w98se / xp pro / Norton ack-up strategy....

Now, supposing that after this weekend, and after visiting my brother in
Bournemouth, and supposing that I've miraculously mended his PC that won't
start up either W98se or XP Pro, and supposing that there's time to spare,
(what a joke!), ...if I slapped in a 2nd hard disk,
....(s**t! ..I think he's already got two in there...), ....anyway, I think
I shall do a bit of tweaking so that he can Norton Ghost his c: and d:
drives (W98se and xp pro), to a drive somewhere, for recovery should this
sort of thing happen again. (...should have done that for him ages ago).

....so my question, ....sort of, is :-

If I make him a boot W98se boot up cd, with Norton Gohst v7 on it, can
Norton ghost be batch file driven to do the job. (I've got the Norton *.pdf
manual in here somewhere which I'll read if I get a "Yes" in here :-),
and if so, can it be batched/automated without user intervention e.g. when I
ghost a drive - the first chunk is 1.99 GB (2,147,466,920 bytes), and I have
to tweak the filename for the second chunk ?

In other words, is it possible to knock-up a batchfile, to be run from a
bootup cd-r that'll Norton ghost specific drives to specific drives without
user intervention - particularly where occupied space on a given drive is
larger than 1.99gb's.

regards, Richard

When you create a master image to recordable CDs with
Ghost you restore it by using a boot floppy disk that runs
the CD, or you boot from the CD.

The newer versions of Ghost creates a bootable CD because
many new system no longer come with a floppy disk drive.

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
http://www.sharedbirthday.co.uk/

-----Original Message-----
Now, supposing that after this weekend, and after
visiting my brother in
Bournemouth, and supposing that I've miraculously mended
his PC that won't
start up either W98se or XP Pro, and supposing that
there's time to spare,
(what a joke!), ...if I slapped in a 2nd hard disk,
....(s**t! ..I think he's already got two in
there...), ....anyway, I think
I shall do a bit of tweaking so that he can Norton Ghost
his c: and d:
drives (W98se and xp pro), to a drive somewhere, for
recovery should this
sort of thing happen again. (...should have done that
for him ages ago).

....so my question, ....sort of, is :-

If I make him a boot W98se boot up cd, with Norton Gohst
v7 on it, can
Norton ghost be batch file driven to do the job. (I've
got the Norton *.pdf
manual in here somewhere which I'll read if I get a "Yes"
in here :-),
and if so, can it be batched/automated without user
intervention e.g. when I
ghost a drive - the first chunk is 1.99 GB (2,147,466,920
bytes), and I have
to tweak the filename for the second chunk ?

In other words, is it possible to knock-up a batchfile,
to be run from a
bootup cd-r that'll Norton ghost specific drives to
specific drives without
user intervention - particularly where occupied space on
a given drive is
larger than 1.99gb's.

regards, Richard


.

....I feel another application update coming on ! My version of ghost is old
? v7.0

regards, Richard


"Eric" wrote in message
...
When you create a master image to recordable CDs with
Ghost you restore it by using a boot floppy disk that runs
the CD, or you boot from the CD.

The newer versions of Ghost creates a bootable CD because
many new system no longer come with a floppy disk drive.

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
http://www.sharedbirthday.co.uk/

-----Original Message-----
Now, supposing that after this weekend, and after
visiting my brother in
Bournemouth, and supposing that I've miraculously mended
his PC that won't
start up either W98se or XP Pro, and supposing that
there's time to spare,
(what a joke!), ...if I slapped in a 2nd hard disk,
....(s**t! ..I think he's already got two in
there...), ....anyway, I think
I shall do a bit of tweaking so that he can Norton Ghost
his c: and d:
drives (W98se and xp pro), to a drive somewhere, for
recovery should this
sort of thing happen again. (...should have done that
for him ages ago).

....so my question, ....sort of, is :-

If I make him a boot W98se boot up cd, with Norton Gohst
v7 on it, can
Norton ghost be batch file driven to do the job. (I've
got the Norton *.pdf
manual in here somewhere which I'll read if I get a "Yes"
in here :-),
and if so, can it be batched/automated without user
intervention e.g. when I
ghost a drive - the first chunk is 1.99 GB (2,147,466,920
bytes), and I have
to tweak the filename for the second chunk ?

In other words, is it possible to knock-up a batchfile,
to be run from a
bootup cd-r that'll Norton ghost specific drives to
specific drives without
user intervention - particularly where occupied space on
a given drive is
larger than 1.99gb's.

regards, Richard


.

...WELL !!! hello, whoever may be keeping half an eye on this post ! I got
back from Bournemouth about three hours ago and have fully sorted out my
brothers machine, except for a fiddle with his swap file that I left half
finished !

I had done all the WRONG research, (based on his "on the 'phone" fault
descriptions) !!

First power up, first bios screen, I noticed that his cpu was showing as an
Athlon 1150 ...or something like that, so I hit the Del key and rummaged
through his bios. Several settings had altered - it looked a little like
the bios had defaulted to "basic" or "failsafe" settings ....I wonder if he
had something resting on the keyboard during start-up, when his trouble
started e.g. resting on the Function keys - including one which forces bios
to use "failsafe" settings ...I suppose I'll never know.

His "cpu pnp" settings were wrong i.e. 100/100 mhz , they should have been
133/133 mhz.
His onboard AC 97 sound chip was enabled, which his W98se and xp pro
wouldn't have liked because he's got an old SoundBlaster pci128v in a pci
slot ! ...that would account for the black screens at boot-up he
described, and xp pro detecting new hardware !
His AMR slot was enabled in bios - not needed because he has a pci hardware
modem in the box. ...several other settings were wrong.

Anyway, it's now showing the correct xp1800+ cpu at start-up. I ran
Seagate's hd full/thorough diagnostic proggy which claims that his 20gb and
40gb hd's are healthy. I tweaked his W98se's (on drive c system.ini to
use xp pro's (on drive d 928mb d:\pagefile.sys and deleted
c:\windows\win386.swp and added into the [386Enh] section of system.ini
PagingDrive=d:
PagingFile=d:\pagefile.sys
MinPagingFileSize=950272

....forgot to put in a MaxPagingFileSize= :-(
....and left xp pro in charge of the size of d:\pagefile.sys !!!

....so perhaps I'll 'phone him later on to finish it off properly !

Thanx to PCR and all who pondered on my 'phone based ramblings!

regards, Richard


"RJK" wrote in message
...
Now, supposing that after this weekend, and after visiting my brother in
Bournemouth, and supposing that I've miraculously mended his PC that won't
start up either W98se or XP Pro, and supposing that there's time to spare,
(what a joke!), ...if I slapped in a 2nd hard disk,
...(s**t! ..I think he's already got two in there...), ....anyway, I
think
I shall do a bit of tweaking so that he can Norton Ghost his c: and d:
drives (W98se and xp pro), to a drive somewhere, for recovery should this
sort of thing happen again. (...should have done that for him ages ago).

...so my question, ....sort of, is :-

If I make him a boot W98se boot up cd, with Norton Gohst v7 on it, can
Norton ghost be batch file driven to do the job. (I've got the Norton
*.pdf
manual in here somewhere which I'll read if I get a "Yes" in here :-),
and if so, can it be batched/automated without user intervention e.g. when
I
ghost a drive - the first chunk is 1.99 GB (2,147,466,920 bytes), and I
have
to tweak the filename for the second chunk ?

In other words, is it possible to knock-up a batchfile, to be run from a
bootup cd-r that'll Norton ghost specific drives to specific drives
without
user intervention - particularly where occupied space on a given drive is
larger than 1.99gb's.

regards, Richard

You are welcome. (I don't know what they would do were it the XP side,
but...) DO NOT set a Max Swap File size in Win98,-- OR Harper &/or
Martell will fry you in XP-radiation!


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"RJK" wrote in message
...
| ..WELL !!! hello, whoever may be keeping half an eye on this post !
I got
| back from Bournemouth about three hours ago and have fully sorted out
my
| brothers machine, except for a fiddle with his swap file that I left
half
| finished !
|
| I had done all the WRONG research, (based on his "on the 'phone" fault
| descriptions) !!
|
| First power up, first bios screen, I noticed that his cpu was showing
as an
| Athlon 1150 ...or something like that, so I hit the Del key and
rummaged
| through his bios. Several settings had altered - it looked a little
like
| the bios had defaulted to "basic" or "failsafe" settings ....I wonder
if he
| had something resting on the keyboard during start-up, when his
trouble
| started e.g. resting on the Function keys - including one which forces
bios
| to use "failsafe" settings ...I suppose I'll never know.
|
| His "cpu pnp" settings were wrong i.e. 100/100 mhz , they should have
been
| 133/133 mhz.
| His onboard AC 97 sound chip was enabled, which his W98se and xp pro
| wouldn't have liked because he's got an old SoundBlaster pci128v in a
pci
| slot ! ...that would account for the black screens at boot-up he
| described, and xp pro detecting new hardware !
| His AMR slot was enabled in bios - not needed because he has a pci
hardware
| modem in the box. ...several other settings were wrong.
|
| Anyway, it's now showing the correct xp1800+ cpu at start-up. I ran
| Seagate's hd full/thorough diagnostic proggy which claims that his
20gb and
| 40gb hd's are healthy. I tweaked his W98se's (on drive c system.ini
to
| use xp pro's (on drive d 928mb d:\pagefile.sys and deleted
| c:\windows\win386.swp and added into the [386Enh] section of
system.ini
| PagingDrive=d:
| PagingFile=d:\pagefile.sys
| MinPagingFileSize=950272
|
| ...forgot to put in a MaxPagingFileSize= :-(
| ...and left xp pro in charge of the size of d:\pagefile.sys !!!
|
| ...so perhaps I'll 'phone him later on to finish it off properly !
|
| Thanx to PCR and all who pondered on my 'phone based ramblings!
|
| regards, Richard
|
|
| "RJK" wrote in message
| ...
| Now, supposing that after this weekend, and after visiting my
brother in
| Bournemouth, and supposing that I've miraculously mended his PC that
won't
| start up either W98se or XP Pro, and supposing that there's time to
spare,
| (what a joke!), ...if I slapped in a 2nd hard disk,
| ...(s**t! ..I think he's already got two in there...), ....anyway,
I
| think
| I shall do a bit of tweaking so that he can Norton Ghost his c: and
d:
| drives (W98se and xp pro), to a drive somewhere, for recovery should
this
| sort of thing happen again. (...should have done that for him ages
ago).
|
| ...so my question, ....sort of, is :-
|
| If I make him a boot W98se boot up cd, with Norton Gohst v7 on it,
can
| Norton ghost be batch file driven to do the job. (I've got the
Norton
| *.pdf
| manual in here somewhere which I'll read if I get a "Yes" in here
:-),
| and if so, can it be batched/automated without user intervention
e.g. when
| I
| ghost a drive - the first chunk is 1.99 GB (2,147,466,920 bytes),
and I
| have
| to tweak the filename for the second chunk ?
|
| In other words, is it possible to knock-up a batchfile, to be run
from a
| bootup cd-r that'll Norton ghost specific drives to specific drives
| without
| user intervention - particularly where occupied space on a given
drive is
| larger than 1.99gb's.
|
| regards, Richard
|
|
|
|