Ghosting

[Guest_imported]

I need to know how to ghost an image of a HDD with Windows 98 OS on it, onto ONE CD?

 

[esherm22]

It sounds to me like you know how to use ghost, so I won't go into any depth. All you need to do is create the ghost image and burn it to cd. So to get it on one cd I would first of all use maximum compression and if it still won't fit you need to uninstall some programs. After you remove some things I would run a defrag also. Win98 alone will not come close to using a whole cd so there is other programs using space.

 

[vcs50]

I had this problem when trying to burn some ghost image cds for our Compaq Armada laptops. I was over by less than 100MB. My solution was to delete c:\hibernate.dat from the HD before ghosting it, this allowed the image to fit on a CD. The file is recreated on the cloned machine when Windows starts up.

 

[n0spin79]

The first question is, how are you setting maximum compression?

If you are selecting it within the GUI interface, you are not really getting the max. Do it from a command line, and you can use compression=9 I believe. (enter GHOST /? to get the parameters..)

The next question is, why not use the span option to span across CDs?

Again this is easiest to setup with a batch (for the command parameters), and you may want to review the manual to setup different sized files for the spanned image...(ie, you can make the first one a little smaller to accommodate making a bootable CD, etc.)

Hope this helps.