Norton Ghost 2002

[spoma]

I am trying to make a ghost image of my C drive so that when I want to rebuild I can just ghost the partition and then reinstall the rest of the software. This will save me a ton of time. I read a couple of things online that said to go in through dos and make the backup. The problem I am having is that the partition that I am trying to ghost is an NTFS partition with windows XP. how do I go about doing this? any help would be appreciated.

 

[AU Tiger]

I would like to know this too!

 

[NeoMadHatter]

<< I would like to know this too! >>



me too!

 

[iamwiz82]

I know Ghost 6.5 Enterprise has a boot disk maker which you use to create the ghost image. I would think that Ghost 2002 would have this same feature.

 

[BooneRebel]

It doesn't matter what you're running for the boot disk (DOS), Ghost will read the drive and the partitions on it. We use DOS disks to ghost NTFS partitions all the time.

 

[Netopia]

1. Make a bootable DOS floppy. I actually prefer to make bootable CD's since they are quicker to boot and allow you to have other utilities on the CD part of the disc. Remember to put Ghost.exe and ghost.env on whatever you are going to boot from, since you won't be able to get to the NTFS directory from a bootable floppy.

1. You MUST have a FAT or FAT32 formatted partition or logical drive to put the Ghost image on; this can be on the same or a different hard disc. Having it on a seperate disc on a different IDE channel will be the fastest. It must be large enough to hold the image. If you don't have a Fat/32 partion but do have a network, you can create a network bootable disc and then ghost to a shared drive on the network. This is slower that using a partition on the same disc and much slower than using a seperate disc in the same machine.

1. You should start ghost from the command line with the -split=(size) and -Z1 switches. The first will break your ghost into chucks of (size) so that you can burn them onto CD's to restore later. The second enables fast compression. The Z-level goes 0-9, with 9 being the tightest, but over level 1, the size doesn't get too much smaller but the time it takes to make the ghost image goes up quite a bit. I usually use -split=640 or -split=690 (depending on whethere I'm using 650 or 700 MB CD-Rs) ... this leaves room on the CD and I usually make the first CD in the series bootable so that I can just insert it, boot and roll.

If you've more questions, just post... I'm not a guru with the program, but I've done a lot with it, including ghosting unsupported things like an SCO Unix partition with an old Ghost 6.01 version!

Joe

 

[Hammer]

I used Ghost 2002 to backup my WinXP NTFS parition. You just need to use the included boot disk. You can even burned directly to CDR. It managed to squeeze my stuff in about 3 CDRs.

 

[wyvrn]

Ok since you offered

I have a USB 40GB hard drive (Buslink brand) that I would like to store ghost images on. Can you setup your DOS bootdisk for USB support? I am thinking not but thought I would ask anyway

 

[hoihtah]

using ghost 2002 to make back up images in cd's... that sounds great.
i gots to try it!

 

[Netopia]

If you can get the dos support/drivers for your USB drive then you can use ghost to get to it. It's only limited by whether or not you can use the USB device at all from DOS.

Joe

 

[wyvrn]

Ok something to look into. Thanks

 

[spoma]

thanks for all the help. i am going to give it a try tomorrow.

 

[phatboi]

hi, i was wondering what kind of bootdisk is need? what files do i need? b/c i have winXP and the there are a series of 6 bootdisk for it. i want to make a bootable image of my drive from CDR. i've already burned one straight to CDR and let me tell you, it took forever. but i'd like to make bootable images now. like WinXP where all you have to do is pop in the disk and let it do it's own thing. anyone know what bootdisk i would need? can you send me some files that i would have to put on this floppy? thanks a lot.

 

[spoma]

I just used a win98 boot disk. then i had copied the ghost files onto it and used it right from there. is pretty easy once you get the hang.

 

[NeoMadHatter]

<< I used Ghost 2002 to backup my WinXP NTFS parition. You just need to use the included boot disk. You can even burned directly to CDR. It managed to squeeze my stuff in about 3 CDRs. >>



have you tried restoring the ghost image? i did the same and it put it on 3 CDRs. when it booted it gave me some weird stuff.