""Jukka I Seppänen"" wrote:

Concerning Symantec's Ghost (7.51):

Any practical tips to make ghosting more secure and ease when
cloning disk to disk? Sizes, partitions, etc. are almost same so
formatting target disk before cloning is a (bad) option.

No way to name/label them, or must change to some other cloning
software?


You don't say what the problem is.

In my own periodic archiving of clones, I put folders on the
Desktop of the new clone before I start it up that have names
that identify the date of cloning and which hard drive they're
on and which partition they are in on the archive hard drive.
Then, when the clone is started up, I can see from a glance
at the Desktop that I have the right clone. This is easy to do
with the utility that I use because the entire cloning process
is done with Windows running, and when the process is done,
I have immediate access to the clone's file structure. That
utility is Casper XP, and you can download a free 30-day trial
copy from www.FSSdev.com/products/casperxp/ .

If you want to keep multiple clones on a large backup hard
drive as I do, it's easy if you know the syntax of the boot.ini
file. If you want to get into that, Google for my posting on
"The meaning of "rdisk()" in January of this year in this NG.
What I said about PATA drives applies also to SATA drives
except that there is no concern with jumpering. If you get into
maintaining multiple clones - all equally bootable - it helps to
put hard drive and partition location information into the text
string portion of each entry in boot.ini so you know what
you're selecting at boot time.

*TimDaniels*