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Andrew C. Cooper
Have it boot off the ghost file cd.dszady said:
G
Greg Austin
Boomer said:Greg Austin wrote:
[snip]
Appreciate if acf remains about *freeware programs*.
You mean I bought Acronis True Image for nothing and there's a freeware
equivalent?
Don't keep it to yourself, Boomer!
Greg
A
anyamay
Boot from the Ghost floppy. It will only work that way.
A
Andrew C Cooper
D
Dugie
:
:
: > Hello:
: >
: > I am trying to clone my hard drive using Norton Ghost. I know
: > this is a freeware newsgroup but I hope someone can help me
: > figure this out. I reboot my computer with my start up disk to
: > get into dos (minimal boot). Then I put in my Norton Ghost
: > floppy disk and type a:ghost.exe or c:ghost.exe but nothing
: > happens at either prompts. The words bad command are shown. I am
: > following what the directions tell me to do but it does not
: > work. Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
: >
: > Thank you
:
: you need to have a \ after the : ie a:\
:
: Sonnsa
__
The easiest way to issue DOS commands is to log onto the drive where the program is located.
To do this, put your disk in drive A:\ and type:
A:
<press enter>
GHOST (or whatever the program name is)
<press enter>
Or as one person commented, boot from A:\ with the Ghost disk.
It's great to have a DOS question!
:
: > Hello:
: >
: > I am trying to clone my hard drive using Norton Ghost. I know
: > this is a freeware newsgroup but I hope someone can help me
: > figure this out. I reboot my computer with my start up disk to
: > get into dos (minimal boot). Then I put in my Norton Ghost
: > floppy disk and type a:ghost.exe or c:ghost.exe but nothing
: > happens at either prompts. The words bad command are shown. I am
: > following what the directions tell me to do but it does not
: > work. Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
: >
: > Thank you
:
: you need to have a \ after the : ie a:\
:
: Sonnsa
__
The easiest way to issue DOS commands is to log onto the drive where the program is located.
To do this, put your disk in drive A:\ and type:
A:
<press enter>
GHOST (or whatever the program name is)
<press enter>
Or as one person commented, boot from A:\ with the Ghost disk.
It's great to have a DOS question!
B
Baron Of Hell
Ghost isn't that hard to work with even for someone new. Once you get the
hang of it you will be able to clone a drive or restore a drive in a few
minutes.
Next time you might want to put OT in the subject when you post about out
topic stuff.
J
John Corliss
Baron said:
But of course, the only excuse for discussing commercial software in
this group is when using it as an example of a (the) feature(s) one is
looking for in a freeware program. The (O.T.) inclusion was never
intended to be used as a means of starting a discussion purely about
commercial software.
--
Regards from John Corliss
alt.comp.freeware F.A.Q.:
http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/F.A.Q./FrameSet1.html
Note that I can't see any of Andy Mabbett's troll posts
because I have him killfiled.
F
Fanman Uk
Greg Austin wrote:
[snip]
Appreciate if acf remains about *freeware programs*.
Your wish is my command Boomer
)I require a freeware version of Ghost, DI, Trueimage or
Instantrecovery etc. I have tried some of these programs or the trial
versions, on an old computer which uses an add-on ATA controller. None
of those tested have worked to date each suffering a different
problem.
The program must work with Win98 / DOS and save/recover to/from
cdr-rw. The machine cannot boot from CD.
Fanman Uk.
To reply by email remove the "fanman."
V
Vic Dura
Oh? Is that another rule you just made up?
D
Dugie
:
: : > Not to be critical, but if your understanding of DOS commands is this
: slim,
: > you might want to re-think whether you can ghost a drive and the
: > successfully restore it anyway.
:
: Quite. Ghost is complicated and antiquated - for geeks only. Get Acronis
: true Image which will make an image of your active partiton without your
: even having to leave Windows - all with the help of a wizard.. When you need
: to restore, the bootable True Image CD provides a GUI that looks almost like
: Windows and leads you through the process with an idiot-proof wizard..
: You'll never get another DOS "bad command" again.
:
: This is my most valued program. The only fault is that it doesn't write
: images to CD very reliably. I always write the image to my backup partition
: (although I have it backed up on CD too). It's been 100% reliable so far.
:
: Greg
Would using a CD checking program like CDCheck help with the fault of not writing reliable CD inages?
I'd make a 2nd backup as well. There's too much to use.
: : > Not to be critical, but if your understanding of DOS commands is this
: slim,
: > you might want to re-think whether you can ghost a drive and the
: > successfully restore it anyway.
:
: Quite. Ghost is complicated and antiquated - for geeks only. Get Acronis
: true Image which will make an image of your active partiton without your
: even having to leave Windows - all with the help of a wizard.. When you need
: to restore, the bootable True Image CD provides a GUI that looks almost like
: Windows and leads you through the process with an idiot-proof wizard..
: You'll never get another DOS "bad command" again.
:
: This is my most valued program. The only fault is that it doesn't write
: images to CD very reliably. I always write the image to my backup partition
: (although I have it backed up on CD too). It's been 100% reliable so far.
:
: Greg
Would using a CD checking program like CDCheck help with the fault of not writing reliable CD inages?
I'd make a 2nd backup as well. There's too much to use.