OT: to Ghost Laptop

[Deon H]

Hi there,
I know that this is way oof topic, but I really need your help here.

How do I ghost the current HDD on my Laptop to a newly bought HDD? I don't
want to install everything from fresh.

I have Norton Ghost 2003.

Regards,
Deon H

 

[Jo Bo]

Hi there,
I know that this is way oof topic, but I really need your help here.

How do I ghost the current HDD on my Laptop to a newly bought HDD? I don't
want to install everything from fresh.

I have Norton Ghost 2003.

Regards,
Deon H

Use Ghost to save a image to someplace except your current hard drive. Maybe
a cd writer, internal or external. Swap the drives then restore from image.

JoBo

 

[R. McCarty]

If the laptop has a CD-R or DVD-R, you can image the drive
to a set of disks. Remove the old drive, re-install the new and
recover the images to the new drive & resize or partition the
extra space. Ghost 2003 should work in that scenario in a
DOS boot mode.

The only other options are a network image or placing the
Laptop drive in a Desktop unit with a cable converter and
creating the image that way. I suppose a external drive would
work, IF the laptop supports Legacy USB and can boot from
the external.

 

[Deon H]

Hi there,
thanx very much to the both of youfor your support.

Now I can go on.

Deon H

 

[Tumbleweed]

Hi there,
thanx very much to the both of youfor your support.

Now I can go on.

Deon H

If the laptop is a different make or model you may well find it wont reboot
after you have restored the image, at best you'll have to do a repair
install at worst a complete reinstall I'd recommend backing up all your data
as well.

 

[Deon H]

Hi there,
I have thought it to be a good idea to back up first.

I have also seen the boot-question on Symantec's site, together with the
fix.

Thanx again.

Deon H

 

[Eric McG]

Have you considered the WPA requirements of Windows XP? AFAIK you can't transfer
an OEM version of the OS to another computer and expect MS to activate it.

If you happen to have a retail version installed, there should be no problem as
long as the OS is only installed on one system.

See this link for more detailed info:
http://winsupportcenter.com/win5/a/wpa.htm

 

[Elector]

Hi there,
I have thought it to be a good idea to back up first.

I have also seen the boot-question on Symantec's site, together with the
fix.

Thanx again.

Deon H

The easiest way is the way I did it when I purchased a new laptop I bought a
EZ-GIG USB 2.0 Data Transfer Kit
EZ-UP-UNIVERSAL
http://www.drivesolutions.com/cgi-b...ms&kind=accessory&pos=0&type=itemid&itemid=a8
from http://www.drivesolutions.com

you can also purchase from the company or from a retailer.

In the link above you will see that the retail price is $69 and you can get
$25 back and the $44 dollars is well spent. It transfers the old drive over
to the new drive and is easy to use. After that you remove the old Hard
drive and simply replace the new drive in. No bullshit no worry no muss or
fuss.

Simply follow the directions and in a few hours/minutes you can have a
larger or better drive up and running.

Then you can use the older drive as additional space since the device allows
you to have another drive if you so desire (external) it is quite the
device.

Elector

 

[CS]

Hi there,
I know that this is way oof topic, but I really need your help here.

How do I ghost the current HDD on my Laptop to a newly bought HDD? I don't
want to install everything from fresh.

I have Norton Ghost 2003.

Regards,
Deon H

Read your Ghost 2003 manual (it's in PDF format, you'll need the Adobe
Acrobat Reader, www.adobe.com). The manual has excellent instructions
on how to clone a hard drive or copy one drive to another.

The mechanics of doing it with two laptop hard drives is going to be a
bit more challenging than doing it with two drives for a desktop. You
might want to consider copying the image of the current laptop hard
drive to DVD+R/RW (if you have one) or to CDR/CDRW. Then copy the
image back to the new hard drive.

Ghost 2003 is small enough to fit on a bootable floppy disk. If your
laptop does not have a floppy drive, you can place the Ghost 2003
program on a bootable CD and do it that way. Just use a bootable
Win98 disk with nothing else on the disk except for io.sys, msdos.sys,
command.com, and very basic autoexec.bat and config.sys files. The
Ghost 2003 executable will fit nicely on that disk.