Friday, April 4, 2008

Cloning Windows Server 2008 Disks with Norton Ghost


Just in case you're wondering, Norton Ghost 11.0.2 works just fine on Windows Server 2008 formatted disks.
I cloned a simple volume 160GB Western Digital disk to a new Western Digital 500MB disk in 47 minutes. I swapped the cables and booted up to the new drive without a hitch.
Posted by Jeff at 6:26 PM
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9 comments:

  1. Thanks for the article. So Ghost 11.0.2 works to clone Win 2008.
    Any idea if Ghost 14 can also clone a win2008 harddisk successfully?
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  2. I was unsuccessful with Ghost 8.0, also getting a Windows Boot Manager - Windows failed to start error. Using Ghost 11.0.2, I successfully imaged a smaller VMware vmdk hard drive to a larger one.
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  3. hi, would like to know if this has support over SAS disks? and also where i can download? :) thanks
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  4. Just a tip to others that have come across this while googling for an answer - indeed, Norton Ghost 11 (boot disk) does successfully clone Windows 2008 Server from one drive to another. I tried higher versions of Ghost with no luck. Norton Ghost 11 Corporate Edition DOS boot iso is fairly small, around 3 MB.
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  5. how can I get this ghost.exe file version 11?
    Thanks.
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  6. I think you mean GB? I haven't seen a 160MB drive in a while. :)
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  7. what about the newest version of ghost, does that work with win08?
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  8. Use windows backup and restore to move windows 2008 server to a new disk.
    Easy and brilliant.
    http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2008/07/hands-backup-and-restore-windows-server-2008
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  9. how can i backup windows 2003 server and run it in another computer using norton ghost and which version of ghost.plz need a urgent ans guys !!
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