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I have just bought Norton Ghost and want to copy my dying C drive to my F drive.My computor at the moment is VERY tempermental and shuts down when it feels like. I know its the C drive closeing down. Can Ghost do it for me?Do I have to have the machine fully running? please help me before I go mad.If the machine wont stay running long enough does that mean I am stuffed? AHHHHHHH
Hi PaulPaul
No problems. You can start Ghost from within Windows, just follow the instructions. Use medium compression as there is not much saving of space with stronger compression and stronger compression is much slower.
On medium compression you should finish up with about 50%-60% of the HD capacity, of your C drive. Only data is saved.
'Important'... Make sure you have a Ghost boot floppy disk. From memory you are given a choice of 4 different floppies, the first (top) one is the one that you want.
You really need this (in my opinion) because if you system ever goes really pear shaped and Windows will not load, you can always boot from the Ghost floppie to re-install your backed up system.
A Ghost floppie is also important because after you have made an image of your HD, you will have to boot to this floppie to test your "image" for integrity. I can not remember if this function can be done from within in Windows. Either way, get used to using the boot floppie and work from within DOS.
Just as a point, if your slave is connected to your PC via USB or Firewire, then you will have to choose the appropriate floppies boot disks (2) as, (again from memory) for such support it is a 2 floppie disk affair.
I hope this helps. Ghost is not the most user friendly program, but when you get used to the jargon, it works a dream.
It has pulled me out of the excrement several times.
Regards
Thinking hurts my head that's why I live in West Australia
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Don't know about your version of Ghost (which version is it?), yet most ghost versions will run from MSDOS floppies.
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Janset,
What do you mean by
On medium compression you should finish up with about 50%-60% of the HD capacity, of your C drive. Only data is saved.
I need a FULL EXACT copy of my C drive as 98 is on it
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on the version of ghost i have (PE which came with systemworks 2000) all i needed to do was copy the ghostpe.exe to a bootable floppy and boot from it, run ghostpe.exe and this will bring up a menu asking which drive you wish to copy, whether you wish to use compression, and if you want disk to disk or disk to image (and for restoration image to disk of course) it helps to have a dos mouse driver on the disk but isn`t necessary (use tabe to change selected item and space to select).
As far as i can remember you get the option of coypiung the whole disk or files only.If you ignore command line switches and use the menu its a lot simpletr to use!
I really ought to practice what i preach as my server died the other day with reports from scandisk that the c:\ drive needed low level formatting, it turned out the drive was ok but the power supply was on its last legs anywqy the last image of the c drive was 2 years old, pretty much useless really but as it hapened i didn`t need it, once the power supply was replaced scandisk gave the drive the all clear, I immediately imaged it to be on the safe side. Alway verify the image after its been done, best to find out its ok now rather than find out its corrupt later when you realy need it :). all my systems have at least 2 hard drives in them so i can do an image of the c: drive ontop the other, keep it there and also burn it to cd/dvd just in case the hard drive copy gets corrupted.
HTH
Woof
Always proof-read carefully to see if you any words out.
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Hello PaulPaul, if you have Version Ghost 9, your Ghost Installation CD is also your Boot CD as well.
Do not need a floopy, read your manual, browse your Installtion CD should be on there.I have not as yet re-loaded Ghost 9 only Copied my C: and D: drives.
Good thing about 9 is that it looks like windows explorer, and you can replace single programs, as well as the whole hard drive.
As far as i am aware, the whole of your C: is copied when you use Ghost 9, and it is best to use medium compression, it says it is recommended, but read your Help on the CD, or in the manual.
If you need further help, see here, join if you like. http://radified.com/index2.html click on Rad forums top right, then Registyer then you can post.
GEP
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Almost hate to mention this, if you purchase a new HDD full kit (not OEM), it will be provided with a program to transfer your system.
To avoid headaches get a drive less than 128 GB. One would remove the second drive replacing it with the new drive. Then image your C: drive to the new HDD. Then replace your old C: with the new one and reinstall your secondary drive. Some swapping can be avoided if you have an open IDE channel.
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If you bought Ghost 9 as a standalone program, it came with Ghost 2003 too.
I would run that and make a boot disk. Then try the backup from the boot disk.
If you have Ghost 9, it should boot from the CD and you could do your backup from there. Seems like running from a boot disk might lighten the load on the C: drive while you are saving your data.
Ghost 9 also has a disk copy program called Copy on drive to another. It should do the job as long as the C: drive does not fail. The big downside to this is that if a virus is causing problems with the C: drive, they will then become a part of the F: drive too.
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Hi PaulPaul
I have Ghost 2003.
When I say compression of data and you say all of your HD you want to copy, we are taking about the same thing I think but you are obviously unaware as to how Ghost works.
On your HD you have Data and empty space (actually it's not empty,it's data that is no longer used or has been written over).
When you do a Ghost back up, only the data is compressed and backed up *not_the_empty_ space* (or, as I said above, data NO LONGER usable [unless you have sophisticated recovery equipment]..having said that, now forget about it as it does not concern you in this instance]
Much has been mentioned above about the virtue's of working with Ghost from within windows, to each his own. I have explained why I use floppies. I will say no more.
I hope this answers your question.
Regards
Thinking hurts my head that's why I live in West Australia
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