To automate the cloning of disk to disk as you currently do would
require the the command line in the .bat file to read:

GHOSTPE.EXE -clone,mode=copy,src=1,dst=2

that would clone the "C" drive to the "D" drive.

Open your autoexec.bat file on the boot floppy and add the switches.
Save the file and away you go. If the bat file is hidden and you cannot
find it, in Notepad or Wordpad in the open file window select the "A"
drive and type autoexec.bat in as the file name.

A friend of mine used to clone disk to disk until a bug got into his
computer requiring the "C" drive to be replaced with the "D" drive to
hopefully restore his computer to a pre bug state. Alas, the bug had
been present undetected when he did the ghost. So he ended up worse off
than doing nothing. He lost a weeks work.

By ghosting to a file you can create several ghosts of the "C" drive and
store them all on the one disk as files. In my case 3 files ranging back
over about 3 months. The system can be restored from any of the files at
any time. Ghost will even format a new disk as it restores. Individual
files or folders can be restored simply by opening the file containing
the ghost, finding the desired file and telling the program to extract
the file.

This added insurance is worth thinking about and once you have created
one autoexec.bat file the others are copies with a different file name.

Orf

>
> 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.


>> 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).
>

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