norton ghost experts - need some help!

[Taylorm]

ok i downloaded norton ghost from tweakfiles.com. I have no clue what to do. if anyone could fill me in id appreciate it. i want to backup my entire harddrive and format

 

[Dave]

Suggest that you snag a copy of the ghost.pdf file that contains detailed instructions for using Ghost ... you need to check and see which version of Ghost that you have, although ver 5.1c, 5.1d and Ghost 2001 are basically the same ... or you could just crank it up and take not of the menus .... they will tell you most of what you need to know in order to create ghost image files, or to clone one hard drive to another ...

Good luck.

 

[Jeff H]

Taylorm, I've run Ghost just enough to be dangerous, but in order to make an image of your drive, you're either going to need a second hard drive (or partition on your current drive) or a writeable device such as a CD-R or CD-RW drive. W/ Ghost you make an image of the drive, then place that image in another location (second partition, second drive, removable large capacity drive, etc), format the original drive, and ghost the image back to that original drive.

Ghost will also let you copy a drive (single or multiple partition) to another hard drive, if for example you want to move to a larger hard drive. During my next format/reinstall of Win98 I plan to install the basics of Win98, patch it, get my drivers all loaded, then burn an image of the C: drive to a CD-R. Then the next time I go through that process I only need to image the hard drive from the CD-R disc.

 

[stuman74]

Has anyone backed up a partition or hard drive using Norton Ghost via USB between two computers? I used the EXP brand USB cable which when running in Ghost was dead slow (~3 MB/minute!). The cable in Windows was much faster. Anyone use this method with ANY brand of USB cable?

 

[Soccerman]

stuman74,

you got a USB connection between computers running at 3MB a second? consider yourself lucky! USB runs at 12 megaBITS/second, which is about 1.5 megaBYTES/second.

I'm guessing some form of compression was used..

in any case, fast ethernet would probably be about 10X the speed..

I have a question too! can u burn the new image directly from that bootabl program?? I don't think so, but it would be nice! it almost seems like u can..

 

[vital]

if i use norton ghost to copy an image to a cdr disk, will it automatically make the disk bootable? if so, all i have to do is set my cdrom drive to primary boot, then pop in the imaged cdr, and it'll auto load the restore process? does norton ghost do all this or will i have to do it myself?

 

[stuman74]

soccerman,

3MB per SECOND I would be very happy with. But I am at 3MB per MINUTE!

I created a Ghost of my desktop drive to CDRW and it worked fine. However, I did set it to be a bootable CD, but that part didn;t work for me. I still had to use the boot floppy and then restore from the CD.

 

[setaanbomb]

VITAL: that is not the case. When you create an image of your hard drive you just have an image. You burn that image to a CD and create a Ghost Bootable Floppy. When you boot to the floppy ghost asks for a location of the image you want to load. Select your image and then load and your set.