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I have a new PC on which I have installed Win XP
and
also Office XP and activated both products. I also have a couple of other
needed
applications installed I would like to use Norton Ghost 2002 to
image
the drive now so that I can return to this setup should I mess the machine
up
later.
There seem to be 3 main options for the type of image
that
Ghost creates (what a crap manual btw) the default -the sector by sector
and
lastly including the boot sector. Or in command switches -ia -iab -id
(& -ir). In order to preserve the activation keys that both XP and
Office
installed which must I use ? I am certain the default does mess
these
keys up as Symantecs site refers you to Microsofts on this issue, which
talks
about having to re-register them using SYSREP. I really do not want to do
this.
I think I'm on a second 'grace' call to Microsoft licensing already. The
image
will only ever be restored to this drive on this
machine.
If I use the latter options does the image then become
a
full size image ? i.e. I have about 5GB of data now on the 120GB drive -
the
rest I believe is normally skipped by Ghost if it recognises the partition
format - if I go to sector by sector do I lose the intelligent handling of
data
and need to provide a huge backup repository or will the compression take
care
of this ? - I don't want to start on CDR's and find I need 150 of them
! It
doesn't tell you in advance what you're going to need.
Kevin
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