I am running Ghost 9.0. I want to make a system copy(MBR, system files, everything else) of my hard drive. Whenever I try I get a message that says that I cannot do this while Windows is running. I boot up in the "The Recovery Disk" but there does not appear to be a place where I can make a copy of the disk. Am I missing something?

IRHere2,

Where are you creating the copy?

I am coping from C: to D:

Where is D: drive? Same HD? Another HD? External HD?

How large is C: drive?
How large is D: drive? Does D: drive contain data?

C: is a 70M drive and D: is a 40M drive. C: has about 15M used up in files.  I have formatted D: to be sure that it is clean. I have a two drive system. I am currently running Windows 2000 Pro.

IRHere2,

Even though you only have 15 GB in your C: drive, the 40 GB HD is probably not large enough to contain the data.

http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/notes.htm#15

See "Why won't 5GB of data clone to a 10GB partition?"

If you need a backup, you should be using images rather than a clone.

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1132968474;start=7#7

Any questions?

What I am trying to do is make a duplicate C: drive for backup purposes. I have had to reload my system so many time, because of windows crashes, that I would like to do it this way so if anything does happens I can just get a few updates and be back in business ASAP.

Kurtis,

You should be using Ghost 9 images for that purpose. As explained in Dan's post. Store them on your second HD.

When Windows crashes you restore an image using the Ghost 9 Recovery CD. Back to normal in 5 to 10 minutes. No need to open the computer case as you would have to do with a clone.

I read the post about using images. If I understand what it is saying then I can make full backups( system files,and everything else), although this may not be practical, and if anything happens I can restore my C: drive to what it looked like before the crash?

Kurtis wrote on Apr 27^th, 2008 at 9:30pm:

and if anything happens I can restore my C: drive to what it looked like before the crash?

Yes. Yes. Yes.


Kurtis wrote on Apr 27^th, 2008 at 9:30pm:

although this may not be practical

It is easy and practical. Particularly if you use Incremental images. You are always up to date.

Thank you for the help. This has cleared up a lot of things. Thank you again for the help.

Ghost 9 is still one of my favourite backup apps.

This is how you restore an image.


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Boot to the Ghost CD Set the Time Zone Advanced Recovery Tasks System Restore dot in Restore drives          ,Next dot in Single drive            ,Next Browse to your image file      ,Next Select a destination           ,Next tick Verify backup tick Check for file system errors after restore tick Resize drive to fill unallocated space (Y or N) Will be greyed out if partition is correct size tick Set drive active (for booting OS) tick Restore MBR (for a new HD) Next tick Reboot after finish Finish Check computer clock after OS boots. May be out by an hour or two.