Help with Norton Ghost 2002-Cloning Disk to Disk

[2p]

I purchased Norton Ghost 2002 several years ago and now I would like to know how to use it.
I want to clone my computer's hard drive with Windows 98SE into a brand new Western Digital 40GB disk, just in case my old hard drive goes bad.
1. Do I have to format the new hard drive(WD 40GB) before I start with the cloning procedure?
2. Upon starting the computer I need to have the created boot diskette in the floppy drive, and do I need to have the Norton Ghost 2002 CD in the CD-ROM also?
3. I am thinking of making the WD 40GB hard drive as a Slave? Is it this the correct configuration?

Thank you in advance for your help.
Ed

 

[ski]

Check this link for instructions:

http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_2.htm

 

[2p]

I have already checked the ghost.radified.com website, it does not answer my specific questions.
Thank you.

 

[ski]

Any HD has to be both partitioned and formatted before it can be used.

If inserting the Ghost CD is not mentioned in that link, then you do not have to use it.

You can install the imaged HD as Slave.

 

[2p]

I thought that Norton Ghost 2002 would automatically partition and format the new destination disk during this procedure?
Does Ghost 2002 need to be installed on the source hard drive prior to beging with the cloning or ghosting?

Thanks,
ED

 

[2p]

I need feedback from someone who has hands on Cloning a disk with Norton Ghost 2002.
I have visited both ghost.radified.com and Symantec website and I am still looking for the answer to my questions.
I rather hear from someone who has used Ghost 2002 successfully and recently.

Ed

 

[ANFPS26]

I use ghost all the time to back up my entire C drive and store the image on my D drive. I have Norton Ghost (ghostpe.exe) installed on a floppy and I run it from the floppy. It's pretty much self explanatory. I boot to a C prompt, install the floppy and change directory to the A drive and type ghostpe.exe. That's the way I do it. I've also cloned disks the same way and I've always formatted the disks first with a boot floppy. I don't know if you can do it with Ghost, I've never tried.

Jim

 

[wolluf]

2p

Couple of things:-

Ghost 2002 comes with help and manuals. If you're an IT professional you should be able to work out how to use it.

You don't actually need Ghost to achieve your goal. WD have their own tool (

http://support.wdc.com/download/downloadxml.asp#23)

to allow you to clone old drive to new.

(and in fact with 98, you can do it 'manually' quite easily. Just create new partition, format /s (to make it bootable) and then just copy all the files (except pagefile) from one disk to the other (in explorer - using any standard copy method) - agree any 'overwrite existing' prompt).

 

[2p]

Ok Jim, since my copy of Ghost 2002 is picking up dust for lack of use I have decided to use Norton Ghost 2002.
The first thing I have to do is to partition and format the new hard drive. Am I right?
I guess I just disregard the D drive on the same hard drive, part of your instructions, because I want to clone my computer unto another hard disk,(New 40GB HD).
Before I forget, Do I intall Ghost 2002 on the source drive or do I install Ghost 2002 on the destination drive?
Thank you very much for your help.
ED

 

[ANFPS26]

No, I didn't mean the D drive on the same hard drive. I have two seperate hard drives. I put an image of the C drive in a folder on my D drive as a back up. I don't install Ghost on any hard drive, I run it from the floppy. Take your new drive and install it as your slave drive and fdisk and format it. Boot to a command prompt and put your floppy in the A drive and cd to the A drive. Run ghostpe.exe and follow the on screen instructions and copy the C drive to the D drive if you want the D drive to look like the C drive. If you just want to back up the C drive, then make a folder on the D drive and copy a compressed image of the C drive to the folder on the D drive. It's a very simple program to use.

Jim

 

[2p]

Ok, Jim now understand the concept much better, except where you said" Put your floppy in the A drive and CD to the A drive: What do you mean "CD to the A drive" What CD are you refering to and what do you mean by A drive in that sentence? Did you mean CD-ROM?
Now, I am ready to began with this procedure. I am going to partition my new hard drive into two sections. One section 20GB and the other section 20GB. The first half I am going to place the image of my current hard drive or my computer.
The second half I am going to practice a BACK UP and make a folder in said partition and copy a compressed image of the C drive unto the folder I just created. A Compressed image of C drive is created by Ghostpe.exe/MS-DOS floppy disk, I am right to assume this? Or do I have to do an extraordinary procedure to copy a compressed image?
Thank you for answering my questions in detail because this is the first time I am using the Ghost 2002 software.
ED

 

[ANFPS26]

cd" stands for change directory. Actually, all you have to type at the command prompt is A: and then ghostpe.exe

I'm sure there are other ways to do this, this is just the way I learned to do it. I assume you have Ghost on a CD-ROM? You would have to copy ghostpe.exe from the CD-ROM to a floppy first. You probably could boot with a Win98 boot disk with CD-ROM support and run the program straight from the CD and not use a floppy.

Jim

 

[ANFPS26]

You have to have your product key (serial number) for Ghost and enter that when you copy from an image back to the disk.

Jim

 

[2p]

Ok, I am going to clone my c drive with the floppy that contains ghostpe.exe.
I am going to follow your directions and run Ghost from the floppy because that's what you have been telling me and because that is the way I understand it now.
Once I have copied the C drive image unto the new hard drive, Do I have restore the C drive image back to the C drive? What I mean is that do I have to reinstall the C drive image back to C drive, or does the C drive image gets copied to the new drive and remains with the original image intact on the C drive.
Thank you again,
Ed

 

[ANFPS26]

The C drive will be unchanged, but if you have to re-install your image to the C drive for whatever reason , Ghost asks for the product key at that time.

Jim

 

[2p]

I hope I do not have to re-install the image to the C drive because it sounds like trouble since you have indicated "The C drive will be unchanged"
I really appreciated your great help.
Good luck,
Ed