Cold Imaging in Norton Ghost v15

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Hi I recently upgraded from Ghost v11.5 Corporate which we used to clone pcs for redeployment etc to Norton Ghost v15.

 

I want to do a cold image of the pc by booting into the cd as before and cloning the hard drive which in turn used to create .GHO file (ghost file)

 

The only thing I can seem do do when I boot off of the v15 cd is 'backup my computer' which backs up files and creates a restore point (not really what im after)

 

Anyone know how to do this in v15? am I using the right suite? I know its possible if i install the suite somewhere but didn't want to have to do that, it was so easy in the old version to just clone a pc using the disk and an external drive, the only reason we upgraded was because you didn't have the usb support in the old one once newer external drivers were coming out.

 

Many Thanks

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A55ureweb wrote:

 

I want to do a cold image of the pc by booting into the cd as before and cloning the hard drive which in turn used to create .GHO file (ghost file)

 

What Ghost 15 calls a "restore point" is really a system image.  Rather then the DOS based .gho file it is now a .v2i file.

So if you boot to the CD and create a .v2i image of the system you are doing the same thing as you stated above, it's just in a different image format.

 

Dave

 

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Also note that you are going from an enterprise product to a consumer product.

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Red has a good point.

The better solution would be to use your Ghost 11.5 running from a Windows PE disk rather than DOS.  Then as long as the PE disk has the necessary drivers you have nothing to worry about and running in a windows 32 bit enviroment is more efficient than DOS.

 

For an example of that, Go to the system you have Ghost solution suite installed on and find the Ghost32.exe file and copy it to a flash drive.

Boot the system with the Ghost 15 disk and have the flash drive plugged in.

Then go to: Analyze > Explore my computer and note the drive letter of the flash drive

Then go to: Utilities > open a command prompt

Type in:  X:\ghost32.exe

(replacing X with the letter of the flash drive).

 

You will see that your now running the windows version of Ghost 11.5, and you can use it just like you did in DOS.

If that will work for you the solution suite gives you instuctions and a way to create a PE disk with Ghost32 on it.

 

Dave

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Hi Guys many thanks for your suggestions,

 

Dave you solution worked great, the problem before was that I could get it to load the drivers for my OMEGA external hard drive but this way works thanks.

 

Any idea where you would create the disk from within the solution suite?

 

Many Thanks

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It's a coincidence you asked, I reloaded the trial today to test something.

it's under the boot disk wizzard.

 

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH110134&locale=en_US

 

This topic at the connect forum has some good info too.

http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/how-get-started-ghost-solution-suite-25-boot-disks-and-ghostcast-server

 

I remember it being a lot easier than how it looks in that KB aricle.

Dave

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Got one burnt to DVD yesterday and is working great, thanks again for your help.