Ghost Questions!!

[omc1jz]

i have been given a Norton ghost image on 5 cd's , i have to put it on a new 80 gig hard disk.

1. Im guessing that i have to make a partition on the new drive that was the same size as the old hard disk?

2. Im not sure on what the old h/d 's specs are , how can i find out what size the ghost image is.. so i can make the new partition (if i have to).

the discs are a bootable ( made with ghost 2003 )

Cheers

Maty!!!

You don't have to make a partition.

Are the CD's bootable, or do you need a boot floppy?

If the CD's are, just put the first one in and go through the menu of putting the image to disk.

You can specify a size in the process, by default it want's to use the entire drive. It's probably gonna take awhile since you're going from CD.

[omc1jz]

yeh they are bootable cd's..

When you say it wants to use the entire drive? what do you mean.

So if i specify a size it will make a partition for the image. and leave a whole lot of unpartitioned space?

Also for future referance , you said that it would be slow from cd's , How do u do it faster? across a network? and do you browse across the network to find the image file?

Cheers for your super quick reply rick...

Maty

I mean by default, it's set to use the entire space on your HDD for the image you're about to load. You will see a little section where you can tye in (MB's I believe) a different size if you don't want it to use 100% of the drive. It has a set minimum that the image needs though. You can't go less than that. The rest is unpartitioned space that you could create a partition on for other use(s).

As for faster, going from Disk to Disk would be Hella faster. Over a network should outrun the CD-ROM method as well.