Norton Ghost

[jgerman1]

Anyone know what the differences are between Norton Ghost 2002 and 2003?

If that list is too long, is there a web site that compares the two side by side?

[not important]

I have Systemworks 2002 Pro & Systemworks 2003 Pro
Ghost in the 2003 is a lot better program. You can do your "ghosting" from windows.

[casey]

Ghost 2003 can be run from windows and supports NTFS

[doctorgonzo]

Ghost 2002 also supports NTFS.

From what I have heard, Ghost 2003 runs in Windows only when it is doing anything other than ghosting your drive. Thus, you can tell it you ghost your drive from Windows, but after you hit "okay" or whatever it has to reboot into DOS in order to do the actual work. That's not much of an improvement. Whether the PC boots into DOS before or after you tell it to ghost doesn't make much of a difference.

So far, I haven't been able to see much difference between the 2002 or 2003. I use 2002 and I see no reason to upgrade.

[glc]

I don't think there are ANY imaging programs that will write the image in Windows, due to open and locked files.

[jgerman1]

Thanks for all your replys. I was looking at purchasing System Works 2002 because it is so cheap.

I'm really interested in GHOSTing an NTFS partition that has XP loaded on it. If I have another partition set up as a FAT32 partition, from what I undertstand, I can create the image file on that FAT32 partition.

[doctorgonzo]

Originally posted by jgerman1 f I have another partition set up as a FAT32 partition, from what I undertstand, I can create the image file on that FAT32 partition.

That will work just fine. I do pretty much the same thing.

[HAL9000]

I've been using Ghost from within Windows 9x since Ghost 3.0. It would be nice if it would work from NT based NTFS systems that way too.

[casey]

Doctorgonzo & GLC is correct, but 2003 is better for the novice to use. It has better wizards in windows to create the various boot discs and when cloning disks or making images the commands are given in windows and Ghost automatically restarts to dos and does the Imaging / cloning and then automatically back to Windows. Also the verification is done automatically.
The improvement I see is the cloning/imaging part, because this is where most people has the problem.

[HAL9000]

Well.. I dunno guys.. since Ghost 3.0, I have NEVER restarted to DOS to make images or clone drives from Win9x.