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Re:Norton Ghost discontinued by jstanley on Saturday May 04, 2013 @03:33PM (#5656049)
Not entirely sure what Ghost does, but... dd?
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Re:Norton Ghost discontinued by derekp7 on Saturday May 04, 2013 @03:40PM (#5656073)
Ghost is like dd, but with filesystem knowledge (i.e., so it won't dump block belonging to deleted files, and can restore do a different size disk). Somewhat like what dump/restore is on Unix file systems, but of course with Dos/Windows support.
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Re:Norton Ghost discontinued by fnordfnordfnord on Saturday May 04, 2013 @04:22PM (#5656200)
>Ghost is like dd, but with Microsoft Windows filesystem knowledge,

And limited or no support for other filesystems. It was very convenient if you were a MS-only, and could be troublesome if you tried to do anything fancy with another OS. In versions after 2003 Norton began adding some support for other filesystems.

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Re:Norton Ghost discontinued by chokolad on Saturday May 04, 2013 @03:59PM (#5656117)
imagex from Windows AIK (or windows ADK if you want win 8 version)
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