Help me with Ghost

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 12:40 pm

Just hosed my system yesterday and this time i decided i want to make an image of just the bare essentials in case i do this again. I reformatted installed drivers and dl'd all windows updates. Now what do i have to do to make an image like this and can i burn that to a cd. And in case i needed to use it, how do i reghost? it and put everything back on. Sorry for the dumb ass ?'s but I ve never used it and want it to be right. THanks

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 1:00 pm

by reghosting i assume that you've already made a ghost image of the copy of installed windows you wanted? ... just boot up in DOS mode via a boot disk and launch ghost
choose drive from img and then it'll open a browser where you will then point to the *.GHO file that you made... and it will then restore the PC to that image
hope that helped

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 8:08 pm

what options should i check or should i?

Celery101 · Post by **Celery101** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 9:39 pm

don't need to change anything in the setting, just type "ghost -split=640(or 690 if you use 700mb cds)", just keep pressing enter at the insert next media prompt, it will split the image into 640 or 690mb for you to burn into cd.

Diggrr · Post by **Diggrr** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 12:54 am

One thing to add, there is a second executable in the Ghost directory that's about 300k. I copy it to the CD and make the CD bootable when I burn it. Then I don't have to insert anything else to run it.
Although the newest one I've seen uses a Ghost boot floppy. And by the way, If I choose the heavy compression just before making the image, it all fits on one CD (I'm sure XP is too big of an install to do this with though.)