On Thursday 24 October 2002 12:27 pm, Tony Castro wrote: > Norton Ghost would be able to clone your whole hard > drive onto the bigger one. I use occasionally to image > my hard drive and i've never had problems with it. <snip>
That's correct Tony; it probably would do the job and cause no grief. But for a few minor sticking points: 1.) I'll never tell a user they need to buy proprietary software to accomplish a task that can be done for free using freely available existing tools. The reason is my own but simply put; I don't know whether the budget of the original poster has the flexibility to buy an utility that may only be used once, and not all demo versions of software will accomplish the task(s) required. 2.) Norton Ghost may be quality software; and work adequately well for most people, and give no grief, except it's _Windows software_ and I've seen Windows screw things up just because my face didn't display the correct expression. Or hadn't bowed to the southwest (from here anyway) and recite the "Bill Gates is a God" mantra three times. GNU/Linux will oops too at times, but that's usually a problem in the CTKI (chair to keyboard interface. *me* in other words) and doesn't usually commit suicide just because it's asked to work from a different address after it's been told the new address and has confirmed it knows the new address. DISCLAIMER: I don't use file sharing software but know some that do. I think it's bad form but that's just my opinion. 3.) If the answer to 1.) above is "Are you kidding? I can download it free from KaZaa or edonkey and use it, I don't have to buy it!;" I stop giving that individual any help with anything. Developers and programmers have to eat too. I don't think it's the right thing to do and will never advise it. Even as mildly distasteful as I find MS software and operating systems I try to help people that I know, but I won't help anyone that pirates a copy of anything. If they break it they're on their own and good luck to them. Just an opinion; and no I don't just run the download edition of Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSe (8.1 demo), whatever. I buy box sets when they're available and when I intend to continue using it after testing. That usually means every second release or more frequently. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org The Golden Rule of Arts and Sciences: He who has the gold makes the rules.
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