daigoba66 on Norton Ghost discontinued

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If using NTFS, you can't beat imagex.exe.

Sure you can. Per Microsoft,

  ImageX currently does not support the following NTFS features:

    - Extended attributes.
    - Object IDs.
    - Reparse points that are neither symbolic links nor junctions.
      ImageX will fail to apply them.
    - Sparse files. (They can be captured and applied, but they are
      no longer sparse after they are applied.)

A decent disk cloning utility should support all these things.

daigoba66 13y

Fascinating, didn't know all that. But I guess for basic imaging these aren't a big deal. It's what the Windows installer has used since Vista.

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