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Title: Creating image of my hard drive using ghost 10
Post by AThom10731 on Apr 13^th, 2007 at 7:16pm

My hard drive seems to be acting flaky therefore I would like to burn image of my hard drive to bootble CDs/DVD. I have Ghost 10 and Ghost 2003. I only have one hard drive.
Can anyone help? I have installed Ghost 10 but do not see any clear instructions in the manual.
Thanks! :)

Title: Re: Creating image of my hard drive using ghost 10
Post by Rama on Apr 13^th, 2007 at 7:31pm

AThom10731 wrote on Apr 13^th, 2007 at 7:16pm:

Probably the most efficient way is to get a second hard drive and clone the bad drive to it. It looks like the HD will fail soon.

Rama

Title: Re: Creating image of my hard drive using ghost 10
Post by Pleonasm on Apr 13^th, 2007 at 8:49pm

AThom10731, please see chapter 5 (page 45+) in the Norton Ghost 10 User's Guide. You can create and store the recovery point (aka image) on the same drive you are backing up – and then burn the image to DVD discs; or, burn the image directly to DVD discs. The latter would probably be the better path in your case.

Please reply with any questions you may have.

Title: Re: Creating image of my hard drive using ghost 10
Post by AThom10731 on Apr 15^th, 2007 at 6:57pm

When you save the recovery point files to CD/DVD, are there other steps I need to take to make the CD/DVD bootable?

At work, I received a bootable CD set for one of my PCs with a ghost.exe file. I install the new hard drive, boot to the CD and run ghost.exe to load the new hard drive with the image files.

Title: Re: Creating image of my hard drive using ghost 10
Post by NightOwl on Apr 15^th, 2007 at 7:22pm

AThom10731

Quote:

At work, I received a bootable CD set for one of my PCs with a ghost.exe file.

That would be for the older Ghost version that is DOS based--you can not use that Ghost program with Ghost 10's image files--totally different approach--Ghost 10 must run under Windows or some variant.

Your Ghost 10 installation disc is also your bootable *Recovery Disk*--it loads WinPE (Pre-installation Envirionment) that Ghost 10 can run under--you recover from within that Windows interface.

Title: Re: Creating image of my hard drive using ghost 10
Post by AThom10731 on Apr 19^th, 2007 at 7:35pm

I have not had any luck with creating the restore point on my existing hard drive. Is a second partition necessary? I have approx 10GB of used space on my drive.
Thanks for your help.
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