Symantec GHOST is troubling !!!
"@earthlinkspam.net >
I have bene trying to back up my WIn2000 Professional using Ghost.
I used the bootable floppy(s) to create a *.gho file and then I removed
the Ghost installation from my pc.
I wanted to burn the *.GHO file using CDR so I edited the "AUTOEXEC.EXE"
by adding "-split=680 -auto"
....
cd \ghost
echo Loading...
GHOST.EXE -split=680 -auto
goto END
....
In my case, I ave 2 floppy's - so I edited both "AUTOEXEC.EXE" files
identically.
Its taking ever to creat a *.gho file that I wonder what's going on.
Also, after booting my PC with the Ghost floppy, booting my PC first few
times normally a problem!
I just wanted to create a 1 or 2 nice CD's so that I can recover my pc
desktop easily in case of a disaster.
Pls help me.
"@earthlinkspam.net >
I am lost;
My HD has 3 partitions and its FAT32;
I installed GHOST and created teh floppy - it needed 2 floppy's.
Then I created the backup *.GHO file in one of the partition - I also
uninstalled the GHOST.
Then I realized that I can't back it up on to the CDs as a single *.GHO
file that made the change to floppies as per my earlier posting below so
that I will have 2 *Gho files that I can burn to 2 CDs. Ever since I
made the change, its taking ever to backup.
Sorry, I couldn't follow your reply.
Hein Hobma wrote:
> In article <u%SYc.3316$w%6.2...@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>, "@
> earthlinkSPAM.net" <""acac49SPAM \"@ earthlinkSPAM.net"> says...
> The problem with Ghost booting from the cd, it sees the cd as a:.
>
> Booting from flop a:, you can't use the image on the cd to backup.
>
> Put the cd image on a hard disk using Ghostexp.exe, file, compile.
>
> It takes long using ntfs, Ghost puts lots of data in different blocks,
> if the partition is so large that you have two or more cd's you may
> switch cd's lots of time...
>
> So I work now with Hiren's boot cd V6,0 or a bootable zip drive with a
> menu to start ghost 8 or Pm6 or other disaster programs etc, and backup
> to a large usb2 hard disk. High speed, in minutes you save or put
> partitions back up to 600-700 meg per minute. The menu is dead simple;
> in the root are bat files like Ghost.bat, Pm.bat. With a usb stick it
> also works.
>
> To boot from them, under windows 9x or dos from a floppy, type sys a:
> ...: (your zip or usb stick) and finish it to your pleasing.
>
> sccs
>