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Need to Ghost an OS/2 drive under windows.

  • 09-12-2008 4:14pm
    #1
    milltown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,618 ✭✭✭


    First off, I apologise for double posting here and on the Computers board but time is not my friend and the more views/replies the merrier.

    I need to backup the HDD on a standalone (not networked) production tool. The tool runs custom software under os/2. I'm trying the drive as a 2nd drive in a local windows PC and using Norton Ghost 8.2. While the os/2 drive shows up in the source list, it is greyed out and therefore not selectable. FWIW, for now I just want to save the image to the local C drive.

    I've only tried using the GUI so far. Maybe somebody knows of a command line switch to force Ghost to image the drive?
    Any other suggestions also welcome.

    Thanks in advance,
    Milltown

    Edit: Actually, there's confusion over the operating system. I'm not quite sure where I got OS2 from. Any parameter changes are done via serial port and hyper terminal from a laptop using OS-9 commands. Surely in this digital age there's some relatively easy way to copy 1s and 0s from one drive to another? Probably not.


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  • #2
    Gonzovision
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,726 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision


    Is the file system JFS? There seems to be an issue with Norton and other cloning tools. Is it a necessity to use Norton?


  • #3
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    The last time I used any version of Ghost, which was admittedly a long time ago before it started to suffer from feature-bloat, it didn't care what file-system was being used, you could just make an image of a partition, regardless of what was in it. Maybe you have to go into some kind of "expert" mode or something to do that? Personally I use Acronis True Image for this kind of thing, and I'm pretty sure it could do what you want.

    If all else fails, you could boot a Linux distro and use dd, that always works.


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