Best way to create a network drive to a laptop domain member forimaging

  • Thread starter Thread starter Jerry Paquette
  • Start date Start date
J

Jerry Paquette

My daughter has an old PII with the system drive way too full. I'd like
to image the system drive and the slave to my laptop then reverse the
master-slave configuration and restore the images but with the system
partition going on the larger drive (now master).

All this would be pretty straightforward if my laptop weren't a domain
member and if my daughter's internet provider weren't using a proxy
server arrangement that makes authentication into the domain impossible.

I would normally simply use Bart's boot disk to create network drives to
a couple of shared folders on the laptop and then use Ghost to do the
imaging and restoring (I do this sort of thing all the time at home when
I make backup images of my laptop).

The problem, of course, is that MSClient on Bart's BD can't get
authenticated by my domain server so I can't mount a network drive to a
folder on my laptop.

Is there any solution to this other than removing my laptop temporarily
from the domain--which I don't want to do because everything is working
splendidly on my laptop at the moment?
 
Jerry Paquette said:
My daughter has an old PII with the system drive way too full. I'd like
to image the system drive and the slave to my laptop then reverse the
master-slave configuration and restore the images but with the system
partition going on the larger drive (now master).

All this would be pretty straightforward if my laptop weren't a domain
member and if my daughter's internet provider weren't using a proxy
server arrangement that makes authentication into the domain impossible.

I would normally simply use Bart's boot disk to create network drives to
a couple of shared folders on the laptop and then use Ghost to do the
imaging and restoring (I do this sort of thing all the time at home when
I make backup images of my laptop).

The problem, of course, is that MSClient on Bart's BD can't get
authenticated by my domain server so I can't mount a network drive to a
folder on my laptop.

Is there any solution to this other than removing my laptop temporarily
from the domain--which I don't want to do because everything is working
splendidly on my laptop at the moment?
Click to expand...

Here are two recipes to do this:
1. Back up your important files.
2. Repartition your slave disk: Create a primary partition at the beginning
of the disk that is a little larger than your current master disk.
3. Image the master disk to this new partition.
4. Disconnect the master disk.
5. Make the slave disk a master disk, and reboot. Win2000 should work OK.
6. Connect the old master as a slave.
7. Move your data and resize your partitions as desired.

My preferred method is slightly different:
1. Back up your important files.
2. Image the master disk to a borrowed disk.
3. Test the system with the borrowed disk.
4. Image slave disk to the master disk.
5. Image the borrowed disk to the slave disk.
6. Reverse the master/slave relationship.
 
Back
Top