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January 12th, 2010 02:00
Ghost Image of DELL Systems
Ghost Image of DELL Systems for Easy Restoration
I have following DELL Systems:
1. Dell Power Edge 2850 Server on which Windows 2003 Server R2 is installed
2. Dell T100 with on which Windows 2003 Server R2 is installed
2. Dell Optiplex 360 on Which Windows XP Professional is installed.
I am unable to make Ghost Image of these Systems with Norton Ghost Software.
During Ghosting system Hangs at ok cdrom.sys
Kindly Tell me Which Software, I need to purchase , to make the Ghost Image of These Systems so that,
I restore these Systems easily in case of any Disaster.
Prompt Response will be highly appreciated.
Regards.
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Offonoff
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January 12th, 2010 04:00
There are a few directions you could go in.
1: Burn your boot disk again for Ghost. Though I do not see the exact error message, it could be a bad boot disk OR the system you are Ghosting could have errors. Also please note that Ghost does not play nice with some RAID systems.
2: Use the Windows Backup tool - This is not completly relyable, but pulling a full back up with "System State" will give you everything you need to restore the OS to that point. (NOTE: There is a large debate about this tool, sometimes it does not work correctly)
3: You could use a tape backup (would need a tape drive and tapes) using Backup Exec, this will keep your data that might be there as well.
pcmeiners
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January 17th, 2010 08:00
If you have a raid1 for the OS, if you pull one of the disks, and replace with a spare, the pulled disk is a clone.
With any cloning software make sure you run chkdsk before cloning.
As to Norton Ghost, as most cloning softwares,it may not like some device in the server, try a different version. Personally I have had much less issues with Acronis; there are a few free cloning programs out there.
speedstep
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January 17th, 2010 10:00
Also Keep in mind that unless the Container device uses NTFS the maximum image size is 2 gigs for fat and 4 gigs for fat32.
speedstep
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January 17th, 2010 10:00
ok cdrom.sys is a DOS driver.
You need to make a WINDOWS PE or BART PE Boot DVD with GHOST32 Version 8 or higher
that includes all the drivers to support the onboard SATA/SCSI/IDE or whatever and USB 2.0 ports
so that you can use GHOST32 to image to a USB Hard drive enclosure.
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/pluginhelp/ghost.htm
Ghost v8.0
reybeast1
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January 21st, 2010 15:00
yep, bartPE, and you can even put it on a USB key and run ghost from there (thats what we do). Of course you will need the drivers for whatever hard drive controller cards you may have on your systems. bartpe information here http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ and PE to usb is here http://gocoding.com/page.php?al=petousb
Oh, and the oakdriver is failing because it cant talk to the optical drive via the system chipset (because it doesnt have the chipset driver)