giving up the (Nortons) Ghost

[pawz]

hello folks - not sure if this is quite the right forum, but hope you can help anyway.

I have spent most of my spare time for the past two days trying to get Nortons Ghost and then PC Relocator to transfer files from a Win 95 to a Win 98 machine. Both machines are networked,and I would have thought it would be a simple procedure via the LAN but the only method of transfer available to me is parallel.

I did have the offer of TCP on one version of the three Nortons I tried, but it couldn't find the source IP, which I pinged successfully from a third computer.
Fed up.
PC Relocator eventually might have done the job but there is a serial number discrepancy (I was warned about it by reading about other peoples experiences with the product, which is why I preferred to try Nortons first) and the only way you can go on is to say you are using it as a trial, in which case you have to buy the product within three days of the relocation else it will undo. As we had already bought it and have no intention of paying for it twice, I abandoned the procedure and uninstalled, and so am back to Ghost, which can't seem to connect.

I have only used Ghost once before, to transfer the whole disk contents from a master to a slave in the same machine, and it went like a breeze.

Is there any other utility I can try do you know? It can't be a simple file transfer like Laplink as there are registry settings we need to preserve, so I don't think PCSync would do. Ditto a plain copy from master to slave.
I think I have a coverdisk with Acronis on it, maybe that would do? Haven't really looked at that..

 

[Jump1ng]

Well if they are network and its just a matter of copying some files across why not just copy it over the network thru Explorer?

Or if there is a lot of information why not install the drive temporary in the other machine and copy the files from one drive to another.

As you say you only want to copy files not actually moving the whole os to another drive Ghost is not the right software to use this time.

Now I just re-read your last line

It can't be a simple file transfer like Laplink as there are registry settings we need to preserve

What is it exactly you want to transfer across? Is it just files (data) or is it programs you want to transfer from one machine to another?

 

[pawz]

the docs are no problem - I have already done that via the network. However there is an ancient Cad program on the Win 95 machine, and a lot of work associated with it, which we do not want to lose. We can't re-install but we still want to be able to access the drawings created through it. We also want to bring the Compuserve mail database over, again an ancient version, but in use right up to this week. It holds a huge address list and most of the e-mails sent and received since it was first installed in 1997. We want to keep that also. We do not want to bring the OS of course.

 

[Jump1ng]

I wouldn't recommend doing it but it might work.

Copy all the files across that this program uses then export the registry bits that is for this cad program. Usually it sits in HKLM\Software\yournamedapplicationsnamehere

Can't gurantee that it will work, I mangaged to get a new Sage install to work by doing this trick because the damn installation software was/is absolutley useless!

To view the cad drawings can't you use some viewing program like irfanview or something like that?

 

[pawz]

ok, I will try the registry export, thanks for that. Hadn't thought the cad files would be viewable except from within the program the files are associated with - its a thought, but I will have a cruise around the registry first and see what I can see to do there.

I have exported the registry as a whole often enough, but not tried to export specific sections before, can you tell me how to do that please - or do you mean should I simply add them in to the Win 98 registry at the appropriate places? I can do that.

Thank you for your help

 

[diogenes10]

McAfee had an uninstaller-I got as part of a package called firstaid 2000. It's a 5.1 version ( and I think this is an update of a MicroHelp/Cybermedia v4 uninstaller for Win95/NT ). I think there was another company that had a utility suite that also included an uninstaller.

I think you can hunt around in the ebay listings and get an idea of some of the old products available and then search for futher info about them.

One of the things uninstaller 5 was supposed to do was allow you to transport an application from one system to another. I used it for a couple of dos applications on a win98 machine, never tried it with windows apps so I dont know whether it worked for those or not. I would certainly make a ghost image of the win95 drive before I tried any experiments with something like that -- and I think it might be easier to try installing the win95 cad and compuserve programs on win98 than to use an uninstaller and package them for a move.

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It's 10 O'Clock ( somewhere! ).
Are your registry and data backed up?

 

[Jump1ng]

Well you can highlight a section of the registry and save it to a file then you can import it on the other machine thus you will get the registry settings for this program.

Just right click on the section you want to save then chose export and it you can now say just current branch and save it.

Its really really dirty so please make sure that you backup your registry before importing any registry settings from teh other machine as it can potentially seriously mess up your registry.

 

[diogenes10]

following jumpings idea about viewers

Here is a link about compuserve stuff
Maybe there is something here that would help you figure an alternative way to be able to read the old emails?

http://www.keithsketchley.com/csmailac.txt

And if you posted the name of the cad program, someone might be able to suggest a viewer for you.

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It's 10 O'Clock ( somewhere! ).
Are your registry and data backed up?

 

[pawz]

well thank you all of you for your kind help and wisdom, and I will certainly go looking at that compuserve thread Diogenes - Pete will be tickled pink if we can get that working.

As for the CAD program, I have manually copied the keys,( and thanks for the idea Jumps) binary and strings over and placed them all carefully in their proper places, plus migrated a .dll and a gdi font (whatever that is) from one system folder to the other, and whaddyaknow - it appears to be playing ball. I have the CAD screen up and ready to go. It remains to be seen if it can do all that it is supposed to and display our drawings or allow them to be modified - I shall leave that to himself, but I am feeling quite optimistic. Many thankyou's all round. Off to take the mutts out now

one cheered-up Gracie signing off

 

[38dean]

Looking for some help with my computer. Receiving many exception, protection faults and fatal exceptions on my computer. Not sure how to fix these errors? A few examples of the errors I am receiving are as follows.


Kernel32 caused a general protection fault in module USER.EXE at 0003:00003987

CFGWIZ caused an exception C0000006H in module Kernel32.DLL at 0177:bff86e9c

A fatal exception OE has occurred at 015f:bff9dba7

Last one was WCMDMGR caused an invalid page fault in module Kernel32.DLL at 015f:bff8836d

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Dean

 

[pawz]

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist_w.htm

this link tells you a bit about the WildTangent updater you have on your system, which seems to be causing a problem, scroll down the list a bit to find its mention.

 

[pawz]

ps 38dean, you would do better to start a new thread and also in the virus and spyware forum than in here perhaps

 

[Jump1ng]

Glad it worked out mate!

I have a mate that usually backs up games and using their reg values to reinstall it on a fresh system so it usually works, but you could totally kill your registry if you are unlucky.

But when it works its great.

 

[pawz]

thanks Jumps