Ok, I am hoping someone can bail me out on this one, again. First let me explain what I am doing. I using Nortons Ghost 2002, which I have never used before. I booted the two machines to the boot disk with PC-DOS and the ghost program. (both of these machines are Windows 2000 family machines, peer-to-peer, both NTFS file systems) Then I set one to slave and one to master. Here is where the problem is, I can only see A:\ on the slave. So after thinking about I figured out that this version of DOS does not reconize NTFS. I got my self a demo version of NTFSDOS pro, but it is only read only and full version costs $149 .

Ok, I am sure that there is a easier way to boot up into DOS and be able to read the file structure of NTFS or am I barking up the wrong tree... is there anyway of doing what I need to do (which is image a harddrive)?

Thank you in advance

Don't you just HATE the manual/instructions on Ghost? They suck! Okay, enuff.

You can image an NTFS disk/partition but only to a non-NTFS disk. So on your Slave machine (where you want the image written to), it must be in FAT or FAT32.

If you have a CD writer on the machine you wish to make the image OF, you can burn the image Ghost creates onto that by botting up with the drivers necessary to recognize your burner. Notice that CD's cannot be in NTFS format either.

If you still want to go to your slave machine, then you need a partition large enuff to hold the image file that Ghost will create, but this partition needs to NOT be in NTFS format.

To the best of my knowledge, the above is true.

Found this:

http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_1a.htm

I get lots of questions about NTFS. I use NTFS very limitedly, so if you have NTFS partitions, you'll need to do your own research. Symantec discusses NTFS here. I've heard that your destination partition cannot be NTFS, cuz DOS cannot write to NTFS partitions. For this reason, many NTFS users create one FAT32 partition on one of their hard drives, for the sole purpose of receiving (destination) & storing Ghost images.

Apparently you can restore an image of an NTFS partition from an image store on a FAT32 partition, but I'm not sure about this. Mike Holland writes in to confirm this, saying: "I can confirm that Ghost cannot "write" an image to a (destination) NTFS partition. I had to create a small FAT32 partition to use it. It *does* both write and restore images from NTFS (source) partitions just fine though, as long as you have a FAT32 (destination) partition to store/receive the image."

Mike also says that the latest version of Drive Image can image *to* an NTFS partition .. something the consumer version of Ghost can't do, at least not yet.

Win2K uses NTFS v5.0. WinXP uses NTFS v5.1. Ghost v2001 can create images from an NTFS v5.0 partition, but not NTFS v5.1. To create images of NTFS v5.1 partitions, you need Ghost v2002.