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Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations
Reply #195 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:36pm

Dan Goodell wrote on Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:27pm:

bill is probably referring to this note.Bear in mind that was written back when an OS image could still fit on a DVD!

That was the ONE!! :) THank you Dan!!

And that is a good idea: when updating my backedup images, move the old ones to optical (makes for a great catastrophic disaster recovery plan), and then save the new ones.

But it looks like in my case, Ghost won't do me so good, as the recent activity brought so poignantly to the forefront.

Luckily the BING images are fine for what I need (although, yeah, that took a whopping 27G of storage... already looking forward to BING2.0!!

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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #196 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:44pm Bill, how much larger were the BING images than the Ghost images?
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #197 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:50pm It's not an apples to apples comparison, since I set the Ghost images to maximum compression. With that said, the Ghost Images took up about 8G or so.
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #198 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:52pm bill wrote on Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:36pm: And that is a good idea:when updating my backedup images, move the old ones to optical Bill, 2 GB splits in BING might suit you better than 4 GB.
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #199 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 5:00pm Good idea. 4G should be fine, eh. A dvd is good for ~ 8G. But, if I'm wrong, seems easy enough to fix: re-image using 2Gb splits. Especially if moving to a network backup drive.
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Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations
Reply #200 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 5:02pm

In your old system the partitions contained this much data...

XP 10 GB
Vista 16 GB
Win 7 10.5 GB

Total of 36.5 GB. Now you have an extra Win XP OS.

Even so, imaging 36.5 GB of data could not have yielded 8 GB of images. My guess is 20 GB + using Maximum compression with Ghost. Are you sure?

I've never seen Maximum compression do better than 55%.

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Reply #201 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 9:27pm

Y'know... I'm not entirely sure... I didn't re-check before I deleted the Ghost backups, but it could've been the 2 XP images came to 8Gb rather than all 4. And just got stuck in my head incorrectly (like the size of a DVD - 4G vice 8G).

However, it's a moot point at this juncture - since Ghost can't but BING can. :)

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Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations
Reply #202 - Apr 5^th, 2010 at 4:06pm

Brian wrote on Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:32pm:

Dan, I like to do this in BING from the View MBR, Edit Sig choice.

Yeah, nice feature, so of course BING would have a way to do it. SecEdit has the advantage, though, of allowing you to edit as ascii, while AFAIK BING only does hex.

And I still like Ghost 2003 because 1440MB splits fit better on a DVD than 2GB splits.

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Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations
Reply #203 - Apr 6^th, 2010 at 2:19pm

Brian wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2010 at 12:55pm:

select the partition containing the image. Click Image, Restore from file in the dialog box. OK. Double click the folder that contains the image, select the image, OK. Select the partition you want restored, click Paste, Yes. Name it, OK. Select validate if you want it.

Worked like a charm! I'm set. It's backing up, restoring, no problems.

Guys, you did it!! Thank you both for all the killer info, tips, tricks, how-to's and Dan, especially for all the knowledge base you shared!

Made my day.

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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #204 - Apr 6^th, 2010 at 3:51pm And BING can fit on a floppy. It's hard to believe it can do so many things. Good to hear it's all working.
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #205 - Apr 6^th, 2010 at 4:21pm Sure is.. thank you again for all you've done (floppy? what's that?? is it like a soft sided CD? ) Hat's off to y'all!
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