Ghosting question

[edicWHUN]

If I wanted to ghost one drive to another, what's the difference between using Ghost or simply copy/pasting the drive to the backup drive?

 

[TheBinaryOpinio]

Using Norton Ghost makes a hard disk image that is usually a single file. When you copy the entire hard disk you screw up the architecture of the next drive. Sometimes erroneous data is not duplicated properly.

 

[per]

If you are using XP copying the drive will not copy the registry. You must clone the drive using ghost, casperxp, or ranish.com. Just copying a partition in ghost will not give youa bootable hdd. You must clone the drive.

 

[r53s]

If you don't have Ghost, make it with Western Digital's Data Lifeguard, it won't cost you, only download from WD's website...