Norton Ghost Windows 10 Portable
Alke Stilwell
i am using ghost with pe 5 on dell machines. i created an new image using windows 11 23H2 and ghost stops at 50% with no errors. Network admin worked with me for two hours and no errors other than just stopping.
the first time is mentioned framenet. so i checked and my framenet was not installed (all versions). i installed them and retested. now i got the same error but a mention of runtime library. i downloaded and installed c++ distri library, cleaned up image and ghosted.
If running in winpe environment how was the machine shut down. If the machine was shutdown forcable it may leave a log bit on the drive try using -ntil -ntic -ntexact command line parameters for ghost
I would like to make some disk images after I do the OS, drivers, programs etc installs. That way if something goes wrong, I should be able to just restore the image and don't have to start all over. Anyone know what's the best software to do this with? I read conflicting reports and seems a lot of the ones recommended in the past do not actually exist anymore...
it kind of depends on your hardware and os you are using. i backup all my retro machines because i hate installing software.
i use the following:
windows 95 - ghost 5.1, works well with low memory systems (windows or dos)
windows 98se - clonezilla 1.1.0-8, requires more memory than ghost, this version runs well on older chipsets like bx440 or i815 (bootable cd)
windows 2000 - acronis true image 10 w/bart's pe builder, has a few different boot and recovery options to run from windows or other bootable environment. also useful if you need to backup a raid array.
windows xp (and above) - macrium reflect . whatever the latest version is. still runs on xp. love those guys.
windows 2000 - acronis true image 10 w/bart's pe builder, has a few different boot and recovery options to run from windows or other bootable environment.
also useful if you need to above) - macrium reflect . whatever the latest version is. still runs on xp. love those guys.
I'm speaking under correction, but I think at some point Acronis True Image 7.x also supported Win98SE/Me, still.
Anyway, not sure anymore. I loved Acronis True Image in the Win XP days, because it was user friendly, logical and could do 1:1 images of partitons/HDDs,
with several compression levels, along with the ability to resize images and restore Partition IDs (useful for Win NT/XP). Last, but not least, it also had an emgerceny boot disc
that could be made with a media builder program (supported making floppies and CDs). It contained a self-booting copy of True Image by using a both DOS and Linux based system each.
Also cool was the ability of newer versions to be able to restore older versions backups. That way, you could upgrade without loosing your old backups.
That being said, True Image lost appeal after version 10 or so I heard. We mainly used ATI 7 and 9 here.
I run it off the bootable CD and have used it to image and restore DOS 6.22, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It natively supports my USB 2.0 NTFS-formatted external HDD, so imaging is fast and space constrains aren't an issue.
No, this won't give you an *exact* copy of your drive. You can only get an exact copy by using imaging software, not by doing a file-copy. Not to mention that your copy is physical as well - being just on a second hard disk - and nothing you can put on a NAS for later restore, for example.
added: I have bought Acronis from v10 thru v16 and then 2017 and 2018 versions. and all allowed making a great media ISO like v8 except in 2016-17 they changed things and the media ISO does not work the same. For anyone looking to image from WinXP thru Win10 I suggest Acronis v16 if you can find it...
I use Acronis True Image 2019 for my XP/Win 10 Machine. It's the last version to support XP, but it long ago lost Win 9x functionality. For my 98/XP Machine I use Norton Ghost 9.0. I have an older version of Ghost that runs on a floppy but I think that's only good up to 9x.
Just for a point of reference. I use FOG, and I can go from bare metal to a 20GB fat image, Win7 image ready for the desktop in under 15 minutes. I have deploy rates to a Dell e7250 in the area of 6.1GB/min and to a 7280 with an nvme disk around 9GB/min. Under stand the deployment rates are how fast the target computer can receive the image from the FOG server and expand it to the disk. If we deploy using multicast we can deploy Win7 to 30 system in about 22 minutes.
In your case I think you need to define your requirements a bit more beyond just a fast deployment. Like will you deploy only windows OS or are you looking at additional operating systems like Chromium OS, BSD, or Linux?
As a new staff, I would try to understand the whole flow instead of changing the process as you may have different set ups and different images already (created by ghost) and using other software ware may mean that you may have to create new master images.
Better preparation of the image can speed up matters like removing unnecessary programmes defrag and zeroing the unused parts. Also shrink partitions and re-expand after cloning. Here are some references _to/140432-clonezilla-creating-small-fast-clones and CCleaner Support Community
The USB stick is use to Launch Symantec Ghost > multicast . Currently, I am imaging using a local network through a switch using two pc. Right now for window 7 32bit takes about 30mins and Window 7 64bit takes about 1hr.
Hi, I have Norton Systemwork 2003, which has Norton Ghost. I haven't tried it yet, but can I clone my primary hard drive, which is a 60Gb on my laptop (running XP home), to an external USB hard drive (which is also 60GB)? (My external harddrive, however, is a 3.5" harddrive in an enclosure)
Hi, I have Norton Systemwork 2003, which has Norton Ghost. I
haven't tried it yet, but can I clone my primary hard drive, which
is a 60Gb on my laptop (running XP home), to an external USB hard
drive (which is also 60GB)? (My external harddrive, however, is a
3.5" harddrive in an enclosure)
I use Norton Ghost 2003. I prefer to backup (for example - my Primary Hard Drive) to an image file. I do NOT use the provisions to Back Up a Partition ONLY from my Primary Hard Drive that contains 2 partitions (C: and D:) in order to NOT have any problems when I need to restore to a NEW Hard Drive.
This can be backed up to another Hard Drive, CD's, DVD's, that are internal to the computer. I also have an external CD-DVD Read/Write Drive that I use both USB 2.0 and Firewire and the backup is normal and validates (to an image file) just fine.
I suggest that you NOT use the Clone function since this can result in having more thsm ONE Bootable drive connected to the computer at the same time.
I always backup and Validate to an image file.
I prefer to use a Ghost Boot Disk that has been previously prepared (within Ghost) to have the support for both USB 2.0 and Firewire and start the Computer using this Ghost Boot Disk to Native DOS that comes with Ghost which was added to the Floopy Boot Disk when it was created.
There also are provisions to create a BOOT CD, however; since I have a 1.44 floppy drive I prefer to use it since if (when doing a restore) there are any problems with the CD Drive(s) being supported, I don't have to be concerned about that.
Hope this Helps....
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Vernon...
I am really naive in this area. But pardon me for asking: why both you and the other guy back up to an image file? Would this image file be able to bring back the ENTIRE content of my hard drive, JUST IN CASE the hard drive becomes brain dead all of a sudden?
I was asking this question, in the context that if I get a serious virus attack and the computer becomes useless. Instead of doing a manufacturer's system recovery, which would not give me back all the applications, files, etc., I want to be able to save an ENTIRE "copy" of my hard drive, so I can always "re-create" the entire same content to a new drive. Oh, for conversation sake, I have only 1 C drive in my laptop; therefore, I don't have the 2 petition things to worry about. Right?
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