while i own the program, got 5.1 from symantec,
i have yet to use it, but their is a few things you need to know before using
it
nick has used it, version 5 and 4.5.
version 4.5 had a text interface, 5 is a dos gui.
so as you have discovered version 5 has a command line prompt.
you need to decide before doing a image of the disk, do you want to use
compression, a feature that ghost has over drive image, though the new drive
image now has it they got rid of command line prompt except in their 500 dollar
version
another question you need to ask is do you want to use sector to sector.
when using sector to sector one does this at the low level of the hard drive,
similar to the old dos program spin right.
because it 2works at the low level it takes longer, and the only reason to do
this would be in my opinion is to make a boot disk.
the copy will be an exact duplicate to the original in every way.
unfortunately ghost does not support the ability to write directly to the cd
rom burner.
drive image does, but unfortunately the blind can not use the new version.
using the sector to sector method i screwed up a harddrive one time, and the
tech support at quantum said that
drive image did screw up many a harddrive, the solution is to start with a
brand new subsurface by doing a low level format.
so be aware that this program can mess things up and back up before using.
also acording to nick who does not use sector to sector, in addition he uses
the compression as well to back up to the d drive, then he uses the adaptec
software to make his boot disk.
he can restore the system from the cd rom, and in addition the non sector to
sector works and allows him to boot.
ghost tec support told me that
the non sector to sector starts out actually using the sector to sector to copy
the boot record on the harddrive.
for the lay person, when any computer that uses i b m and microsoft operateing
systems, when the computer is first turn on the computer has just enough code
to tell it to look on the a floppy for a certain file at an exact location, and
if it can not find it their to then go to the c drive and look in a exact
location on that drive.
hence the term booting up.
so ghost in either mode according to their tec support should make sure that
such critical files are copied
to the new drive in the exact same location so the computer can find it.
the fact the p c looks for the boot also explains virus transmission on floppy
disk, because the computer looks on the floppy first.
now with all that said, i think nick has only used the single user version.
same here.
are you wanting to use the version that supports multi casting?
hope this helps a little.
by the way sector to sector can only be done at the command line prompt and not
through the text 4.5 interface or the 5 dos gui interface.
by the way they might be willing to let you have a copy of 4.5.
go to the web page.
www.ghost.com
bill cameron
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>Hello,
> Has anyone used ghost drive imager with jfw? I'm trying to use it in
>commandline mode to re-image about ten pc's for work.
>Extreme urgency!
>Thanks.
>Dave.
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