Hey FP,
Your message made me think a little further.
The boot disk used must have support for standard IDE ATAPI drives to be able to burn images to CD/DVD. The primary force of Ghost is not any longer (since v5.0, I
believe) making an image to a HDD, but instead making images to CD-R/DVD-R, including disk spanning, boot CD and all that jazz.
If anyone has a mirror, I can provide a working boot floppy together with instructions how to burn this onto a bootable CD that the computer sees as an A:\ or C:\ drive.
Jim E...?
The floppy was originally downloaded from bootdisk.com some years ago, so knock
yourself out.
Having everything one needs on a bootdisk, including complete O/S, is not too
bad. I'm writing this from such a disk ;)
//soren
FORC5 wrote:
rarely use ghost from a fdd but on occasion have to, only problems ever had wad
usually the disk.drives fault.
I have boot cd's made with ghost and zap installed.
Only tried once but ghost would not clone a vista install.
fp
At 06:51 PM 9/4/2009, Soren Poked the stick with:
If the system has no hw problems, and everything else is working OK, here's
what I see during several days of the week:
Ghost 10 allows back up from both Win and *nix, if "copy sector-by-sector" is
selected. Creation of a boot sector on the first CD/DVD is also supported, and it works,
too.
Here's the culprit most people experience: When running Ghost from a floppy or
from HDD it doesn't work as advertized. Nope, it doesn't, and it never has.
But it surely does, if one runs it directly from the CD-ROM. From System Works
Pro CD, e.g. cd /support/ghost/ghost.exe
Used this way, Ghost still kicks Acronis deeply in their semi-Greek balls ;)
BTW, do NEVER trust a program that supports BartPE or alike for corporate use.
"...Provides imaging with removes (ie, clone but don't copy *.tmp' or
whatever)..." someone wrote.
Honestly, either it is an image, or it's not. Further, a clone is what the word
"clone" means: a clone, a complete copy.
If a clone is not an excact image, it is not a clone, but instead a bunch of
mediated marketing BS.
Personally, I'd never buy any software from a seller that cannot distinguish between
"clone" and "sort of clone", but that's probably only me ;)
About Ghost I want to say one thing: RTFM (Read The Fine Manual).
/soren
