niel4more5
join:2002-03-09
Chesterfield, MO | [Help] Ghost 2003 How do I.......
I have an image (~ 6.0 MB) on a hard drive. Is there any way to convert and burn it to spannable cd-r's. I have ghost 2003. |
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haertig
join:2000-12-31
Broomfield, CO
| Not sure what you mean by "convert". Do you want to "un-ghost" the image back into it's original contents and then burn those contents to a CD? If so, just use Ghost to restore the image to a spare partition and then use whatever burning program you want to create your CD.
You won't need much spanning capability to hold a 6Mb image on a CD. You should be able to put over 100 of that sized image on a typical CD. (You probably meant Gb, not Mb!) |
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niel4more5
join:2002-03-09
Chesterfield, MO | reply to niel4more5
Clarification....6.0 GB
I don't want to restore that image yet. I want to be able to burn the image to cd-r and then clone it to another pc in a remote location. |
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haertig
join:2000-12-31
Broomfield, CO
| In theory, you should be able to split up your current image into chunks that will fit on CD's, transport them, reassemble them into the original image files, then use Ghost to restore. But I'm guessing that the "reassemble them into the original image files" is the part you don't want to have to do. You'd need some spare harddisk space to accomplish that task.
I think by default Ghost will break up an image into 2Gb sized chunks (so your current 6Gb image is probably one .gho file and two additional .ghs files) These would fit intact on DVD's for shipping/restore at remote locations, but not on CD's. When you create an image you can tell Ghost what size chunks you want, but I forget the command line option to do this. It should be in the manual (or maybe if you type "ghost.exe -?") I think you will probably need to recreate your image specifying 650-700 Mb chunks, and then burn each individual chunk to a CD. Or instruct Ghost to image directly to CD in the first place, and it will span appropriately. |
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niel4more5
join:2002-03-09
Chesterfield, MO
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argh.....the original computer is now in a very remote location so I cannot redo the image (to cd or HD). I have only the 6 GB image on a portable usb drive.......BUT the comp I want to clone does not want to read the usb drive....so I thought to convert it to cd-r if possible. |
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haertig
join:2000-12-31
Broomfield, CO
| Is the problem that you are trying to use Ghost from DOS, and you can't read your USB external drive from DOS?
If so, there might be some options (I have not personally tried any of these):
»www.theinquirer.net/?article=10215
»www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm
»www.stefan2000.com/darkehorse/PC···ers/USB/
»www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/f···447.html
»radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.c···95438251
These all came up by searching Google for "usb drivers for dos" |
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