Norton Ghost 9.0 Imaging

[rebelfan]

Ok, I have a problem I can't figure out how to create an image in Norton Ghost 9.0, I have tried to backup the drive but it did not work it also will not let me span it over several discs so I don't really know what to do. I am trying to image 2 other computers identiacally as the one I have Ghost on. I'm now not sure how I am going to get the image on the other computers and we really don't have a file server if that matters as far as deploying the image.

Any help is GREATLY APPRECIATED.

 

[SjrH]

If you cannot image to network, then get yourself a usb hard disk. Boot from floppy or cdrom with drivers for your usb drive (so the OS will see it), then run ghost and choose local disk to image. Put the image on the usb drive. Now you can simply boot the target system in the same manner, and write your image to the hard disk.
If you don't need to worry about hdd partitions, then always choose disk when imaging, this way you don't need to worry about hdd partitioning on the target system as ghost will do it for you.
BTW, what discs are you trying to span the image to?

 

[rebelfan]

Yea I have an IPOD that I'm going to try to put the image there what about the drivers for USB what do I need to do? I am going to try to use the wizard for the floppy disc.

 

[rebelfan]

I got the boot disc created with USB support but it isent seeing my drive

 

[rebelfan]

Now I am trying to use a TCP/IP connection but get the following error on the master computer:

Could not establish connection with Ghost TCP/IP Slave (1633)

What do I need to do?

 

[Xpdite]

I personally have not been able to come up with a reliable USB boot disk as of yet. I did get one to work but the speed is not very good. I was only getting 20 megs a minute and if your images are as large as ours you won't want to be doing that very often. I don't no if there is such a beast as a USB2 boot disk.

 

[Rick998]

rebelfan,

If you only have 2 other PC's to clone then I suggest you just take the hard disk out of the PC that's already set up (i.e. the source), disconnect the CDROM drive on the other PC's and temporarily attach the source hard disk instead. Use a DOS boot floppy to boot and run Ghost then do a disk-to-disk operation.

Notes:

1) On the PC's to be cloned, if the CDROM drive is on the same IDE channel as the destination hard disk then you may need to change the temporarily-attached source hard disk from 'Master' to 'Slave' using its jumpers (and remember to change the jumpers back before replacing the hard disk in the source PC). You don't need to do this if the CDROM drive you disconnect is on the other (secondary) IDE channel.

2) The temporarily-attached source hard disk will be drive 2 so, in Ghost, you will be cloning disk 2 to disk 1. It's easy to get this the wrong way round so take care!

3) If the source drive is NTFS then you won't see it in DOS so won't be able to run Ghost from it. If this is the case then copy the Ghost executable to floppy.

Hope this helps...