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Hi ahmedalmatook,
I generally always boot to DOS and use fdisk for such things. However, I have used PM 7 at times. So, it's your call on that one.
Paul is right on the money that you can't write to a local drive formatted NTFS with Ghost 2002. That is one of the new (and neat) features of Ghost 2003, in that it is able to write to NTFS partitions or drives. Being able to actually run it in Windows is also a new feature that I suspect appeals to many who have obtained Ghost 2003...
Paul, it's been too long for me to recall the particulars, but I ran into a situation where Ghost did not offer the destination drive, even though there was adequate free space. By using the -OR switch, I was able to accomplish my goal. So anyway, that's the reason I mentioned that piece...
Glad that you have things sorted out there, Ahmed. No doubt this has been a good mental excercise for numerous enthusiasts who have followed this thread along, including yours truly! :D
Limerick
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Hi Limerick ,
Yeah , you're probably right about the -or switch . To be honest I've never used it . The only reason I remembered about the space thing is that the first time I tried to back something up I did it to the floppy drive . Suffice to say I ran out of space pretty quick but it did let me . I'm quite happy copying everything to my FAT32 with -auto switch so no need for version 2003 yet . I actually managed to create a Peer To Peer bootdisk last week which also lets me backup my labtop to my desktop . Great little program . Also , PC life wouldn't be worth living without PM7 :)
Later
Paul
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thank you for your replies, and I am sorry for my delayed reply , in fact I did not log in due to some job related issues. I will redo my ghost on Sunday and will post the results.
Regards
Ahmed
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Hi Paul and Lim and the others
For moments I was thinking how to write and tell you good people that we achieved success and managed to Image my HDD, I Don’t know what happened, after formatting my slave hard drive to FAT32 and running Ghost I had every thing moving as expected (Ghost can read my slave HDD), although I was scared to death because I was not knowing what is happening exactly, (remembering Paul’s comments on “MAKE SURE YOU DO NO MISTAKES”) beside … my wife’s documents was not backed up (Opss disaster is knocking on my door……hah) after 14 minutes and 35% of the imaging was completed.. Every thing stopped and Ghost asked me to INSERT THE SECOND MEDIA. What 2nd media?? That was after 2Gig of imaging, my slave HDD has 10Gigs and free from any thing (EMPTY), just formatted it seconds ago using PM8. What 2nd media he is talking about??
So I decided to press cancel and report to you, you might have an Idea on what went wrong?? Now on my slave HDD I have an image of part of my hard drive (please refer to attachment).
Regards
Ahmed :confused:
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ahmedalmatook,
Looks like you forgot the -auto switch . The maximum file size in a FAT32 partition is 2Gb . That being the case your Ghost image , if it's bigger than 2Gb , will be split into various files of 2Gb . The problem is that if you don't specify the -auto you are prompted , as you've just seen , to insert the next media . Create your boot disk (I know , again) and when it gives you the option put in the parameter box "-auto" without the "s . You can delete the 2Gb file you've just created before you start from explorer .
Paul
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My apology for the delay, I was involved with so many things which kept me away from my task in imaging my drive,
pmcmill
can you please tell me exactly where to put this “-auto switch” ?
1. what do you mean by switch?
2. where do I get this switch from?
3. Is it on the Norton ghost floppy?
I have no clue
Regards
Ahmed
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Hi ahmedalmatook,
Once you boot to the A:>, rather than typing:
ghost
to start Ghost like you've been doing, type:
ghost -auto
to tell Ghost to automatically continue with the next segment once it reaches the 2 GB limit. That's all there is to it...
Limerick
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Limerick
thanks I will try it next weekend and will post back.
regards
Ahmed
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Switch just means option/parameter . When you're making the bootdisk at one point a field appears at the bottom asking you if you want to add any parameters . If you put "-auto" in there it'll automatically add this parameter to the bootdisk and you won't have to type it in manually .
Paul
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Hi
Just to confirm, in the parameter box do I put:
1- "-auto" or
2- "ghoust-auto" ?
hope that I am not bothering you friends :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Thank you for all the input you put into this thread, without your comprehensive and precise instructions I wouldn’t be able to Image my drive on my slave drive,
Big Thanks to every body with my deepest respect
Ahmed :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
