Using Ghost in XP machine NTFS - how restore?

[Patty Amas]

Can I run Ghost on an XP laptop with NTFS and restore without a
problem (since it is NTFS)?


My concern is how would I restore the image if my system crashed
considering it is a laptop without a floppy drive. I am wondering how
I would run or create a bootable restore CD that would be able to
read NTFS and restore the image??

On my desktop machine that is Win 2k and Fat32, I can simply boot with
a Dos Diskette but this is becuase I have a diskette drive and it is
FAT32.

Thanks a lot.
Patty

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

RTM - "Read the Manual" - Ghost works just fine doing this, provided
you have one of the latest versions, created in 2002 or later.

 

[Patty Amas]

I looked at the online help and the Utlities for Ghost 2003 and it
sows only options to create a diskette. Even though one of the
selections shows an icon and has a title stating CD/DVD-it still only
provides an option to write to drive A or B:.

Thanks for some additional guidance.

Also I assume I would need to create this CD from my Windows XP
machine and not from my Windows 2k machine that has Fat32 if I will
need NTFS support. ****Correct??

Thanks again and excuse my ignorance on this.

Sincerely
Patty

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[RA]

You could just go buy an external floppy drive. They aren't expensive.
I could be wrong, but I haven't found a way to use Ghost to make an image
without booting with a floppy. When I use Ghost to create an image, I write
the image to an external hard drive that I use for backups and for extra
storage. When you use Ghost to create the image, there are switches you can
use that will divide the image into whatever size you choose, so that you
can later write the image to several CDs. When you create the CDs, you can
make them bootable.

 

[Bob Harris]

Temporarily get a USB floppy and make the GHOST boot set with it.

Then, create a bootable CD using whatever CD-writing software you have. (I
doubt that the XP-default software can do this, but Easy CD Creator and Nero
can). Use the first of the two GHOST 2003 floppies to make the A:\ drive on
the bootable CD. Use the second floppy to make the B:\ drive. Both these
drives are on the same CD. The first one is contained in a pair of special
files that should be created for you by the CD writing software. The second
one is anything else you care to write to the CD, but in practice should be
the other GHOST floppy.

Test the bootable CD in the PC. You may need to manually switch from the
"A:\ drive" to the "B:\ drive", once the PC is booted into DOS. This may
take some horsing around to get right. In fact, playing with the floppies
until one boots you into DOS and the other installs the rest of GHOST and
drivers into memory is probably the way to go. Then, make the bootable CD
after the floppies do wht you want.

Feel free to suggest that Symantec move into the 21st century and teach
GHOST to write its own bootable CD! (Some other backup/restore programs can
do this.)