Re: ReInstall

George W. Barrowcliff wrote:
My IBM T30 would boot to the splash screen and the progress bar would get
to right above the M in Microsoft, then blue screen of death.
I could not get by this.

I ended up reinstalling Win2k, then getting 4 service packs followed by
IE
6.0, Adobe reader, display & audio drivers from IBM, reinstalling the
wireless adapter, Norton Antivirus, etc, etc, & etc.
What a job.
Now I am motivated to make a recovery CD with GHOST. I have the current
version but never got around to reading the book.

Question: Can Ghost make a bootable recovery CD like the one that came
with my tower which will produce a system just like it came out of the
box? I would like to make one with the current configuration which would
allow me to skip all the downloads and pick up where it is now.

If so, any help would be appreciated.

TIA

My experience of Ghost is that you get a complete mirror of what the current
config is at the point of Ghost creation, and a boot floppy to boot into to
replicate the drive.

What I do is create a Ghost image of my laptop on my desktop PC, I use a
cheap adaptor I got from ebay to connect the laptops hard drive to the PC's
IDE connectors. Then if the laptops drive ever fails I can connect another
to the PC and after 30 mins or so plug the new drive into the laptop and be
nack up and running.

I also have a script that runs that copies my email/My Documents and
Favourites to a usb memory key/hdd. This is scheduled to run 3 times a day
via task scheduler. If the usb device isnt connected it does'nt do anything,
obviously, but when I plug the device it it makes a regular data back up.


--
Steve Parry BA(Hons) MCP MVP

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: ReInstall
    ... I ended up reinstalling Win2k, then getting 4 service packs followed by ... Now I am motivated to make a recovery CD with GHOST. ... laptop and be nack up and running. ... Steve Parry BAMCP MVP ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.general)
  • Re: Replacing Hard drive
    ... I haven't used Ghost since the 2003 version so I don't know if the problem ... partitions can be resized during the restore. ... else fails you can download the Ultimate Boot CD ... Laptop powered up, by the way I did select "copy master boot record" ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
  • Help setting up a refurbished Dell laptop
    ... I am setting up a refurbished Dell D600 Latitude laptop for my daughter. ... It has an Ethernet port and wireless card and I have added it successfully to my home network. ... I am required to make my own recovery images using Ghost which I am in the process of doing. ... In the windows mode I have full network transferability between the two computers, and I have a folder on my desktop mapped as a Z drive on the laptop to facilitate any transfers or even Ghost working over the network. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment)
  • Re: Files and transfer Cabling
    ... I can't proceed with laptop Ghosting. ... I use Ghost 9. ... Ghost CD to boot the laptop? ... but doing an "initialize" in XP Disk Management fixed that. ...
    (rec.outdoors.rv-travel)
Loading