Ghost Solution Suite

I have started a new job, and we have Ghost files as well as Power Quest files.

The Power Quest files were generated off site. Once I discovered Norton has aquired Power Quest, I am wondering if Norton has implemented the ability for Ghost to restore Power Quest Images.

Anybody know?

Thanks,

Tuckyguy

...best thing to do is to do a search and see if the file extension for Power Quest is supported in Ghost...

You might also want to read the forum query below...

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/supported-image-formats

The retail version "Norton Ghost" is based on the Powerquest technology and is the one most likely to work with your files. There is a link to the Norton community in a sticky posting at the top of the forum.

Since the PowerQuest image format is just a dumb bag-of-sectors (essentially identical to VHD/VMDK/VDI, using a similar kind of compression to that supported in VDI) it's actually supported both through the regular Ghost client and I believe through GhostCast.

Basically, because these formats are all just dumb sector bags, Ghost contains code to mount V2i and VMDK as if they were regular drives, and then uses a disk-to-disk clone on them since they are structured *as* raw disks rather than archives (as .GHO images are).

In the case of GhostCast this is a little tricker, so what GhostCast does is actually *launch a copy of the Ghost client* when you ask it to distribute a VMDK or V2i image, and this hidden copy of Ghost then does a disk-to-image clone into a named pipe, which the GhostCast server then distributes as a .GHO-format image to the Ghost cloning clients.