Symantec Ghost

[Mark]

My exposure to Norton Ghosit is DOS based. I would like to know if it
is possible to do the following (and which versions support it):

If I have a computer running Windows XP corporate, and an image file
on say Drive "C", can I add a hard drive to the system, deploy the
image from within Windows to the new hard drive, remove the hard drive
and install the drive in a new system?

I would even like to extend htis one step further:

Can I image an IDE drive connected through a USB adapter (recognized
under Windows XP) from within th O/S?

I would then install the hard drive into another computer.

Are any of these tasks possible? If so, how?

Also, can someone tell me the latest version of the Ghost product?

I have seen 2003, 7.5, and 8.0. Which is latest?

Thanks,

Mark
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[- Karl]

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My exposure to Norton Ghosit is DOS based. I would like to know if it
is possible to do the following (and which versions support it):

If I have a computer running Windows XP corporate, and an image file
on say Drive "C", can I add a hard drive to the system, deploy the
image from within Windows to the new hard drive, remove the hard drive
and install the drive in a new system?

Yes and know. You can restore the image to a slave drive then put that
drivve into another system as long as the HW is the same, else xp will have
issues with the HW not being the same. Also, by doing so, you will probably
activate the XP Activation security, even if your HW is the same. This is
because every HW has a unique ID and if XP sees 3 different ID's, it will
balk and ask you to activate it.

I would even like to extend htis one step further:

Can I image an IDE drive connected through a USB adapter (recognized
under Windows XP) from within th O/S?

If Ghosts does not require a reboot to create the image in DOS mode, then
yes. If you have to reboot, forget it as the system will not load up the
drivers need to see the USB drive unless the BIOS has that ability perhaps?

Also, can someone tell me the latest version of the Ghost product?

I have seen 2003, 7.5, and 8.0. Which is latest?

Go to their website. It's listed

 

[Patrick Dunford]

My exposure to Norton Ghosit is DOS based. I would like to know if it
is possible to do the following (and which versions support it):

If I have a computer running Windows XP corporate, and an image file
on say Drive "C", can I add a hard drive to the system, deploy the
image from within Windows to the new hard drive, remove the hard drive
and install the drive in a new system?

I would even like to extend htis one step further:

Can I image an IDE drive connected through a USB adapter (recognized
under Windows XP) from within th O/S?

I would then install the hard drive into another computer.

Are any of these tasks possible? If so, how?

Use a network to install stuff from another computer. Ghost supports this
very well.

You can also install Windows XP over a network.

 

[Mark]

Are you refering to Ghostcasting / Multicasting? I have Norton 7.5
setup on a Windows XP corporate machine, and run the Ghostcast server.
For the client computer, I have a ghost boot disk (DOS disk) with NIC
drivers which loads correctly. I give the session a name, but even
though the client gets an ip an initializes correctly, it cannot find
the session. There are only two computers connected together. I have
tried using seession name and IP address.

The ghostcasting has not worked consistently for me. Sometimes I find
the session, sometimes I don't. With the last system I was trying to
ghost, I could not find the session. I thought it might be XP firewall
settings, but the XP firewall in the advanced NIC settingsis not
activated

Any suggestions?

 

[Patrick Dunford]

Are you refering to Ghostcasting / Multicasting? I have Norton 7.5
setup on a Windows XP corporate machine, and run the Ghostcast server.
For the client computer, I have a ghost boot disk (DOS disk) with NIC
drivers which loads correctly. I give the session a name, but even
though the client gets an ip an initializes correctly, it cannot find
the session. There are only two computers connected together. I have
tried using seession name and IP address.

The ghostcasting has not worked consistently for me. Sometimes I find
the session, sometimes I don't. With the last system I was trying to
ghost, I could not find the session. I thought it might be XP firewall
settings, but the XP firewall in the advanced NIC settingsis not
activated

Any suggestions?

I have seen errors occur typically while initalising the multicast driver
in the target computer. This can be caused by using the wrong NDIS driver
or a faulty NIC.