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For Ghost.exe to access SCSI tape drives, a DOS ASPI driver must be installed
prior to use.
Ghost.exe in its default mode performs well with most tape devices. In some
situations with older tape devices and possibly with unreliable tapes, Ghost.exe
may need to be configured to slow down or alter the way it uses the tape device.
See “Command-line switches” on page 132.
Note: Ghost Explorer cannot access an image stored on tape.
Drives with BitLocker Drive Encryption
The compression option is not available when you take an image of a disk that
uses BitLocker Drive Encryption. Ghost performs a sector-by-sector copy of the
entire disk.
You must verify that the disk on which the image is to be restored is identical to
the source disk in every way. You should take a copy of a disk that uses BitLocker
Drive Encryption only as a backup. If you restore an image onto a drive that has
a different geometry, Windows Vista cannot interpret the disk.
Dynamic disks in Windows Vista/XP/2003/2000
Symantec Ghost supports backing up, restoring, and cloning simple or mirrored
volumes on dynamic disks. Spanned, striped, and RAID-5 volumes are not
supported by Symantec Ghost. You can back up an image of a partition on a disk
in a dynamic disk set to an image file. If you back up a disk, then all of the partitions
that Ghost supports on the disk, and only those partitions, are backed up to an
image file.
Operations that support dynamic disks are as follows:
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Partition-to-partition
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Partition-to-image
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Disk-to-disk
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Disk-to-image
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Check image
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Check disk
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CRC32
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CRC32 verify
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Drives with BitLocker Drive Encryption