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Has anyone managed to successfully make an image of Win2k using Norton Ghost 6.03 and reloaded your OS with it. I've made several different CDs of Ghost with Win98, but I am having some difficulty doing it with Win2k. Any help would be appreciated.
Name: Slappy Date: June 1, 2000 at 10:07:47 Pacific
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Ghost 5 worked for me (20 PCs reloaded)
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Response Number 2
Name: Mr. B. Date: June 1, 2000 at 11:39:58 Pacific
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I'm running Ghost 6.0; making an image of my Win2K partition (FAT32) works fine. I haven't had the need to restore it (yet)... :)
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Response Number 3
Name: Quinn Date: June 1, 2000 at 20:07:36 Pacific
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Here is the problem we ran into, you have to make sure the last time you login it is to a workgroup and not a domain. Ghost gets really quirky if you don't do that.
Thanks for the replys guys, but it didn't really help. I doubt very much "Slappy" reloaded 20pcs running Win2k with version 5.0. Mr. B, if you haven't had to reload yet, you might be surprised to find that 6.0 won't work on Win2k without it being version 6.03. Thanks anyway.
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Response Number 5
Name: thedude Date: June 18, 2000 at 15:39:06 Pacific
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what's so special about win2k hdd sectors that ghost can't handle it? are we talking about sids problems here, or actual sector errors?
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Response Number 6
Name: Damon Date: September 1, 2000 at 21:57:20 Pacific
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The problem I have, when I try to restore Win 2k on a different machine, with a different hard drive size, I get stopped at the blue screen. The key is to make sure your hard drives are the same size, then Win 2k should come up fine.
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Response Number 7
Name: BH Date: September 15, 2000 at 06:48:01 Pacific
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I was curious about using ghost on win2k but first I decided to try just booting a 2nd machine from a win2k hard drive used on a 1st machine. This procedure works with win98 but I got stopped at the blue screen with win2k. Of course when I do it with win98 it finds all the hardware differences between the 2 machines...but handles them.
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Response Number 8
Name: ShadowHawk Date: February 15, 2001 at 05:25:10 Pacific
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I've tried to use ghost 2001 on my 2k pro machine. Image copied fine and restored gave no errors, but I got the blue screen also. It was the same computer I got the image from, so the hdd is the same size. Bad news, A lot of my data is on that image that is important. All my partitioning software sees the new hdd as having no partition.
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Response Number 9
Name: Dave Date: June 14, 2001 at 05:29:19 Pacific
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Try this, We use ghost exclusively and have no problems with windows 2000 desktops and servers. What you must do is after you create the disk with ghost. Create a bootable floppy, then reboot the pc. run ghost from the floppy with the following command. a:>ghost -ntn -ntil. you then can add any other varibale after that. after the image is created, you can push it down to a pc, but before so, you need to get a copy of GHOSTWALKER. after the image has been successfully dumped, reboot with a bootable floopy with GHOSTWALKER on it. run ghost walker. GHOSTWALKER will allow you to change the SID on windows2000. without this, windows will have a conflict with another pc on the network with the same SID. Give it a try.
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