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Old November 11th 09, 10:49 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
SlickRCBD[_3_]
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Default Ghosting a win98 machine

Is that the 1-disk version that decompresses to a RAMdisk or the 2-
disk version?
II should add that I'm two years out of date on my knowledge of Ghost,
and is this now freeware? I was under the impression when I worked for
the company that it was an expensive commercial program.
On Nov 9, 6:51 pm, 98 Guy wrote:
CTC IT Mgr wrote:
Is there any software out there that would allow me to ghost a
win98 machine?


Norton Ghost 2003.

Available on Hiren's boot cd:

http://www.hirensbootcd.net/

You can download this torrent file which will let you make a
floppy-bootable version of Ghost (this is the way I use Ghost):

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/343...003_-_BOOT_FLO...

I find that the easiest and fastest way to clone a drive is to have he
source drive as Drive-0 and connect the destination drive as Drive-1.
The destination drive is a blank hard drive (or one that you don't care
if it gets over-written).

Configure your bios boot order so that the floppy drive is the first
boot device, and then boot the PC from the ghost floppy disk. Follow
the instructions and let Ghost clone the source drive to the destination
drive. After it's done, disconnect the destination drive and do with it
what you want. Reconnect your CD-drive (if it was connected originally
as Drive-1) and you're done.

This will clone FAT-32 and NTFS drives. You can make an exact clone of
a win-XP drive this way.

Typical copy speed is about 500 to 1,500 mb/min (depends on motherboard
and hard-drive performance).