ROBERT SAYRE wrote in a message to MATT MC_CARTHY:

MM> We used "Drive Image" in the late 1990's.  It had (back
then) one major
MM> problem, in that the source and destination drives had to have the SAME
MM> geometry.  This tells me that it really performed an "Image Copy",
MM> as oppos
MM> to what Ghost is doing now.  This prevented us from copying a
MM> customer's da
MM> from say his old 1.2G HD to a new 6G Hd.

MM> One other problem that we never identified was that after using
MM> "Drive Imag
MM> FDISK always displayed LESS than 100% of the drive space, and had
MM> a tendenc
MM> show a ghost drive letter over the network.

MM> What you likely have is a much later version with more
MM> 'refinements', but I
MM> would suggest testing it on some "old drives" to make sure that
MM> you get wha
MM> you expect before using it on something important.

 RS>  My copy of Ghost (an older one) makes the new
 RS> drive the same size as the old drive (as long
 RS> as the new drive is at least as large as the
 RS> old one) when I chose to copy a drive.

 RS>  That's why I save an "image" to file, instead.
 RS> I can restore the image over the top of the
 RS> original (but contents altered) drive without
 RS> reformatting, etc. and I'm back to the point
 RS> when I made the image.

I haven't tried it yet,  but the "Drive Image" program that I got
on this cd in a book seems to have a lot of the same functionality.  Except
that I think you can restore to a larger partition than the one you started
with...

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