How does one ghost the entire image of a HD?

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Fat Bones
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How does one ghost the entire image of a HD?

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If a large company is replacing computers, do they store the entire contents of each PC on the server, one at a time, or pull the HD install it in the new PC?

Or....connect it P2P and transfer?


or what?
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They do not do it using ghost to copy the old PC's hard drive. Ghost is generally used to back up drives and settings. In general, they would ghost a clean install and replicate that to all the new PCs. Then they will assist you with moving your data from PC to PC. This might be accomplished using an external hard drive (usb/firewire), a file server or direct PC to PC copying through the network or with some serial PC-PC connection.
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Post by Shlomart Ben Yisrael »

A large company would do a network install

Yeah...what Taco said.

For personal backups, Norton Ghost is fine, but I'm hearing great things about Acronis.

To do a complete drive copy from an old hard drive to a new hard drive, most drive manufacturers will provide free of charge a program to do this. I know Maxtor's comes on a floppy (you can also download from their website) called MAXBLAST.
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