Image (Ghost)

[Jollynice]

Ho do I make an image (for instance with Norton Ghost) of a BCM 200/400 harddrive?

 

[gberger]

You cannot ghost the bcm drive by itself. You need the BIT image tool and you need the image cd's of the bcm version you want to re-image. As well you'll need to contact Nortel to obtain the BIT password to be able to use it.Ask your vendor, he should do this for you.

 

[acewarlock]

That's not true, I have been making Ghost images of BCM hard drive for 2 years and I have never had a problem. Just follow the instructions on ghost.

 

[3Sixty]

I use Ghost 2003 in dos interactive mode with the following command.

"ghost -clone,MODE=load,SRC=R:\37GA_BIT.GHO,DST=1,SZEE -ntchkdsk -sure –auto

replace R:\37GA_BIT.GHO with the path to your ghost-image"

Marshall

http://www.nortelsupport.net

 

[gberger]

Acewarlock, i think the guy wants to duplicate his existing bcm hard drive and not really do a new image of uninitialised bcm 3.7, maybe i missed that.

 

[acewarlock]

That's what I do, I use an exisiting BCM hard drive to create a Master drive that I use to image all my new systems so I don't have to program the samething every time I install a new BCM.

 

[Jollynice]

Thanks for the answers guys. Yes I want to preserve all my programming and possibly use that for subsequent systems. So if I'm connected to the BCM I just start Symantec ghost on my PC and follow the instructions, right?

Secondly is there any way of doing something similar with a BCM50?

 

[acewarlock]

I don't think you can make an image that way, what I do is remove the hard drive from the BCM and run ghost on a PC with the HD connected and save it as an image. When I need to make a copy I hook a blank HD to the computer and run Ghost to make an image on the new HD and then I install it on a new BCM.