Help from people that use things like Norton Ghost
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Help from people that use things like Norton Ghost
Just got hold of Norton Ghost (14 I think).
I have three PC's that I want to take an image of each and store each image on a single USB HD.
What is the best way to do this.
I want to be able to restore an individual image when ever I need to (obviously lol).
The way I understand it, I need to partition the USB HD at least three ways and store an image in each partition?
Is that right?
Any guidance would be appreciated.
I have three PC's that I want to take an image of each and store each image on a single USB HD.
What is the best way to do this.
I want to be able to restore an individual image when ever I need to (obviously lol).
The way I understand it, I need to partition the USB HD at least three ways and store an image in each partition?
Is that right?
Any guidance would be appreciated.
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Not quite. The image Ghost creates for each drive is just a set of files, so you can save them wherever you want. In Ghost you have options to ghost a whole drive or individual partitions. So you could save the files created to folders for each of your drives on the USB backup HD. You could just dump all the files for all 3 drives in once place to if you wanted. No need to create seperate partitions on the backup HD.
When restoring I find it best to create a bootable Ghost CD to work from, then when Ghost is loaded from that you simply point it at the 1st file for your image on the backup USB HD. Oh and make sure your version of Ghost can actually find your USB HD ok. Should be fine though.
When restoring I find it best to create a bootable Ghost CD to work from, then when Ghost is loaded from that you simply point it at the 1st file for your image on the backup USB HD. Oh and make sure your version of Ghost can actually find your USB HD ok. Should be fine though.
Last edited by bioforger; 06 May 2009 at 08:37 PM.
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Ahh... OK I must be following the wrong bit then, as when I went to image a drive it said that the destination will be completely over written.
Will double check I am doing what I should be doing.
Thanks for your help.
Will double check I am doing what I should be doing.
Thanks for your help.
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assuming that your version of ghost came on CD - the cd is bootable. if you want to restore your drive, u boot from the ghost cd, then browse to the place u have stored your ghost images, choose one and let ghost do the rest..
Last edited by albob; 09 May 2009 at 10:43 PM.
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Thanks for the guidance.
Trust me... I am not normally this thick (or perhaps I am lol), but I couldn't be arsed to read the manual.
bioforger,
Will have a look at creating a bootable Ghost CD.
Trust me... I am not normally this thick (or perhaps I am lol), but I couldn't be arsed to read the manual.
bioforger,
Will have a look at creating a bootable Ghost CD.
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