How do I simulate a CD?

[geezer]

I remember that I could set up everything that I intended to write
onto a CD disk in a directory, say, c:\a - which I could test before
wasting a disk. You know - like autorun.inf, setup.html, etc.

I think it involved the DOS command 'mount' to assign an unused drive
letter to C:\a, but I may be wrong since XP doesn't seem to like it.
I think I did it under W95 or early W98's.

Can someone tell me how to do it under XP PRO?

Thanks

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I remember that I could set up everything that I intended to write
onto a CD disk in a directory, say, c:\a - which I could test before
wasting a disk. You know - like autorun.inf, setup.html, etc.

I think it involved the DOS command 'mount' to assign an unused drive
letter to C:\a, but I may be wrong since XP doesn't seem to like it.
I think I did it under W95 or early W98's.

Can someone tell me how to do it under XP PRO?

SUBST?

 

[Guest]

Hello geezer

Is this the command want to use?
Subst X: c:\MyFolderToMount

Kind Regards
Piet Carpentier

 

[geezer]

SUBST?

That's it! Thanks. It even works!

G

 

[geezer]

SUBST?

That's it! Thanks. It even works!

Same thanks to you Piet Carpentier

G

 

[geezer]

That's it! Thanks. It even works!

Same thanks to you Piet Carpentier

G

It only seems to do half the job - I am still missing something.
I can assign an unused drive letter to a HD sub-directory just fine.
Of course - when I double click on it, using 'My Computer', I get a
window of all the sub-directory's content. That's not what I want.

I want to use the assigned drive letter to simulate CD disk
'autoplay'. In that way I know before I burn the sub-directory
contents to a CD disk, if it works or not.

There was a way that I can't recall that I could do this. I thought
it was by choosing 'open' on the assigned drive letter in My Computer,
but alas it doesn't work.

Anyone help me here?

Thanks

Geezer

 

[GTS]

Why not use a CDRW for testing?

 

[geezer]

Why not use a CDRW for testing?

May be the only way I guess. It's just that I know I was able to do
what I described. It was just a long time ago, and I have forgotten
how.

Thanks anyway

Geezer

 

[gls858]

May be the only way I guess. It's just that I know I was able to do
what I described. It was just a long time ago, and I have forgotten
how.

Thanks anyway

Geezer

Would a virtual CD work? Here's a link to a free utility:

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/xpvirtualcd.html

 

[geezer]

Would a virtual CD work? Here's a link to a free utility:

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/xpvirtualcd.html

I tried it. It seems to want a disk image file (ala .ISO) whereas I
have data files & executables.

Thanks anyway.

Geezer

 

[superman]

I am a novice, testing how to do backups and restores under WXP PRO.
I am trying GHOST as a test vehicle. I must be missing something.

I made a backup 'image' which seemed to work fine. I restored a
second HD from that 'GHOST' image, which also seemed to work okay.
The content looks fine.

However, when I then made the second HD the boot drive (c drive) by
itself, the boot-up says the HD is not 'bootable'. Can I make the new
HD bootable? How?

The file system is NTFS.

Thanks

 

[Anna]

I am a novice, testing how to do backups and restores under WXP PRO.
I am trying GHOST as a test vehicle. I must be missing something.

I made a backup 'image' which seemed to work fine. I restored a
second HD from that 'GHOST' image, which also seemed to work okay.
The content looks fine.

However, when I then made the second HD the boot drive (c drive) by
itself, the boot-up says the HD is not 'bootable'. Can I make the new
HD bootable? How?

The file system is NTFS.

Thanks

superman:
Would you be interested in the methodology involved in creating *direct*
disk-to-disk clones using Ghost 2003? I assume from your post that you're
making a disk image on some sort of removable media and then attempting to
restore the image to a HD. I rarely, if ever, use that technique, rather
preferring to create *direct* disk-to-disk clones.

You didn't indicate what version of Ghost you're using. I work with Ghost
2003 using a bootable Ghost floppy disk (or bootable CD). The bootable
floppy is easily created in the Ghost program and can be used to create a
bootable CD using one of the CD-burning programs should you prefer to use
the bootable CD instead of a bootable floppy disk. I find the simplicity &
effectiveness of this technique re using Ghost is more to my liking than
using the Windows GUI. I haven't been particularly thrilled with the Ghost 9
version which superseded the 2003 version and haven't yet worked with the
Ghost 10 version that was recently released.

If you purchased the retail boxed version of Ghost 9 (you did not state what
version you're using - you should always do so when seeking help) it came
with Ghost 2003.

So if you're interested in learning how to use Ghost 2003 to *directly*
clone the contents of one HD to another HD, please so indicate and we'll try
to help you.
Anna

 

[superman]

superman:
Would you be interested in the methodology involved in creating *direct*
disk-to-disk clones using Ghost 2003? I assume from your post that you're
making a disk image on some sort of removable media and then attempting to
restore the image to a HD. I rarely, if ever, use that technique, rather
preferring to create *direct* disk-to-disk clones.

You didn't indicate what version of Ghost you're using. I work with Ghost
2003 using a bootable Ghost floppy disk (or bootable CD). The bootable
floppy is easily created in the Ghost program and can be used to create a
bootable CD using one of the CD-burning programs should you prefer to use
the bootable CD instead of a bootable floppy disk. I find the simplicity &
effectiveness of this technique re using Ghost is more to my liking than
using the Windows GUI. I haven't been particularly thrilled with the Ghost 9
version which superseded the 2003 version and haven't yet worked with the
Ghost 10 version that was recently released.

If you purchased the retail boxed version of Ghost 9 (you did not state what
version you're using - you should always do so when seeking help) it came
with Ghost 2003.

So if you're interested in learning how to use Ghost 2003 to *directly*
clone the contents of one HD to another HD, please so indicate and we'll try
to help you.
Anna

2003

I put the image, small though it is - since I am just testing, on a
second, smaller HD.

I chose image over clone because the target drive is smaller than the
source drive.

Thanks

 

[Harry]

superman wrote...

I put the image, small though it is - since I am just testing, on a
second, smaller HD.

I chose image over clone because the target drive is smaller than the
source drive.

Since you are testing, it won't hurt for you to try the following.

1. google the web for a utility which can backup/restore the MBR
(Master Boot Record) of a HDD.
2. backup the MBR from HDD1 to a file
3. restore the MBR from step 2 to HDD2

 

[Anna]

I put the image, small though it is - since I am just testing, on a
second, smaller HD.

I chose image over clone because the target drive is smaller than the
source drive.

Thanks

superman:
First of all, if your destination drive is smaller than your source drive,
that does *not* necessarily mean that you cannot *directly* clone the
contents of the source drive to the destination one. The crucial element is
the amount of data to be copied (cloned). For example, if your 80 GB source
drive contains 30 GB of data, there's no problem *directly* cloning the
contents of that 80 GB drive to a 40 GB destination drive. I trust you
understand that.
Anna

 

[Timothy Daniels]

superman:
First of all, if your destination drive is smaller than your source drive,
that does *not* necessarily mean that you cannot *directly* clone the
contents of the source drive to the destination one. The crucial element is
the amount of data to be copied (cloned). For example, if your 80 GB source
drive contains 30 GB of data, there's no problem *directly* cloning the
contents of that 80 GB drive to a 40 GB destination drive. I trust you
understand that.
Anna

Does Ghost indeed know how much data there is in the partition
before it decides if the destination partition is large enough, or
does it just compare partition sizes?

*TimDaniels*

 

[Anna]

Does Ghost indeed know how much data there is in the partition
before it decides if the destination partition is large enough, or
does it just compare partition sizes?

*TimDaniels*

Tim:
I'm not certain of the precise methodology Ghost 2003 employs in this
situation. All I know is that before Ghost will allow the cloning process to
begin it determines that the destination partition contains sufficient disk
space to receive the data contents being cloned from the source disk. So it
would seem apparent that it has computed the amount of data on the source
disk at an early point of the cloning process.
Anna

 

[Guest]

Try with the option Immage ALL, this will also copy your boot sector.

Make sure your partition is set to active (gdisk)

There are some issues with ghost 7.5 and xp but that is for a dual boot.

Regards

Rogier

 

[Guest]

Try the old fashion dos trick.

Use ghost with the image all settings.

This way you can clone a harddrive or a partition.

You do NOT need any other tools, unless you do not have gdisk

I you try to make a dual boot environment watch out be sure that you reboot
the xp install from the
right acitive partition.


Roger