Ghost 6.00

[boothbay]

I never used the Ghost software that a friend gave me a couple of years ago. Friend never used it either and has moved away, and lost contact. So I'm at the mercy of this forum.
Its Ghost 6.0 version. No manual, and no help area on the disk. So I'm merely guessing when I try to copy an image of my OS. Its on my c: drive. When I choose Local/Disk/partition, the source screen appears. It seems I don't have any option but to copy the entire 10g of my HD. Obviously, I don't have an extra 10g on my hd to copy it to. Regardless, it goes to my A drive. I don't want it on 10 floppies...spanning. I would just like to make an image of my c drive, which is small enough to fit on a partition that I had set up with Partition Magic. I tried the Local/disk/image route and get the same response. I would love to span it on my cd burner, but this program doesn't allow that. That is why I'm trying to copy it to another partition, and then try copying it from there to my burner and span away. Could someone tell me how I can get this done? Thanks

[BipolarBill]

1. You cannot make an image of a partition and store it on the same partition.
2. 10GB would be 1000 floppies. You will need a clear ~10GB partition to store an image of a 10GB partition.

How many partitions do you have and how much space is available on each? Which one are you trying to back up?

[boothbay]

Originally posted by BipolarBill
1. You cannot make an image of a partition and store it on the same partition.
2. 10GB would be 1000 floppies. You will need a clear ~10GB partition to store an image of a 10GB partition.

How many partitions do you have and how much space is available on each? Which one are you trying to back up?

I have 4 partitons, c,d,e,and f. My OS is on the c drive. I created another blank partition, which was G. My hd drive is a 10g drive. I'm encloseing my partitions.

[BipolarBill]

Your F drive is getting a little tight, no? ;)

You have no partition big enough for the image of C.

1. Move G up by 500MB.
2. Expand F to take up the slack.
3. Expand G up to the end of the drive.
4. Name the G drive "Backup".

Now run Ghost for C and choose High compression. Store the image on G.

[boothbay]

I will give it a try, but I still need help on why when i try to do this as I had mentioned in my original post and i repeat below. How do I get out of the program going to my A drive? I don't seem able to get that option. When I try partition, I get the *. GHT extension, when I try Image, I get the *.Img extension, but regardless, either way I get the entire hard drive as my source, and the A drive as the destination. What am i doing wrong?


<<<When I choose Local/Disk/partition, the source screen appears. It seems I don't have any option but to copy the entire 10g of my HD. Obviously, I don't have an extra 10g on my hd to copy it to. Regardless, it goes to my A drive. I don't want it on 10 floppies...spanning. >>>

[BipolarBill]

D'oh! Wrong choice. You need to choose Local > Partition > to Image.

You are actually choosing to image the entire drive to a partition. That can't work, obviously. When imaging an entire drive, you need another drive or CDR to do it.

Check each choice - don't assume.

[boothbay]

Originally posted by BipolarBill
D'oh! Wrong choice. You need to choose Local > Partition > to Image.

You are actually choosing to image the entire drive to a partition. That can't work, obviously. When imaging an entire drive, you need another drive or CDR to do it.

Check each choice - don't assume.

I realize that, but irregardless, when i choose Local/Partition, image, I get the entire hard drive as source and when I click ok, the next screen shows that its going to go to my A drive ( floppy). I don't want it to go there for obvious reasons, but I don't seem to have the option of changing it, unless there is a move that I missed?

[BipolarBill]

Make the changes with PM that I mentioned. What may be happening is that Ghost is seeing that you have no destination large enough for the image and knows that you can span with the A drive. Hence it's steering you in the the direction of the only valid choice you have - the floppy.

Make the changes, ok?

[boothbay]

Will do and thanks for your patience:)

[BipolarBill]

No problemo. Ghost can be as confusing as DOS sometimes.

Take a look at this:

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=22-140-118

I think it's time that you considered more storage space...;)

[shadow]

You're going to need a partition of at least 2G to store an Image file of your C partition. Using Ghost's high compression when making an image file gives you about 40-50% compression making the image file of your C partition about 1.5G.

When in Ghost, choose to create an Image File of your C partition and choose the highest compression rather than cloning it to another dive/partition.

[boothbay]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by BipolarBill
[B]No problemo. Ghost can be as confusing as DOS sometimes.

Especially when one has no manual and the program does not have a help column.
I repartitioned as u suggested and it worked out just fine. Now my c drive is in my G partition, compressed High. I also, did see that I did after all have an option of my cd. I do eventually want to move the image to my burner, but have no idea how many cd's I would need to do this. I know they are 650mb each. BTW, would I need to compress again to move it to my cd's?

[BipolarBill]

To transfer to CDR, you need to install the Ghost program to Windows and use Ghost Explorer to span the image (in Windows). You'll need about 3 CDRs.

I can't recall if you can image direct to CDR in DOS. Why don't you check it out? Load a blank CDR in the drive and reboot to Ghost.

[boothbay]

To transfer to CDR, you need to install the Ghost program to Windows and use Ghost Explorer >>>

What do u mean by Ghost Explorer? I don't know if I have it. How do I check to see if I have it?

[BipolarBill]

If you installed Ghost in Windows and then made the floppy, you have Ghost Explorer. In this case, go to the G drive and look at the image. If it has an "atomic" black icon, double-click it. Up comes Ghost Explorer.

[shadow]

What we do at work is use some switches with Ghost to create 600MB file sizes from the image as we make the image. Then we burn those files diectly to CDR. Problem is I cant recall the switches we use, but I can check this coming week, we have it as a batch file and simply run Ghost using it and it automatically makes the correct file sizes as it makes the image file.

[boothbay]

My Ghost version does have the spanning format, but it cannot be used directly to a burner...only floppies.

[boothbay]

Originally posted by BipolarBill
If you installed Ghost in Windows and then made the floppy, you have Ghost Explorer. In this case, go to the G drive and look at the image. If it has an "atomic" black icon, double-click it. Up comes Ghost Explorer.

I don't have Ghost in Windows. So I don't have Ghost explorer. My Ghost is on a floppy and it opens only in Dos, as far as I know. I did try your earlier suggestion about trying in Dos to go to the burner. It would not give me that option. I have to correct myself, i did think and said, that I might be able to do so, because I saw my cd drive in the drive area..but it was my cd rom drive, not my H burner drive.

[BipolarBill]

I guess that you'll have to "find" a copy of Ghost 7.0 or 6.0.