I have heard the the words "clones" and "images" both used and I don't
they are the same thing. I have been using Ghost 2003 and I think I am
making images. Could someone please tell the differences between the
two. I have used Ghost twice and failed harddrives and it put every
thing back perfectly. So should I be making clones or images????

Thanks

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Simon;

When you clone a partition/hard disk, this makes a direct copy from one
partition/disk to another. If the original partition could boot into
Windows, the clone should be able to do the same.

An image is a file that contains all the information on a partition/disk,
but it is just a file. If you image Drive C:, and store the image file on
D:, D: will not be a copy of C:, it will just have one or more image files
added to it. You can later open those image files in Ghost, and use them to
overwrite another partition or disk.

As to what you have been doing, if you have been creating *.GHO and *.GHS
files, then you have been making images. If you have been copying from
partition to partition or disk to disk, then you have been making clones.
I'll bet you have been making clones.

As to what you should be doing, if you want to make a backup, create an
image and burn the files to DVDs. If you just want to copy a drive, without
keeping a backup file of the data on the drive, make a clone.

TomC


"Simon" <noname@simonsays.com> wrote in message
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>I have heard the the words "clones" and "images" both used and I don't
> they are the same thing. I have been using Ghost 2003 and I think I am
> making images. Could someone please tell the differences between the
> two. I have used Ghost twice and failed harddrives and it put every
> thing back perfectly. So should I be making clones or images????
>
> Thanks

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