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[alzebra]

I spent too much time on reinstall the whole systems. Could anyone tell me the details on how to ghosting the partitions and make them easier to be restored?

I have two hard drives. 20GB one has dual boot with win98 and win2k. Five partitions:
C:\win98 OS D:\win2k OS(NTFS) E:\win98 Apps F:\win2k Apps(NTFS) G:\documents storage.
4GB one as backup.

I wonder if I can burn the images into cdroms and if the system crash, I can slip in the cdrom and get restored as it used to be.
1) In the dual boot case, if my win2k crashed, can I format my D: partition and restore it from image, and still have the intact dual boot? Or the same case in win98 case?
2) What else I should burned along with the partition image into the cdrom so to let them auto boot?
3) What if my partition exceeds the 650MB, can I seperate them and burn them into several cdroms and still works the same?
4) I can store the image on my backup drive, what's the best and safe way to save the ghosts.

I did a search but didn't find much details on these.😉

 

[ArkAoss]

well i think i can help you.
If you make a ghost boot disk with ghost 2001, it has the ability to burn images from dos. And span cd's, also it should make the first of those bootable. And since you can back up each partition on its own, you should be able to grab the win2k and restore just it as well. (i think i'll be doing this tonight, just finalized a huge partition scheme, 9 parts, 5 os's and working bootmenu too)
About backing it up as one image to another drive, that should work too, if the drive has room and is stable. I really hafta do mine to cd's, because both my HD's make bad noises.

Any other questions? LMK, or pm me. I have a bit of expierience with ghost, and should be able to help.