Norton Ghost ?

[TBoone]

Hi Ya\'ll I\'m a Newbie to this form and so far have enjoyed my visits: Were upgrading all our putters here Offshore and was wondering about Norton Ghost, a program that\'s used to make a image of the original hard drive and copying to CD\'s to reload in case you crash. My question before this forum is: If you have Win 98 on the old putter, and want to copy that image to the new putter that has Win ME or XP. Would there be any conflict, I mean would the new putter think it\'s the old one? NO LAFFING  HE HE   Honest Question!
Thanks In Advance!
TBoone

LIFE IS GOOD!

[rdc]

If you copy a drive image from one computer to another , you transfer your drive to another drive on another computer .
You as well transfer your operating system and all hardware installations from one computer to another with other hardware .This isn\'t possible .
If you have two identical computers and copy image from C:
to C: on the other computer ok .

[wizard2010]

If i get waht your saying...

Norton Ghost will copy the image of the from the Pc with windows 98 on it.

I\'m assuming that your going to be backing up data rarther than the operating system (C:). So you would image drive D: with data on it..

The only issues that you would have was to make sure the paths were the same on the newer computer.
D: drive to D: Drive.

Mabey the question above want worded right... or you may not quite understand the \"Image\"... so...

If you old computer has win 98 on it and you place the image onto the newer pc there shouldnt realy be any problems, except that putting the win 98 image onto the newer computer writes over the existing operating system...
So Win xp would not exist anymore and your win 98 image would be in its place...

Problems may occur with hardware issues if you were trying to put an image from the newer machine with newer hardware on to the older machine...

And the final answer...
The newer computer would know that it was now a windows 98 operating system....

Are you trying to create a dual boot system where you have win 98 & Win xp on the same computer ?

Hope it helps....

Just zeros & ones

[TBoone]

Sorry about not explaining very well, But from what I get after talking to you guy\'s I need to maybe upgrade the old computer to the same OS as the new one and everything should come out fine, Well Maybe!

LIFE IS GOOD!

[rdc]

If you make a drive image with Norton ghost from drive D with an OS on it , and you copy this image to drive D of another computer with the same OS on drive D (You drive on the other computer must be at least the same size of the drive of the image) then , you still have other hardware on the second computer and the image will have compatibility problems.
An Image of drive D with an OS on it , you can use to make an exact copy of your drive D on the date of the image is taken , or if you replace your drive D with a new bigger drive D , and to copy the image of the former drive D on.
It is a very good program and it does what it is supposed to do.

[Josetann]

I will assume there is only one drive in each PC, and that is the drive you are backing up.

Yes, you can restore the image from computer A onto computer B instead (you want to have the same size hard drive if you can btw).  Computer B will now act as though you took computer A\'s drive out and are booting it in computer B now.  So yes, both computers would now have the same OS.

Only problem, as they said several times above, is that Windows98 was setup for computer A.  If you try to boot it in computer B you could have problems.  If you do this, I would delete the part of the registry that has all the info about your hardware (can anyone tell me where this is again?) and let it redetect everything from scratch.  This should be good enough for you to use.

[TBoone]

Sure does\'nt look like I\'m going to be able to get all my files from my old putter to a new one thats bigger all the way around. Speed, hard drive, memory and I\'m sure another OS as well.
   Thanks guys for the help!

LIFE IS GOOD!

[Josetann]

Why not?  If you just need the files, copy them individually to a cd.  Or take the whole drive out, put it on your new pc, and copy any files over you need.  You can\'t restore some programs like this (stuff like MS Office needs to actually be installed on your PC, can\'t just copy the directory from another PC) but any documents, pictures, etc. will be fine.

[TBoone]

I\'ve got an external burner coming also and I\'ve only got 4.0 GB to copy so I\'ll just copy to CD and put on new one. It wo\'nt take me to long. I\'ll be able to set up both systems and work them @ the same time.
  Thanks for the help Ya\'ll !
TBoone

LIFE IS GOOD!

[Anonymous]

Hi, Can someone please explain to me how to create an image my c and d drive.
please?

Thanks.

[rdc]

With Norton ghost you can make  compressed and high compressed  image files of a partition or a whole harddisk .
You must have another hardisk to create the image (or 2 images) on , or you can span the images over cdroms .
I have a high compressed image of C:: 1,25 gb and a high compressed  image of D: 1,4gb on my drive E . I have allready recovered several times from  a ghost image ,and never got into trouble .


To know others is wisdom !
To know yourself is enlightenment !

[tmiles]

Another option to Ghosting is to move the files over.  As some had expressed, a burner, ZIP drive, and or LapLink could work.  I also ran across a nifty USB transfer program USB-USB data bridge at tcwo.com that moves files across using the USB port.  While not the fastest, it took about a 1/2 hour to move all my files over (still had to install MS office, etc)

Hope this helps

[rdc]

I have worked with ZIP drives and  JAZ dirives , but Then you will need a lot of zip disks  and 1-2 jaz  drives to copy a drive .
There\'s a change some files will not be copied , I prefer Norton Ghost .It is much more secure , and for what it costs , it\'s not expensive at all  . At least you may rest in peace


To know others is wisdom !
To know yourself is enlightenment !

[Anonymous]

Use DISK to IMAGE to copy the entire hard drive to a single image (all partitions) use PARTITION to IMAGE to capture a single partition or drive letter. Be sure to run ghost/? to learn about all the available options that do not show up in the gui version.