatOldDude]

AAARRGGGHH!!!! Apparently Norton Ghost doesn't support imaging RAID arrays. Crap!! That was the main purpose of getting this software. I read that Acronis True Image DOEs support this feature....anyone have any experience with ATI imaging?