Boot Camp & Norton Ghost Question Win XP Pro

[Ara1701]

Hello All

I have installed Windows XP on Intel Mac Mini installation was fine, Boot Camp is a great little invention
i want to use Norton Ghost 9.0 image that was created on a Dell PC so I would have all of the application from that image on my Mac Mini Windows XP

i don't think there is a Migration Assistant for Windows XP

all i really want to do is image Applications only same Migration Assistant for OS 10.4
what is the best way of doing this



thank you

 

[cjcoyle]

I don't believe that's possible. What you could try would be to drop the image over the xp install you just did and then use the XP CD's auto recovery tool to "fix" that image so the system boots.

-Chris

 

[Ara1701]

i have an image in a CD i booted off the CD and tried to image it, it did not see the WinXP partition
i'm searching forums nothing coming up yet

 

[cjcoyle]

Does it matter if it sees the partition? Do you have another OS installed on the drive? As long as Ghost sees the drive you should be able to image it. Also, you have an image ON a CD??? I've never seen an image under 1 GB.

-Chris

 

[Ara1701]

yes i meant ON A CD its 12 CD-ROM's one image

 

[Ara1701]

sorry for not being clear before

one partition is OS X the other is Windows XP i'm trying to image WinXP partition, but ghost sees it as one partition 70GB

 

[cjcoyle]

hmmmm, yes .... what if you formated the second partition fat32 (with fdisk from a bootable floppy), can Ghost make the distinction? Otherwise, what if you change the active partition? Does that change which partition it sees? (you can tell by what size it says it is). Let me know, lets tackle this little beast!

-Chris

 

[Ara1701]

Chris

i did change partition to FAT32 Ghost still sees it as a single partition. Would a different version of ghost help Ghost 10 maybe?
i will try changing active partition

 

[cjcoyle]

Actually Ghost probably can see the partition, it's the msdos or pcdos shell that can't see it. I've recently done something similar and I needed to execute Ghost via command line. The following is the command/arguments that I used:
ghost -clone,mode=restore,src=1:2,dst=1:1 -sure

This tells Ghost to restore partition 1 on disk 1 from partition 2 on disk 1. You'd have to make src=D:\image.gho (or whatever you're CDrom drive letter is. If you don't already, you'll have to add a generic dos based cdrom driver to the media you're booting from. I'm having a hard time finding a guide to the command line switches for you, you could try starting a new thread and asking someone for some help there. Let me know how you're doing ..

-Chris

 

[Ara1701]

thanks Chris
i will try it this week

 

[linney]

Is something along the lines of these articles occurring?


Basic Storage Versus Dynamic Storage in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314343/en-us?FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

Does the hard disk have a drive overlay or a disk management program? If your computer uses drive overlay software. IIf you are not sure whether you have drive overlay software installed, view the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article or contact the software manufacturer.

315679 - Problems with Drive Overlay Programs in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315679&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

186057 How to Tell If Drive Overlay Program Is Installed in Windows

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;186057&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

Installing XP on Dynamic disk
thread779-441060

"Dynamic Drive Overlay" Software

http://langa.com/newsletters/2005/2005-08-25.htm

 

[Ara1701]

thanks guys

i think i found something that will work for me

CopyCatX 4.0 software
or Ghost for Linux

will post details soon