I think I allready know the answer, but just to check with you guys.
Whenever we replace a computer here at my work, we reimage the machine (with ghost) so that it can be used at another desk. Is reimaging an partition actually the same wiping that partition or is an image from ghost only data so no free space and not actually a whole partition image?
Is reimaging an partition actually the same wiping that partition or is an image from ghost only data so no free space and not actually a whole partition image?
I don't think this is possible to answer without knowing both what software you're using, how the particular image was created and how it is installed.
You can ask most hard drive image programs to overwrite the remainder of the disk or to leave it alone … it's a question of how you chose to run the program.
Same thing with how the image is created – is it a block image (rarely) or is it a file system image (usually – it's faster). If you run a block image, you typically get very few choices in how you reinstall it.
You have to tell Ghost to do a bit-for-bit copy by setting -IR [Image Raw] , so it is not done by default.
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