Peter,
I think Ghost 2003 was the last version Symantec made. I also think
it is the only version that will restore & backup ntfs partition from
a dos boot disk.



Side Note for nonobaddog.-I don’t appreciate your comment. You need
to read your post again.

Ghost has been a Norton product since it's inception, and became Symantec property
when Peter Norton sold his company to Symantec.













On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 19:58:36 +1000, Peter Wilkins wrote:

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:43:07 -0700, Lou wrote
:

I've been using Drive Image 2002 with XP Home and now with SP2.

Recently found out PowerQuest was acquired by Symantec. At some time
I will have to replace Drive Image. Tried to seach Symantec site for
info on Ghost. Not having much success.

1. Is there a website to get detailed info on Ghost?

Yes.
http://www.symantec.com/

I specifically want to know if Ghost supports networked drives and
does it provide the means to create a DOS boot disk with TCPIP drivers
supporting networked drives to recover system in event of HDD crash?
I am doing all this with Drive Image 2002.

I don't know about earlier versions of Ghost, but I am successfully
using Ghost 2003 to backup images to network drives. I assume later
versions of Ghost will do it too. I use XP Pro.

There is a slight complication with Ghost 2003- the network drive that
you want to backup to has to be mapped on the computer being backed
up, but that's pretty easy to do, so it just appears as another
lettered drive on the computer being backed up.
I use Y and Z for the two partitions I alternately backup to.

I can read the images from the network using Ghost Explorer and easily
and quickly restore individual files if needed rather than the whole
image. That's a real pain to do using multidisc DVD or CD images.

I do find backup not fully reliable via my WiFi (11M) - sometimes it
has failed part way through the image. So when I want to do a backup
I plug in the wired ethernet link (100M) and have never had problems
with that.

You can create a networked boot floppy - if you have a floppy drive.
I had to buy a USB external one as my laptop didn't have one, just in
case I ever need it, but it's a bit belt and braces as you can also
create bootable DVD or CD images from Ghost. I keep a bootable DVD
image backup handy, that I can use to get the system back up, then I
can restore from the latest network image over the network.

So the floppy is really redundant but it came with a multi card
reader/writer covering the three cards I use (CF, SD and SM) so I
figured it was worth it.....