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Subject: Burning Norton ghost
image

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Name: deity_me
Date: November 08, 2004 at 08:24:48
Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost
image
OS: WinXP
CPU/Ram: Athlon 1800

Comment:

I've got a problem with ghosting my HDD.
I want to
create a bootable CD with the image of my computer, but I dont
have a burner on the computer I want to ghost. My other computer
on the other hand has a burner. So the best I can do is to save
the ghost image to a file and then transfer that file to my
computer with a burner.
The problem is that I have no idea how
to burn that image file onto CD. I use Nero for my burning
purposes - but nero cant seem to burn this ghost image.

I've been googling the world over - but they all involve making
a bootable floppy which i dont want. I want it to boot directly
from CD and then restore from that CD.

Any help would be great
thanks

Money not an issue?
Where do you
live and when are you not home?
I'm not gonna rob you, I'm just
gonna steal some stuff

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Name: Kurt
(by Kurt S)
Date: November 08, 2004 at 09:40:50
Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost
image

Reply:

There is nothing special about the image, Nero should
burn it just fine. What error messages do you get wehn trying to
burn it to Nero?

If the image file is too large, you can alsways split it up
with Ghost Explorer.

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Name: deity_me
Date: November 08, 2004 at 09:48:30
Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost
image

Reply:

it doesnt recognize it as being an image
it asks
for some settings on how to burn it and i dont know what they
should be

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live and when are you not home?
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Name: Kurt
(by Kurt S)
Date: November 08, 2004 at 10:04:46
Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost
image

Reply:

Ok, I think I see what the problem is. First you need
to create a boot floppy with Ghost. Then launch Nero and tell it
to make a bootable CD. Point it at the Ghost boot floppy you just
made, then in the next window just drag the image file over to the
other window. Then click on the burn icon.

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Name: OtheHill
Date:
November 08, 2004 at 11:00:27 Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost image

Reply:

What version of Ghost are you using?

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Name: deity_me
Date: November 08, 2004 at 12:51:50
Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost
image

Reply:

boot disk thingy doesnt work - it boots up but wont
let me restore saying that the cd wasnt created using norton
ghost.

I'm using Norton Ghost 2003

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Name: OtheHill
Date:
November 08, 2004 at 13:11:28 Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost image

Reply:

If the two computers are networked you can install
ghost on the machine with the burner and Ghost an image of the
drive or partition across the network to the host machine. The
restore can be done two ways. You can restore back from the host
machine to the original location or you can boot to the Ghost CD
at the original location and then use the image disks to restore
from there. Ghost will span multiple disks, CDR or DVDR, to
complete the image. Ghost uses compression to create the image.
You can choose maximum compression or maximum speed or a blend,
which is the default. On my system I typically get 1GB of
compressed data on a CDR (700MB). I have used both CDR and DVD.
All you have to do is be sure that Ghost can see the burner. A
bootable image isn't necessary. I don't know if it would even
work. One thing to keep in mind. With Ghost you can't do
incremental backups, only an image of the entire drive or
partition. You can however restore individual folders or files,
should that be necessary. Also, if hardware changes are made you
need to ReGhost an image.

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Name: Kurt
(by Kurt S)
Date: November 08, 2004 at 13:13:17
Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost
image

Reply:

Ok, slow down and let's take one thing at a time.

First you say you can't create a CD with the image, now you say
the boot disc tells you the CD wasn't created with Norton Ghost.

If you can't create a CD then how are you getting to the point
of the boot disk telling you the CD isn't
correct?

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Name: deity_me
Date: November 08, 2004 at 13:35:39
Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost
image

Reply:

okay here's my situation - recap

comp1
has the burner - i can make an image and save it
directly to bootable CDs and restore my entire C drive using those
disks

comp2
does not have a burner
i can ghost the HDD but it
has the image to a file on a separate partition. ie: drive D:
I
want to make bootable CDs just like what I have for comp1

now someone said to make ghost boot disks from comp2 and use
those to make a boot CD with nero.
Steps I have taken
1)
made the boot disks in comp2
2) made a ghost image in comp2 and
tranfered the file over to comp1 via network
3) trying to make
boot CDs in comp1 using the boot disk created from comp2 and the
ghost image created from comp2

this thing burns and does boot up - but when I try to restore
from the CD - it says that the CD wasnt created by norton - so i'm
stuck and i cant restore.

comp 2 is a laptop - I can either have a floppy drive or a
CDrom Drive

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Where do you
live and when are you not home?
I'm not gonna rob you, I'm just
gonna steal some stuff

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Name: OtheHill
Date:
November 08, 2004 at 13:58:09 Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost image

Reply:

Try to map the drive on Comp 2 to comp 1 then create
the image of that drive using Ghost installed on comp 2. As I
stated in response #6, you don't need a floppy to restore an
image. Simply boot to the Ghost CD and then provide the CD image
as requested. The following is an excerpt from the Ghost PDF
files: Note: If you saved your image file directly to CD or DVD,
then you do not need a recovery boot disk. Norton Ghost includes
Ghost.exe if you save the image file to CD or
DVD.

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Name: deity_me
Date: November 08, 2004 at 14:29:08
Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost
image

Reply:

How can i ghost across a network?
that peer-to-peer
option while i was in dos mode was greyed out and cant be
selected.

How do i map a drive so that norton can ghost it fully?

I'm going away for a couple months thats why I need a ghost
image - and i'd rather not be walking around with my norton ghost
CD.

Money not an issue?
Where do you
live and when are you not home?
I'm not gonna rob you, I'm just
gonna steal some stuff

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Name: Kurt
(by Kurt S)
Date: November 08, 2004 at 14:39:52
Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost
image

Reply:

For ease and simplicity at this point, could you just
take the burner out of comp1 and put it in comp2 and mimick the
exact steps you did on comp1 to make an image?

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Name: deity_me
Date: November 08, 2004 at 14:49:05
Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost
image

Reply:

i'd like to do that but comp2 is a laptop and comp1 is
a desktop

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live and when are you not home?
I'm not gonna rob you, I'm just
gonna steal some stuff

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Name: Kurt
(by Kurt S)
Date: November 08, 2004 at 15:13:35
Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost
image

Reply:

Ok here's another option. I'm not sure why the boot
disk is complaining about Norton not making the CD so let's try
something different.

Go to www.bootdisk.com and download a bootdisk creation file.
Now create a bootdisk. somewhere on your Ghost CD you should have
a file called ghostpe.exe. Move that to the bootdisk you just
made.

Now boot with that disk, create the image, then go back into
Windows. Launch Nero, tell it to create a bootable CD and point it
at the bootdisk you just made. Then When the Nero Explorer window
comes up drag the image file over to the other side and burn the
image.

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Name: OtheHill
Date:
November 08, 2004 at 15:49:40 Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost image

Reply:

Just make a copy of the Ghost CD. What's the big deal,
one more CD. If you have a typical installation your Ghost image
will span many CDs anyway. I don't use XP but in Win98 there is an
option in the file tab to map network drives. Try the help files
in windows if use don't see it. I have Ghost as part of
Systemworks Pro 2003 and it has network options.

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Name: Sci-Guy
Date: November 08, 2004 at 16:40:09
Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost
image

Reply:

Go here
and look at response number 4.

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Name: Mikeee
Date: November 24, 2004 at 08:52:31
Pacific
Subject: Burning Norton ghost
image

Reply:

Hey all,

If you are using ghost 8 or some earlier versions you can
create CD/DVD Startup disk with ghost (Ghost boot disk with
generic CD rom drivers for reading disks that were not created
with Ghost)

I had this same problem when burning split images as isos with
Nero - the alternative boot disk worked fine for that problem.

Hope this helps.

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