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albertldee · Post by **albertldee** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 3:40 pm

does anyone know how to clone a windows 2000p pc i have ghost 2002 and 2003 each time i try to run it it say i cannot run it in windows NT i try putting them on a disk and boothing with the dis but nothing happen

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 3:42 pm

Create a FAT 32 partition. Put the ghost image on the FAT32 partition.

Boot from the GHOST disk and run it.

objohn · Post by **objohn** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:07 pm

ignore the last response you got.

the easiest way to use ghost is to make a dos bootable floppy disk, put ghost.exe on it, and boot off it.
If the above boot disk is a network boot disk, you can dump your image to a network location and then load it from teh network. or if you have two disks in the pc, you can do a straight disk to disk clone even if it is NTFS.
you don't need FAT32

OJ

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:18 pm

Originally posted by objohn
the easiest way to use ghost is to make a dos bootable floppy disk, put ghost.exe on it, and boot off it.if you have two disks in the pc, you can do a straight disk to disk clone even if it is NTFS.

Yup.

twwabw · Post by **twwabw** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 7:13 pm

Do you have the original CD? It is bootable, and all you have to do is change to the tools directory, and run ghostpe from there.

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 7:24 pm

Originally posted by twwabw
Do you have the original CD? It is bootable, and all you have to do is change to the tools directory, and run ghostpe from there.

yeppers.. OR you can install the ghost app in windows and use it to create the boot disk for you.. after all, ,thats all the windows ghost app is for.. that and viewing image files. If you have a burner you can burn the image to CD just like I do here at work. A fresh install of win2k (NTFS) w/ all updates & MSOffice all fits on one CD if you use the highest compression rate. What are you trying to back the image up to? Network drive or CD? I'm not 100% but I could have sworn when I tried to copy the image to a local disk it says it can't be placed on another partition on the same disk.. you have to use a different hard drive altogether, but its been awhile since I've attempted that so I could be wrong..

zxc47 · Post by **zxc47** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 8:21 am

albertldee To clone a new hard drive
Go in to bios setup ,set it up to boot to cd rom,then set primary master to none then set the jumper on the new hard drive as master the old one as slave.Then put the win2000 cd in and reboot.After you have it formatted and clone then go back to setup and set primary to auto that should do it.The key is to set the IDE master to none.You don't need gost to do it just use your win2000 cd

twwabw · Post by **twwabw** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:07 am

Originally posted by zxc47
albertldee To clone a new hard drive
Go in to bios setup ,set it up to boot to cd rom,then set primary master to none then set the jumper on the new hard drive as master the old one as slave.Then put the win2000 cd in and reboot.After you have it formatted and clone then go back to setup and set primary to auto that should do it.The key is to set the IDE master to none.You don't need gost to do it just use your win2000 cd

Huh?

How exactly will this copy his previous install of win2k?

zxc47 · Post by **zxc47** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:31 am

I don't know how you do it ? But win xp will give you a screen were you can pick the to clone .if it see you have a new hard drive and if both hard drive are in the system.after it been reformatted. I would think that win2000 will do the same.I have done it befor

Noevo · Post by **Noevo** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 2:04 pm

You have to make sure the app your using supports win2000 imaging. Older versions of Ghost and DriveImage do not support it, especially if you are using NTFS. Thats the first hurdle.

If your planning on deploying cloned pc's this way you're going to need to look into Win2k's utility called sysprep. You can't just clone a w2k machine and get it on the network just like the one you imaged off of. it's because of the SID on win2k.

objohn · Post by **objohn** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 2:29 pm

Stop pissing around with disks and image the stupid thing with ghost. it takes 15 mins. what could be simpler.
I'll even send you a ghost disk if you want (minus the ghost executable as that would be piracy).

You can then just get a copy of ghost some your own CD and hey presto.

Noevo · Post by **Noevo** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 4:04 pm

Originally posted by objohn
Stop pissing around with disks and image the stupid thing with ghost. it takes 15 mins. what could be simpler.
I'll even send you a ghost disk if you want (minus the ghost executable as that would be piracy).

You can then just get a copy of ghost some your own CD and hey presto.

He was asking for help. Care to offer any?

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 4:11 pm

Originally posted by Noevo
If your planning on deploying cloned pc's this way you're going to need to look into Win2k's utility called sysprep. You can't just clone a w2k machine and get it on the network just like the one you imaged off of. it's because of the SID on win2k.

sysprep /nosidgen

thats the command, but If my memory serves me correct its on the windows 2000 server CD & not the 2k pro.. but I may be mistaken..

Also, yes you can clone the PC's without sysprep (I did it before), its just a bit of a pain in the ass at first b/c you'll have to change a few things like computer name before you hook it up to the network. Sysprep /nosidgen makes it a lot easier.

But like objohn mentioned, forget about messing with all your disks, thats just making more work... just ghost it.. I'm even willing to bet its takes LESS than 15 minutes if all you have is a fresh install to clone..

If you've already got ghost,, just install it, create the disk and do the deed and be done with it.

objohn · Post by **objohn** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 6:39 pm

Personally I'd leave out the nosidgen switch - you never want to pc's on teh same network with the same SID, as it causes loads of problems with user accounts especially if you're in a workgroup rather than domain. Only use the nosidgen switch if you're making a backup of your comptuer and the new and old image will never be powered on at the same time.

If you've already done this, use the ghstwalk.exe program that comes with ghost to create a new sid - only takes 1 min.

OJ

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:01 am

Originally posted by objohn
Personally I'd leave out the nosidgen switch - you never want to pc's on teh same network with the same SID, as it causes loads of problems with user accounts especially if you're in a workgroup rather than domain. Only use the nosidgen switch if you're making a backup of your comptuer and the new and old image will never be powered on at the same time.

your right.. the nosidgen switch was something we used on our domain a while back for the mini-setup option.. I had forgotten about the workgroup disasters that would ensue. sorry to have been misleading.. Hope everything gets cloned okay for you albertldee..