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ghosting an old pc

  • 20-02-2005 4:14pm
    #1
    Chalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭


    hi
    i have 4 celeron 333's running win98se
    ive formatted and reinstalled everything on the lot and there working fine now
    was just wondering if theres anyway to get a hdd image of them that i can boot with

    ghost doesnt work on pcs that old and i dont seem to be able to run it across a network.

    any recommensations of a quick and easy way to do this?
    perhaps a free or trial program that i can use once and then uninstall.


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,296 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Bit late now but.. they were setup using a bootable CD made from a win98 boot floppy and flat files copied across at the dos prompt using the LCOPY.EXE program...


  • #3
    Chalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭Chalk


    so you just copied the entire hdd onto a cd and merged the boot info from the windows disc with it?

    ill have a look into that option.

    i didnt want to copy them as they were since that would defeat my purpose of formatting them ;)


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,296 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Setup one drive, can then Lcopy it to another drive in the same machine at DOS prompt or pop the drive in as a second drive in one with a CD writer like NERO , with a boot floppy and as long as it's less than 700MB you can just burn the CD.

    If you want to automate recovery - here's a handy tip..

    Make a new C: partition of 2GB fat 16 active
    fdisk /PRIO:2047 1 /ACTOK

    or for 4GB Fat 32
    fdisk /PRI:4097 1 /ACTOK

    use the rest of the drive up to 64GB as D:
    FDISK /EXT:65535 1 /LOG:65535 /ACTOK


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