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Norton Ghost 2003 - help

Discussion in 'Other PC Software' started by SteveS, 2004/08/03.

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    SteveS

    SteveS Inactive Thread Starter

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    Right i have a home pc. i have a server,
    i want to make a copy of the home pc on to the server
    when need be restore the home pc with that image from the server (networked)

    im sure this can be done but i cant work it out, to create a copy of the home pc you have to install norton ghost, but i dont want it in the image.

    anyone shead some lights on this, am i just being v stupid? :confused:
     
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    You don't need to have Ghost installed on the system to create and/or restore an Image. You only need the proper Ghost Boot Disks for imaging over a network and then work from the GBDs.

    The catch is that You need to install Ghost to create the GBDs but You can uninstall it afterwards.

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    SteveS

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    I have Norton Ghost installed on my server, i have created a boot floppy?
    so i stick the floppy in home pc, reboot and ill have options to copy to server?
     
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    I've never created or restored an Image over a network but if You use the Ghost Boot Wizard to create a Peer-to-Peer Network Boot Disk, then it should work.

    May I suggest a visit to Radified where You'll find the best Ghost Guide on the web and a Forum with people who have "been there ".

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    My understanding (and experience) is that Ghost 2003 won't work with, or Ghost a server OS like W2K or W2k3 server. Ghost corporate is needed for a server ghosting or ghosting from within the server OS. Ghosting a server partition from within XP still won't work, and vice versa.
     
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    He does not want to ghost the serevr, he wants to ghost his workstation and save the IMG or GHO file to the server drive.

    Norton Ghost 2003 can be used to create the ghost boot disks needed to ghost the workstation. Two floppy duisks will be needed in order to have networking supported. TCP protocol with NETBIOS bound to it MUST be used for the network ghosting process.

    I suggest the easy alernative of making a regular ONE ghost boot disk and saving it to another partition on the workstation, or if your CD burner is supported by Ghost, save the IMG there directly. Once burned to a CDR or another partition, the IMG can be transferred to the server.
     
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    can i install the image onto the home pc (workstation) over network from the server?
    thats how they do it at my company, stick in a netboot cd and restart drags image down and done.
     
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    when i create a boot disk and put it in, reboot, it says non system disk. so er why :confused:
     
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