Drive Image question.

[algae]

Hi all,
I would like to make an image of my laptop's drive. It is connected to my home network. How can I have the image copy over to my desktop machine? I don't see the other computer available within DI and don't see how I can get to Network Neighbourhood.
Thanks for any help.
Gary

 

[Argo]

Use norton ghost. Make bootable floppies, and boot to ghost on both machines. Then select your laptop as the master, and your desktop as the slave, and start the transfer.

 

[bruzbros22]

Ummmmm, maybe it's me, but I think he's asking how to save the image file to his PC. NOT actually imaging his laptop to his PC. (I believe the Master/Slave is for doing the actual Drive copying)

The easiest way I can think of is getting a crossover cable (plug it into both of your NIC's)and use Netbios to connect to both of them and save the image file on the PC.

I hope that helps.

 

[Argo]

Norton ghost will allow you to save the image of your laptop as the FILE on your PC. At least the enterprise version we use at work does.

 

[Moonbender]

If you want to copy files, and both the desktop and the laptop have a 10 or 100 Mbit NIC, then do what bruzbros says. Get a crossover cable, plug it in and you're ready to go. Only works when connecting 2 computers, not more, but you don't seem to need any more than that.

 

[algae]

Sounds like that will work...thanks.

 

[overmars]

Norton Ghost, Image Cast, or Drive Image all work well. I don't think you probably want to pay $60 for a license of ghost, so I'd actually suggest that you try out a demo version of some software first. You can still make images of your hard drive with the trial software.

ImageCast trial

marc