GHOST steps for Win NT 4

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Here is my situation:

I have a Win NT server with 2 SCSI Drives, both drives have 4 partitions. On one of the drives the previous SA partitioned C as a 2G drive.

I would like to GHOST the C partition, and then restore it to a new 6G SCSI drive, and boot the Server on this drive.

Can I ghost and restore just a partition?
How can I boot the Server to the new drive?

Any tips and hints would be appreciated.

 

[browolf]

in the scsi bios i think you can change which drive is the boot drive. write down the settings first.

You *can* ghost/restore just partitions.

For ghost to work with scsi drives you need to make sure a dos scsi driver is loaded b4 you run ghost.


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Does it matter what version of Ghost I use? Ghost 2003? Ghost 7.5 Corp?

 

[browolf]

i think some personal versions of ghost dont like restoring to/from a network drive.

i'd use 7.5 corp. i dont know much about 2003.

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[comtec17]

I believe from previous experience, you can only Ghost a partition back to a same size partition. I might be wrong but the last time I did it (Version 6.03) I was able to ghost my 3GB partition to a 9GB disk and it copied the same partition size and would not let me increase the size of my C:

 

[browolf]

that's right.
Tools such as partition magic will let you alter the partition size afterwards.

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[Andree]

Maybe I'm wrong, but you can't use partition magic on a server. You have to use server magic. I'm not even really sure you can use ghost on a server. Try powerquest V2I protector. It images partions and it's made especially for servers.

 

[browolf]

ah ha this thread's been going so long i forgot it was a server we're talking about.

you can ghost servers tho.


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