Drive Image 7

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I've been using ghost to create and restore ghost images from one pc to
another via a USB cable and using ghost boot disks with usb support.

I'd like to switch to Drive Image 7 to accomplish the same task. I can't
find anything in their documentation or website to indicate that they
support this. I do see that they support images to usb burners, etc but
that's it.

Can someone confirm if this is possible and if it is as straightforward as
ghost?

Thanks
 
a:\ said:
I've been using ghost to create and restore ghost images from one pc
to another via a USB cable and using ghost boot disks with usb
support.

I'd like to switch to Drive Image 7 to accomplish the same task. I
can't find anything in their documentation or website to indicate
that they support this. I do see that they support images to usb
burners, etc but that's it.

Can someone confirm if this is possible and if it is as
straightforward as ghost?

Thanks
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I'd like to switch to Drive Image 7 to accomplish the same task. I
can't find anything in their documentation or website to indicate
that they support this. I do see that they support images to usb
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You mean Drive Image 7.0 plus the use of USB supporting boot disks? No,
Drive Image 7.0 is shipped on a bootable CD enabling you to restore your
images by running a Windows PE based recovery environment (PQRE) with native
USB 1.1/2.0/FireWire and network support. No disk since Drive Image 7.0 has
no DOS relation at all <thank God>

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What I meant was can Drive Image make an image of one pc and save it to
another pc that is connected to the first pc via USB cable? Can it also
restore from another pc via a USB cable

No,
 
a:\ said:
What I meant was can Drive Image make an image of one pc and save it
to another pc that is connected to the first pc via USB cable? Can
it also restore from another pc via a USB cable
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one PC = The partition(s) that are on the *local* computer (on which Drive
Image 7.0 is installed)
It is not possible to set a remote PC as source

Another pc
Can it also restore from another pc via a USB cable
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You can save an image over the network though (domain, workgroup, p2p)

Source: Target:
Local PC Local, Network, CD/DVD

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Michael Kimmer

"Ein Tag an dem Du nicht lächelst ist ein verlorener Tag"
"Eine Nacht in der Du nicht schläfst ist eine verschlafene Nacht"
 
"a:\" said:
What I meant was can Drive Image make an image of one pc and
save it to another pc that is connected to the first pc via USB cable?
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Nope, not even ghost can do that, it needs a special USB cable for that.

Works fine over a network cable tho.
Can it also restore from another pc via a USB cable
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Nope. Same problem.
 
What I meant was can Drive Image make an image of one pc and
Nope, not even ghost can do that, it needs a special USB cable for that.
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That's what I was using for ghost, I had purchased a special USB cable to
connect two pcs. Worked great until I bought my new P4 2.6, 1 gig ram with
an intel Perl L mobo. The new pc doesn't recognize the USB cable, yet all
the older pcs (eg P3 733, p2 500) do. That's why I was hoping to use Drive
Image and use the special USB cable I spent $60 bucks on.
 
"a:\" said:
That's what I was using for ghost, I had purchased a special USB cable to
connect two pcs. Worked great until I bought my new P4 2.6, 1 gig ram with
an intel Perl L mobo. The new pc doesn't recognize the USB cable, yet all
the older pcs (eg P3 733, p2 500) do. That's why I was hoping to use Drive
Image and use the special USB cable I spent $60 bucks on.
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Support for that special cable is unique to ghost for that.

Cant you just use a network crossover cable between the PCs ?
The new PC would almost certainly have a builtin network card.

It would only cost peanuts to add a cheap one from ebay to the older PCs.
Use a PCI network card, they are a lot easier to install than older ones.
Select one from the list in Ghost and Drive Image, it can be quite tricky
to add network cards that arent natively supported with Ghost particularly.
Not so bad with DI as long as you are running DI7, but that needs XP etc
on the older PCs. While DI6 is on the CD and its not as hard to add
network card that isnt natively supported with DI6, its non trivial to do.
 
Cant you just use a network crossover cable between the PCs ?
The new PC would almost certainly have a builtin network card.
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That's a good idea. I forgot about this option...probably because I spent
so much on the USB cable. The crossover should work. Would I have to set
up shares on the pc that has the image files so that I can map over once
I've booted up with PQRE?
 
That's a good idea. I forgot about this option...probably because
I spent so much on the USB cable. The crossover should work.
Would I have to set up shares on the pc that has the image files
so that I can map over once I've booted up with PQRE?
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Yes you do with DI6 which you would need to
use unless you have XP running on the old PC.
DI6 is on the DI7 CD
 
dos drivers for network card..... this is really coming out to be a
big exercise. I have a dell desktop with onboard Broadcom NIC card and
though they have drivers for all OS from w95/98,NT, XP etc but not
dos.
I am using the ghost and require to be in dos.

In order to put the image to a remote host one requires NIC card
enabled in dos....
 
mark said:
dos drivers for network card..... this is really coming out to be a
big exercise. I have a dell desktop with onboard Broadcom NIC card and
though they have drivers for all OS from w95/98,NT, XP etc but not
dos.
I am using the ghost and require to be in dos.

In order to put the image to a remote host one requires NIC card
enabled in dos....
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Mark,

You are wrong; Boardcom does have dos drives for the NICs. Look at
http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php ... Look for Dos
NDIS2 for the 57xx and 4401

hope it helps,

Reinhard
 
i have located the dos drivers. how does one load these drivers ?
I included them in the dos bootup. next, how to get an IP for this NIC ?
 
mark said:
i have located the dos drivers. how does one load these drivers ?
I included them in the dos bootup. next, how to get an IP for this NIC ?
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Mark,

I have added the DOS drivers to Drive Images's list NIC drivers;
Then I let Drive Image to create the network boot disks itself. If you
want some network boot disks, go to www.bookdisk.com and look in the
network section.

hope it helps,

Reinhard
 
dos drivers for network card.....
this is really coming out to be a big exercise.
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Yeah, its one hell of a mess, particularly when
the NIC isnt natively supported by the imaging app.
I have a dell desktop with onboard Broadcom NIC card
and though they have drivers for all OS from w95/98,NT,
XP etc but not dos.
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Those are available from Broadcom.
I am using the ghost and require to be in dos.
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Thats the other problem, adding dos drivers
with ghost isnt for the faint hearted. You
really need to know what you are doing.
In order to put the image to a remote host
one requires NIC card enabled in dos....
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Yep.

One approach is to ignore the rather long winded approach
that ghost uses to make a network boot disk and to use one
of the much more user friendly network boot disks available.
Once that's booted, just run ghost from the normal non
network boot floppy that ghost produces.

www.bootdisk.com look at the network boot list a few lines down
from the top. Brad's is very easy to use if your NIC is supported.
Bart's is a bit more fiddly to setup but work very well.
 
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