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Drive Image/Ghost - file size? Store where?
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| Greetings all:
I'm in the process of getting Drive Image and/or Ghost and haven't used
either yet, but I'm wondering where/how you store an image. Say you go to a
client's house and they have a 100GB hard drive that's nearly full of
applications, games, photos, etc, and you make an image of it. I'm assuming
you end up with a compressed file. But even at 10:1 compression, that would
still be a 10GB file. Where would you suggest storing it - somewhere on his
drive? Or, somehow temporarily transfer it to your laptop/system?
thanks,
Cheers,
jt
jthomas2y@yahoo.xyz.com
(to send to my email, remove .xyz)
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| Count on a compression of not more then 2:1 and the image has to be stored
on another partition. Preferably on another disk.
AT
"jt" <diespam@diespam.com> wrote in message
news:C62Eb.72326$q37.24729@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com...
> Greetings all:
>
> I'm in the process of getting Drive Image and/or Ghost and haven't used
> either yet, but I'm wondering where/how you store an image. Say you go to
a
> client's house and they have a 100GB hard drive that's nearly full of
> applications, games, photos, etc, and you make an image of it. I'm
assuming
> you end up with a compressed file. But even at 10:1 compression, that
would
> still be a 10GB file. Where would you suggest storing it - somewhere on
his
> drive? Or, somehow temporarily transfer it to your laptop/system?
> thanks,
> Cheers,
> jt
> jthomas2y@yahoo.xyz.com
> (to send to my email, remove .xyz)
>
>
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| John Loop 2003-12-18, 8:24 am |
| Ideally you would like it to be on another drive - stick one in there if
there is room.
Otherwise, install partition magic and shrink the existing partition to make
room for a 10GB "Image" partition.
John
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www.pccitizen.com Safe Computing, Home wired and wireless networking tips.
"jt" <diespam@diespam.com> wrote in message
news:C62Eb.72326$q37.24729@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com...
> Greetings all:
>
> I'm in the process of getting Drive Image and/or Ghost and haven't used
> either yet, but I'm wondering where/how you store an image. Say you go to
a
> client's house and they have a 100GB hard drive that's nearly full of
> applications, games, photos, etc, and you make an image of it. I'm
assuming
> you end up with a compressed file. But even at 10:1 compression, that
would
> still be a 10GB file. Where would you suggest storing it - somewhere on
his
> drive? Or, somehow temporarily transfer it to your laptop/system?
> thanks,
> Cheers,
> jt
> jthomas2y@yahoo.xyz.com
> (to send to my email, remove .xyz)
>
>
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| mark mandel 2003-12-18, 11:24 am |
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"John Loop" <jdloop@remove.bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Ideally you would like it to be on another drive - stick one in there if
> there is room.
> Otherwise, install partition magic and shrink the existing partition to
make
> room for a 10GB "Image" partition.
> John
I've just done this via PM and the Norton Ghost imaging and it worked out
fine. However, being that this image was created on the same hard drive as
the source itself(but just another partition I created), I'll plan on
another backup to CD-R's.
Mark Mandell
> --
> www.pccitizen.com Safe Computing, Home wired and wireless networking tips.
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> "jt" <diespam@diespam.com> wrote in message
> news:C62Eb.72326$q37.24729@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com...
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| Sounds like its going to be a bigger file than I thought, and that putting
the image on a seperate drive and/or PM is the way to go. Thanks to everyone
for their comments!
Cheers,
jt
"jt" <diespam@diespam.com> wrote in message
news:C62Eb.72326$q37.24729@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com...
> Greetings all:
>
> I'm in the process of getting Drive Image and/or Ghost and haven't used
> either yet, but I'm wondering where/how you store an image. Say you go to
a
> client's house and they have a 100GB hard drive that's nearly full of
> applications, games, photos, etc, and you make an image of it. I'm
assuming
> you end up with a compressed file. But even at 10:1 compression, that
would
> still be a 10GB file. Where would you suggest storing it - somewhere on
his
> drive? Or, somehow temporarily transfer it to your laptop/system?
> thanks,
> Cheers,
> jt
> jthomas2y@yahoo.xyz.com
> (to send to my email, remove .xyz)
>
>
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| Barry Watzman 2003-12-19, 6:24 pm |
| Drive image can write the file to CD-R (and, I think, DVD), or it can
write it to the hard drive (different partition), but "broken up" into
CD-R or DVD media sized "chunks".
jt wrote:
> Sounds like its going to be a bigger file than I thought, and that putting
> the image on a seperate drive and/or PM is the way to go. Thanks to everyone
> for their comments!
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> Cheers,
> jt
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