Re: Full HDD Ghost Image of Dell E1505

FWIW, I used to use Ghost all the time back when you ran it from a floppy.

Late last year I bought a new Dimension E510 and wanted to make a image of
the complete drive, and I hadn't bought a copy of Ghost for the past version
or two, so I bought the latest version at the time, Ver 9.0. Hated it.

Heard about Acronis Trueimage, went to their web site, and downloaded a
15day trial version.
Loved it.
Bought it.

To me it's much more user freindly and straight-forward that the current
versions of Ghost.

and yes it does support backing up to most anything anywhere.

Try the 15-day version.


<robchow@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1151106959.535009.53750@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

I am having difficult ghosting the full HDD of my Dell E1505. I just
received this laptop and would like to do a complete reinstall of the
Windows OS as well as adding a Linux OS. Before I proceed with the
fresh install and wiping out the Dell pre-configured partitions, I
would like to ghost the whole hard drive (HDD).

I have been able to follow instructions from
http://nightowl.radified.com/bootcd/started.html to create a bootable
CD as this laptop does not have a floppy drive. Ghost starts and see
the HDD. Since I am imaging the whole drive, I don't have any location
(HDD space) to put this image to. So I decided to put the image on a
external USB HDD. This is were the problem is. I have been
unsuccessful in creating a bootable CD that would recognize my external
HDD. I believe the issue is that the USB DOS driver is not loading
properly or it is not recognizing the external HDD. I followed
examples from http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm but none work.

Another solution is for me to ghost the image to a space on the
network. I not been able to find a packet or NDIS driver for the Intel
PRO/Wireless network card.

Does anyone have advice on how I can proceed with imaging the HDD prior
to my wiping it clean?

Thanks



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