Re: Ghosting a HD u mean restore a 6gig ghost image onto a difefrent sized drive yeah? u can do it yeah. wud just leave the rest of the space unallocated. u can then create another partition or resize using partition magic or summit. or.......maybe u can extend the free space when u restore the image........jus give it a whirl...
Ok on this topic.. I want to back up my laptop...properly. Whats the best way to do it? Ghost? Any other good backup programs?
phah! Ghost 7.4 is the best - fits on a bootable floppy and is excellent - fuck all this 'create a partition' shite - when u come to install the image you've created, it automatically adjusts the size of the image to fit the drive - i can even create more partitions at this point. We use it all the time at uni for the labs and staff machines.... much easier with a few images burnt onto bootable CDs/DVDs than having to rebuild machines all the time from scratch.... EDIT : oh, doesn't give a monkeys about the file system either (NTFS, FAT32, etc)
what that man said MOS > how do u go about putting images onto CD, im currently running out of spce on our image server and want to put some images onto CD to clear some space, and how do i make it a bootable CD?
Nero allows you to create a bootable CD - i use a win98 boot disk, you just point nero at it at the correct moment and u can use it's file system. OR Nero has a built in boot disk, uses DR-DOS which still works - but using a pre-made bootdisk u can modify the autoexec.bat to run programs (i.e. get it to boot THEN load ghost straight away) As for splitting images onto CD - i stick a slave HD in, boot to floppy, run Ghost with the following extra commands : GHOST -split=650 -autoname the split command splits the image into files of, in this case, 650MB and the autoname tag renames them i.e. imagexp.gho, imagexp.001, imagexp.002, etc, etc. Make sure it dumps it to the slave drive, which has to be a FAT32 drive. Hey presto - 'X' amount of 650MG images to burn onto CD - just make the first 1 bootable. EDIT : just re-read your post - it's got to be done at time of the image. Currently, DVD writers aren't supported in the DOS version of Ghost i use....
