Bobby Heid
bheid at appdevgrp.com
Tue Feb 14 12:55:46 CST 2006
Note that Ghost 9 and up will ghost from within Windows. As will Acronis True Image. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:05 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [SPAM SUSPECT] Re: [dba-Tech] Windows XP repair on a Ghosted drive Importance: Low Erwin, Hmmm, I'm not sure what you mean by "at windows level." When I run Ghost from Windows, I tell it which drive to ghost and then it reboots the PC into DOS to actually perform the ghosting. I have run into an issue on my workstation after Ghosting where upon re-starting Windows XP Pro goes to a blue screen with a system halt message. Sometimes rebooting multiple times doesn't work so that I have to put in my old version of SysInternals ERD Commander to get Windows to get its undies unbundled. It's a mystery to me. Steve Erbach Neenah, WI http://TheTownCrank.blogspot.com On 2/14/06, Erwin Craps - IT Helps <Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be> wrote: > A small note on Partition Magic from Symantec. > I recently bought it, to make some changes on my home pc disks. > But it seems that Partition Magic does not support dynamic disks. > So it it's quiet useless to me now.... > > I also ordered Ghost, but its not deliverd yet.. > I suspect that that will work with dynamic disks because it works at > windows level? > > Erwin > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] Namens John Bartow > Verzonden: dinsdag 14 februari 2006 1:13 > Aan: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' > Onderwerp: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows XP repair on a Ghosted drive > > Steve, > Sorry, I missed this completely. > > The biggest difference between cloning and ghosting is that you're > typically using ghosting as a safety measure of to quickly load various > configurations on testing machines (well - at least I am). > > When you're cloning you're mass installing on new machines. > > You're often not going to get the luxury of doing all of that prep work > on a dying machine because when the HD dies (or is dying) you probably > don't want to rely on prepping and ghosting it at that point. > > Even so I think you would agree that it is much faster to ghost and use > the repair method as you did to recover the OS and apps than it is to > reinstall it all from scratch. > > I have heard of another way to do this that involved deleting the WinXP > product installation key but I can't find it now. Anyway it basically > just prompted you for the new ID# and you continue on as before. Maybe > it was some hack that got taken down but its worth googling around for.