... onto a harddisk??

i can copy a fucking harddrive no problem. As long as i have a CD-R disk with 4.3GB capacity.
I dont have any CD-Rs with that capacity amazingly enough
I have dvds i can write that much info onto. and i have a second hard drive that i got specifically for this reason that can handle this much info.
BUT MOTHERFUCKING GHOST WONT LET ME WRITE AN IMAGE ONTO IT WHEN IM BACKING MY SHIT UP

WHAT IN THE GREEN GODDAMN HELL DO I DO

[Edited on August 27, 2005 at 1:59 AM. Reason : d]

8/27/2005 1:58:31 AM

apparantly i could also do this if i knew where to get floppy with multiple gigabyte capacity

8/27/2005 2:45:45 AM

bttt

8/27/2005 3:14:14 AM

What is the disk formatted? If its Fat32 it should let you do it.

8/27/2005 3:20:37 AM

which disk?
the source or destination?

ps. thanks

8/27/2005 3:23:25 AM

Ghost should split up the image over multiple CDs if you specify a CDR as your media. Also, if you have a second hard disk in there, it *should* show up in ghost. If it doesn't check your BIOS settings or the filesystem of the 2nd hard drive to make sure ghost will support it.

8/27/2005 11:23:57 AM

ghost -split 600

or something like that

theres a switch to split the image into chunks for easy portability.

Also, if you have other computers on the network you can save/load the image directly to the other computer's hdd.

Everything is in the help files for ghost.

8/27/2005 11:44:49 AM

The help file that I got with this bundle is like a 3 page PDF file consisting of basicly "well i guess you should like put the um .. yeah the program on some kind of drive and like, .. err yeah that'll do it"
got this particular ghost from some slapped together oem bundled disk that came with a shitty motherboard i bought

8/27/2005 12:47:25 PM

uhh is it the latest version? i had a problem w/ that in the old version, but I can do that just fine in the new one.

8/27/2005 12:55:44 PM

I assume you made a boot disk with the copy of ghost you got, and that your disk you are trying to backup is NTFS.

^^^^^ The destination disk needs to be Fat32 for your boot disk to be able to read it, assign it a drive letter, and save files to it.

^^The copy of ghost that came with a motherboard I bought a while back was totoally useless cause it could only make images where the source drive was formatted FAT or FAT32, not any form of NTFS. If yours has the same limitation, it should say it on the packaging somewhere.

8/27/2005 1:30:40 PM

are you using 2 computers?

8/27/2005 1:32:26 PM

yeah that fat32 destination disk solved the problem <3 the xp disk managment tool
but of course if its not one thing it's another, i burned the image to a dvd that i made bootable an ms dos boot disk image. and now of course ghost cant read any files on the very disk its booting from .. ahh well.
i never thought it would be this much of a pain in the ass to simply make a stand alone disk i could reinstall my os with.

8/28/2005 4:27:29 AM