Looks like you posted to everyone you could think of ;-)
1) Install Ghost 2003 on both systems
2) Make sure you have assigned IP addresses to both systems. For example you
could make the Win 98 system 192.168.1.10 and the Windows XP system
192.168.1.20. Subnet on both systems is 255.255.255.0 and Default Gateway on
both is the IP of your router which I assume is 192.168.1.1
3) Make sure both systems share the same workgroup name. I use MSHOME on
both systems.
4) Turn off any firewall protection you might have enabled on either machine
5) Make sure File sharing is enabled on both systems.
6) Make sure that you share the C drive on both systems.
7) Both computers must be able to see each other and access each others C
drive through Network Neighbourhood/My Network Places .
8) On each machine ensure that you Map the C Drive for the other system.
So you should now be able to open My Computer on either system and see a
Mapped Drive of the other system which you can double click to open and you
should be able to transfer files between the two.
Lets start with the Win98 system first because.
1) Start Ghost 2003
2) Select Backup
3)Source will be your C drive
4)Destination is set as "File"
5) Browse to the Mapped Drive on your XP System
6)Enter appropriate name eg. GHOST_98 and click Next
7)Click "Advanced button"
8)select Mapped Drive Tab
9)select Static IP and enter 192.168.1.10 (or the IP you used for the Win98
system) also enter your subnet, gateway and your DNS address or leave that
one blank. Ensure you key in the workgroup name MSHOME
10) select Ghost Command Line Tab and key in the commands without the quote
marks "-split=700 -autoname -z9"
where -split=700 is the size of segments to create in MBs; -autoname will
simply number the segments as 001,002,003 etc; and -z9 will set maximum
compression but you can use 1 through 9 as you wish for different
compression ratios)
11) Click Apply and OK out then click Next
12) Finally click Run Now and OK to reboot the system
13 Ghost will restart your system in a minute and will prompt you for your
XP password. Supply if you have one or press Enter to leave blank .
So if you've set this up correctly, and this works because I am doing it as
I type this for you, you should be able to open you C drive on your XP
system and see the Ghost image file being created. Press F5 to refresh and
you will see the file getting larger .
Once the image is created and Ghost has booted back to the Desktop on the
Windows 98 system you are now ready to create your bootable image.
First you need a bootable floppy with CD-Rom drivers. Download this image
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/tools/ghostbt.exe and double click with a
floppy in the drive to create a bootable floppy with CD-Rom and mouse
support. It has an autoexec that will automatically run Ghost once the
Ghost.exe file is in place. Next copy the files called GHOST.EXE and
GHOST.ENV from your computer located at "C:\Program Files\Symantec\Norton
Ghost 2003" to it.
You need third party CD burning software. I suggest Nero but any CD Burning
software that can create a bootable CD will work. You can download Nero from
www.nero.com and the demo is fully functional for 30 days. The bootable CD
it creates has no time out.
1) Pop the above created floppy into the A drive on the Windows XP system
2)Start Nero-Burning Rom and select option to Cancel Wizard.
3)From the left screen scroll to Select CD-Rom (Boot).
4)The next screen should have selected "Bootable logical drive (must fit on
CD!) and show A:/1MB
5)Make no changes just click Next
6) You are at the main Nero screen which is like an Explorer window. From
the Right screen locate and expand C
7) Drag the first in the ghost image series you created it should be called
GHOST98.GHO to the left pane under IS01
8)Click File->Write CD
This creates the first disk in the set. It is bootable.
Following this use Nero to once again create Data CD but you don't have to
make subsequent disks bootable. Just drag GHOST98.001 to create the next
disk and so forth.
Make sure you label the disk in sequence. When you go to restore just ensure
that you computer boots from the CD-Rom and start with the first disk. It
will boot to Ghost.
1)Select Disk->From Image
2)Select Source as the location of the CD-Rom drive and highlight your
GHOST98.GHO file
3) Select Destination as the default on a one partition system
4) When prompted you will need to pop in the next CD of the image set.
5) When finished reboot and your system is restored
Because you have a CD Burner in your XP system you can simply have Ghost
save to CD-RW rather than file and you don't have to go through the rest. It
will create the first disk as bootable. However if you want to you can
simply repeat the above substituting the static IP address as 192.168.1.20
as in #9 above.
I hope this is clear. Good luck.
--
Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
Eric said:
I am trying to use Norton Ghost 2003 to create images of both my hard
drives. One system is new, WinXP Pro, and the other is older, Win98 SE. I
have a D-Link router to share my interent connections, and to also share
files between the two systems. I have been playing around with this program
forever and all I get is one error message after another. I only have a
CD-RW drive on my new computer and I don't want to partition the hard drives
on either computer. So, the problems are as follows...
1. Creating an image of the older, Win98SE computer. If I could save the
image to the hard drive, I could then transfer it to my other computer and
burn it to a cd.
2. I would like to create a bootable cd for both images. I would like to
be able to simply put the cds in the drive, restart, and have my system
restored. Is this possible?
If either of these is possible, please provide detailed instructions! I
would really appreciate it!!!
Thanks
Eric Fehlhaber
(e-mail address removed)
