problems installing ghost

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In win 2000 normally the computer has to connect to the server. I have the
computer here not in its office. I need to ghost/mirror/copy the disk to a
new larger disk and have it bootable. Being inexperianced with this I
thought Ghost would be the way but the windows installer will not let me
because it can't get to the server.
Is there a way around this? Or should I be doing this differently?
Loretta
 
Loretta said:
In win 2000 normally the computer has to connect to the server. I have the
computer here not in its office. I need to ghost/mirror/copy the disk to a
new larger disk and have it bootable. Being inexperianced with this I
thought Ghost would be the way but the windows installer will not let me
because it can't get to the server.
Is there a way around this? Or should I be doing this differently?
Loretta
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try

http://www.xxclone.com/
 
Steve said:
try

http://www.xxclone.com/
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I've heard XXCLONE suggested before and I'm impressed with their clean,
uncluttered web site. However, it must be purchased for $40.

You need to think about whether it does what you need. XXClone and
Drive Copy (or is it Drive Image) copy file-by-file and the result is
*NOT* an "image". However, you get an automatic file compaction if the
destination partition is blank at the start, but it can trip if the
source partition has file structure errors. NB: Defragmenting not only
compacts but optimizes the file positions based on frequency of access.

Other partition back up schemes copy block-by-block without regard to
file structure. It can't trip, just read-a-block, write-a-block.
Because it doesn't know anything about files, it can't optimize by
copying only the files which have changed since the most recent backup.
Also, there are occasional (very rare) copy protection schemes that
involve physical disk addresses; consequently, these must be copied by a
block-at-a-time copier.
 
Thank you, XXClone worked
Loretta
Stubby said:
I've heard XXCLONE suggested before and I'm impressed with their clean,
uncluttered web site. However, it must be purchased for $40.

You need to think about whether it does what you need. XXClone and Drive
Copy (or is it Drive Image) copy file-by-file and the result is *NOT* an
"image". However, you get an automatic file compaction if the destination
partition is blank at the start, but it can trip if the source partition
has file structure errors. NB: Defragmenting not only compacts but
optimizes the file positions based on frequency of access.

Other partition back up schemes copy block-by-block without regard to file
structure. It can't trip, just read-a-block, write-a-block. Because it
doesn't know anything about files, it can't optimize by copying only the
files which have changed since the most recent backup.
Also, there are occasional (very rare) copy protection schemes that
involve physical disk addresses; consequently, these must be copied by a
block-at-a-time copier.
Click to expand...
 
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