Now I thought this was always a fairly simple procedure, but I'm missing something fairly fundamental.
Situation : I have a small LAN, I have a machine (currently running WinME) that I want to Ghost and then upgrade to XPPro. Yes, I'm getting rid of ME I have Ghost (the DOSish PE one) that can create an image, but I can't make it create an image onto a mapped network drive. It will ONLY see other physical disks in the machine (there isn't any)
So do I use Ghost, or is there another product that will create a full image of my HDD so I can bring it back if needed.
In the Enterprise version of Ghost, you can run a "Ghost Server", and then use what they call "Ghost Cast" to ghost your hard drive to that server. I believe there is also a way to setup a peer to peer connection between 2 computers (both will have to boot up with the Ghost Boot disk setup for peer to peer networking). Check the Ghost Boot Disk wizard (if you have it) and see what the options are when making a boot disk.
Ghost definately can do it, when your making your boot disk for it you need to make sure you tell it to load a DOS TCP/IP driver etc and give it the UNC location to write the backup file too.
I don't have ghost installed anywhere atm but I recall the manual did have something about how to do this in it if you can find it.
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Posted - 05 January 2004 : 19:23:01
