Orf, Thanks for that. We do them a little differently. I don't deal with
any files, spanning, etc. I put my source hard drive in the top removable
drawer and the destination hard drive in the bottom removable drawer. Then,
using the Ghost menu, I clone (disk to disk) the entire top drive to the
bottom drive. When I'm done, the directory structure on the destination is
identical to the source. The destination drive, if placed in the top
drawer, will boot and serve as a replacement for the now removed source drive.
I used to write bat files but have gotten away from it. They used to be
essential to optimize earlier versions of Windows, but XP doesn't seem to
require that tweaking. I use the boot disk with PC-DOS that Ghost makes for
me and "ghostpe" command with no modifiers. As I get older, I rely more on
that KISS principle. IF (as you say) Ghost always lists my C: drive (top
drawer) as the first drive, I guess I will not have a problem. I would
prefer to see a serial # or something but it's probably not possible.
Thanks to all for the responses. Bob Lendrim
At 11/8/2003, you wrote:
>Ghost will indicate that the first drive encountered is Drive 1. - the
>real "C" drive. The next will be Drive 2.- the real "D" drive, etc.
>One of the autoexec.bat files that I use for ghosting looks like this:
>
>@echo off
>MOUSE.COM
>Del c:/clone1.*
>CD GHOST
>echo Loading...
>GHOSTPE.EXE -clone,mode=dump,src=1,dst=c:\clone1.gho -auto -cns
>
>where:
>@echo off - prevents the following commands from being displayed.
>MOUSE.COM - loads the mouse driver
>Del c:/clone1.* - deletes all previous copies of any files with the name
>"clone1. The path "c:/ is in fact the second drive, the real "D" drive.
>CD GHOST - changes directories on the floppy to the ghost directory.
>echo Loading... - shows a message that ghost is loading.
>GHOSTPE.EXE - opens the ghost program.
>-clone, - allows automation of the Ghost operation.
>mode=dump, - indicates that the operation is a disk-to-file dump.
>src=1, - indicates the source disk is disk 1.
>dst=c:\clone1.gho - indicates the disk is to be dumped to the
>c:\clone1.gho file (this file is not on the real "C" drive but on the
>"D" drive.)
>-auto - automatically names spanned files. A file is limited to 2 GB and
>will now automatically create additional files.
>-cns - prevents spanned files using the Microsoft naming convention and
>instead uses its own convention. Without the -cns the second file would
>be named clone002.gho. With the switch, the second file is named
>clone1.001. I use this convention so that it is easy to delete all files
>created the last time I cloned to the file clone1. I have three floppies
>each cloning to a differently named file )clone1, clone2 and clone3).
>
>Ghost has a Wizard for creating floppies or putting the bat file on a CD.
>
>Create a bat file on a floppy designed to delete only a dummy test file
>and run it from the floppy. You will need the file MSDOS.sys on the
>floppy. Try it out on a file on each drive, in this way you will be able
>to check the file designations without doing any damage to wanted data.
>
>Orf Bartrop
>
>
>
>
>Robert Lendrim wrote:
>
>>That's a good way to see which disk you are looking at, but . . .
>>If I could see the directory structure it wouldn't be a problem. When
>>I start Ghost from the DOS disk it shows the two hard drives that are
>>in the computer. But it shows very little info about them. I'm not able
>>to see any of the directories etc. The only parameters shown are:
>>Drive 1 2
>>Size 38172 38166
>>Type basic basic
>>Cyl 4866 4865
>>Hds 255 255
>>Sect 63 63
>> From those parameters I find no real differentiating information except
>>for the fact that I always use a smaller drive for the destination.
>>It would seem there should be a more positive method of identification.
>>Maybe I'm missing something. Thanks, Bob Lendrim
>
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