Ghost 8 and no diskette drive to clone a 40GB to a 80GB drive?

[barman]

I have a 40GB drive in my Thinkpad T42 laptop running Win XP
Professional, and want to upgrade to a new 80GB drive. I believe that I
can use Ghost, and have version 8. The documentation is not so obvious,
but I believe what I need to do is boot with the Ghost CD and create a
Ghost bootable diskette (but I have no diskette drive on my machine and
don't want to buy a USB diskette drive if I don't have to), then clone
from the old to the new drive. I do have a CDRW drive - any advise?
Thanks!

Dilip

 

[Rod Speed]

I have a 40GB drive in my Thinkpad T42 laptop running Win XP
Professional, and want to upgrade to a new 80GB drive. I believe that
I can use Ghost, and have version 8. The documentation is not so
obvious, but I believe what I need to do is boot with the Ghost CD
and create a Ghost bootable diskette (but I have no diskette drive on
my machine and don't want to buy a USB diskette drive if I don't have
to), then clone from the old to the new drive. I do have a CDRW drive
- any advise? Thanks!

You can just write an image file to the CDRW drive and restore that to
the 80G drive after you have replaced the 40G drive with the 80G drive.

You cant clone from the old to the new drive unless both can
be in the T42 at once. If they can, you can just create an image
to the CDRW, and abort that once its written the first CDRW. You can
boot that CDRW and then clone from the 40G drive to the 80G drive.

You can also put both drives in a desktop system using an adapter
for each drive and clone using Ghost running from the desktop.

 

[Michael Kimmer]

I have a 40GB drive in my Thinkpad T42 laptop running Win XP
Professional, and want to upgrade to a new 80GB drive. I believe that I
can use Ghost, and have version 8. The documentation is not so obvious,
but I believe what I need to do is boot with the Ghost CD and create a
Ghost bootable diskette (but I have no diskette drive on my machine and
don't want to buy a USB diskette drive if I don't have to), then clone
from the old to the new drive. I do have a CDRW drive - any advise?
Thanks!

Dilip

I'm not sure but I thought the Symantec Ghost 8.0 CD itself is bootable
(displaying a boot menu)?

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