Hello,
We've just purchased "Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5.1".
We would like:
- to install a "test machine" that is to say:
- to install SIX Windows operating systems (OSes): Vista EN, Vista FR, Win7 EN, Win7 FR, Win8.1 EN, Win8.1 FR,
- to create clones of these operating systems.
To do this, we have a machine with TWO 1TB hard disk drives (HDDs) available.
Initially my idea was to install the SIX OSes on six 130GB partitions on the first HDD and then clone these six partitions on the second HDD.
It appears that I can't install SIX OSes on a single HDD ; apparently because each OS requires a primary partition and that we can only create four of them on a given HDD.
Do you confirm this?
My second idea was:
- to install THREE OSes on the first HDD, each one on a primary partition,
- to install THREE OSes on the second HDD, each one on a primary partition.
There would be only one primary partition left on each HDD.
I would like to know if I could create THREE logical partitions on the first HDD and clone the primary partitions on these three logical partitions?
If not, shall I create instead THREE backup image files, one for each primary partition, and store them in the fourth primary partition left on the first HDD?
And do the same for the second HDD?
Can you suggest a good scenario which includes SIX operating systems each one on its partition and their SIX clones/images with TWO 1TB HDDs?
Can you suggest a good preOS partitioning tool that I could use to perform these tasks (including creating logical partitions)?
I noticed that "Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5.1" includes the "gdisk" tool but I don't know how to use it at boot time, preOS.
Thank you for your help.
Best regards.