Using Norton Ghost???

[DisinfectedDuck]

I just can't figure it out...
I know u need to create the boot disk but what's next? I wanna burn an image (maybe i'll need 2 cd's?)

 

[lozina]

you reboot with the boot disk then it loads its utility. It dosent have an environment under windows

 

[Gunbuster]

make the bootdisk with cdrom drivers, then boot from it

 

[Dunbar]

Boot to the Ghost GUI select "image to disk" and your CDROM drive. You cannot save the image on the same drive Windows is on. It will prompt you to select the level of compression (more compression takes longer.) It's been a while since I used it but basically as long as you know not to save it the same disk it will work, took me a while to figure that out. If you need another CD after it starts burning it will prompt you (with high compression I fit about 1.5G on one CD.)

 

[DisinfectedDuck]

<< Boot to the Ghost GUI select "image to disk" and your CDROM drive. >>



You mean CDRW??

 

[Dunbar]

Yes, your burner drive letter.

 

[BIGGDOG]

You know I have never been successful with the boot disk with CD Rom drivers. I had to make my own.
I used Micron's boot disk and put the ghost folder on my floppy.

You can get the Micron boot disk from Micron online you have to look for files....

 

[Bglad]

You are making this too hard. Just make a boot floppy then add the ghost .exe to the boot disk. I think it is ghostpe.exe, but don't quote me.

Boot, start ghost and follow the prompts.

 

[TrevorK]

www.bootdisk.com is a great place to find boot disks for those who don't like to make their own.

As for ghost, just boot using the disk, the toss in the Ghost disk and go hard. Remember to write down the license number because it will ask for it later (At least my copy does).



Trevor

 

[Whitedog]

If you want to burn your hard drive directly to CD's. Ghost can do this, and even span the image on multiple disks. You need to use the bootdisk utility in Ghost (you have to install it in Windows to run it) to make the correct bootdisks that will load CD drivers and burn utilities on bootup.
It isn't the best way, but it works.

The best way, is to image your hard drive to another Hard drive (Disk to Image) (NOT DISK TO DISK!). The hard drive you're to write the image to must be FATx. It can't be NTFS.

If the image ends up being larger than 2048MB it will span.

There are also switches to tell ghost to span the ghost file to not larger than xxxMB size if you want. Even if you are cloning it to disk. This way you can store your images on a CD.

There are a TON of tricks using Ghost. If you're too lazy to read the manual, than you'll just have to learn from experience.

 

[Whitedog]