I will soon have a new Toshiba Portege M200 tablet PC. Yippee! It
will not have any drives, internal or external, except it's hard drive
with WinXP Tablet OS. I now have Ghost 2002 software, a PC running
Win2K Pro with both FAT32 and NTFS partitions available, a cable
modem, and will soon have a router (D-Link 624?).

What are my options for cloning a bootable image from laptop to PC and
back again? I want not only to preserve the initial clean system, but
to make regular bootable backups.

I did some reading about Ghost on the Symantec site, and the
documentation made my head ache ;-| Is the sensible way to go to try
to use Ghost 2002 over the network (through the router)? Should I do
the crossover cable thing instead? Doesn't running Ghost on both
machines mean running Windoze on both meaning I can't make a bootable
image because the OS of the source disk is running? Should I buy
other software?

Thanks for your help,
Teffy

You are not going thru the router part but you are using the built-in
network hub/switch. The router is only used to translate the internal
network addresses (all your PCs) whenever there is a request to access the
Internet.


Also, Ghost 2003 or 2004 is much better than 2002.

Y.

"Teffy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I will soon have a new Toshiba Portege M200 tablet PC. Yippee! It
> will not have any drives, internal or external, except it's hard drive
> with WinXP Tablet OS. I now have Ghost 2002 software, a PC running
> Win2K Pro with both FAT32 and NTFS partitions available, a cable
> modem, and will soon have a router (D-Link 624?).
>
> What are my options for cloning a bootable image from laptop to PC and
> back again? I want not only to preserve the initial clean system, but
> to make regular bootable backups.
>
> I did some reading about Ghost on the Symantec site, and the
> documentation made my head ache ;-| Is the sensible way to go to try
> to use Ghost 2002 over the network (through the router)? Should I do
> the crossover cable thing instead? Doesn't running Ghost on both
> machines mean running Windoze on both meaning I can't make a bootable
> image because the OS of the source disk is running? Should I buy
> other software?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Teffy

Thanks for the reply! Ghost 2003-4 is better in what way?

Teffy

"Yves Leclerc" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> You are not going thru the router part but you are using the built-in
> network hub/switch. The router is only used to translate the internal
> network addresses (all your PCs) whenever there is a request to access the
> Internet.
>
>
> Also, Ghost 2003 or 2004 is much better than 2002.
>
> Y.
>
> "Teffy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I will soon have a new Toshiba Portege M200 tablet PC. Yippee! It
> > will not have any drives, internal or external, except it's hard drive
> > with WinXP Tablet OS. I now have Ghost 2002 software, a PC running
> > Win2K Pro with both FAT32 and NTFS partitions available, a cable
> > modem, and will soon have a router (D-Link 624?).
> >
> > What are my options for cloning a bootable image from laptop to PC and
> > back again? I want not only to preserve the initial clean system, but
> > to make regular bootable backups.
> >
> > I did some reading about Ghost on the Symantec site, and the
> > documentation made my head ache ;-| Is the sensible way to go to try
> > to use Ghost 2002 over the network (through the router)? Should I do
> > the crossover cable thing instead? Doesn't running Ghost on both
> > machines mean running Windoze on both meaning I can't make a bootable
> > image because the OS of the source disk is running? Should I buy
> > other software?
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Teffy