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