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From: prp17 at adelphia.net (Phillip R. Paradis)
Subject: Imaging Operating Systems

> 
> Ghost won't work (IIRC) on unknown OS types as it ony copies used data
> blocks. Netcat does a binary copy and does not care what OS or data...
> 

Not sure about newer versions of Ghost, but I know some older versions will copy
unknown partition types just fine; it merely does a bitwise copy of the
partition/drive, including empty space. The downside being that the disk
geometry of the target disk must be identical, since the copied partition/disk
cannot be adjusted due to Ghost being unaware of it's internal structure.