ghosting a laptop hdd?

[fathead]

I normally use ghost to transfer contents of one drive to another, but I need to do it on a laptop. What software can I use...???

[Mayhem]

Actually you can still use ghost. I just do it a little differently. I have an adapter to connect the laptop drive to standard PC IDE cable and power. this way I can plug the drivwes into the workbench machine and ghost away.

[Papa Smurf]

You can also use a serial or parrallel cross over cable. Its much much slower but it works just the same.

Failing that, if the laptop has a NIC card u could try and use a network boot disk and create a system image file, I've used this menthod a lot and it works great. This is probably the fastest option as the cross over cable is wwwwwaaaayyy slllooowwww.

Hope this helps
Papa "Thank f**k its Friday" Smurf

[fathead]

Mayhem, where can I get the adapter??????

[TheLow1]

Here is a link to one of those adapters.

<a href="http://cyberguys.com/cgi-bin/sgin0101.exe?UID=2001080312065975&GEN5=cyber&GEN6= 00&GEN9=5CG01&FNM=14&T1=161+0405&UREQA=1&UREQB=2&U REQC=3&UREQD=4" target="_blank">http://cyberguys.com/cgi-bin/sgin0101.exe?UID=2001080312065975&GEN5=cyber&GEN6= 00&GEN9=5CG01&FNM=14&T1=161+0405&UREQA=1&UREQB=2&U REQC=3&UREQD=4</a>

[Damned Angel]

here is another link, cheaper and with a lifetime warranty.
<a href="http://www.startech.com/ststore/searchframe.asp?product_desc=ide4044&Description=S earch+Results&Topbar=true" target="_blank">http://www.startech.com/ststore/searchframe.asp?product_desc=ide404 4&Description=Search+Results&Topbar=true</a>

[Gabriel]

Well you can do it with almost no Special Equip.
Plug your Laptop into a network with DHCP - Install Ghost with a floppy for the NIC that you have.
Map a network drive and evWalla! you can ghost it up through the network.
and in our days it even works faster than a Parallel/Serial Storage device.

Good Luck
Gabriel

[Outcoded]

[quote]Originally posted by TheLow1:
<strong>Here is a link to one of those adapters.

<a href="http://cyberguys.com/cgi-bin/sgin0101.exe?UID=2001080312065975&GEN5=cyber&GEN6= 00&GEN9=5CG01&FNM=14&T1=161+0405&UREQA=1&UREQB=2&U REQC=3&UREQD=4" target="_blank">http://cyberguys.com/cgi-bin/sg in0101.exe?UID=2001080312065975&GEN5=cyber&GEN6=00 &GEN9=5CG01&FNM=14&T1=161+0405&UREQA=1&UREQB=2&URE QC=3&UREQD=4</a></strong><hr></blockquote>

Jesus! That's got to be one of the longest links I've seen in a long time

Really made things interesting considering this screens in 800*600

[Ya_know]

I ran ghost 6.0 on a laptop while in Windows, and sent the image to a mapped drive. I then burned the image to CD, and ghosted to another laptop (same make) and it worked flawlessly. I wouldn't have believed it actually works if I didn't see it myself!!!

[Gabriel]

[quote]Originally posted by Ya_know:
<strong>I ran ghost 6.0 on a laptop while in Windows, and sent the image to a mapped drive. I then burned the image to CD, and ghosted to another laptop (same make) and it worked flawlessly. I wouldn't have believed it actually works if I didn't see it myself!!!</strong><hr></blockquote>

What i have earilier suggested is that you Ghost into a network drive - Not ghost and copy.

[Ya_know]

[quote]Originally posted by Gabriel:
<strong>Well you can do it with almost no Special Equip.
Plug your Laptop into a network with DHCP - Install Ghost with a floppy for the NIC that you have.
Map a network drive and evWalla! you can ghost it up through the network.
and in our days it even works faster than a Parallel/Serial Storage device.
Gabriel</strong><hr></blockquote>

Right, but I got the impression that you used a boot disk with a DOS NIC driver and client software to authenticate, Map, then run ghost without loading Windows. What I described was to run it from within Windows...If we are both talking about Windows, let's note the DOS boot as an additional suggestion…

[cyberhh]

Do you guys have DOS PCMCIA drivers? I have not been able to find any to make my PCMCIA NIC work from a DOS ghost boot disk.

[Ya_know]

I wish i did. I haven't booted a PC to DOS and onto a network in some time. When I did the disks were made by someone else. I tried before to make a disk with the Network Client Administrator in NT server, but I never had any of the right drivers, so I found work around solutions instead. I always wanted to get back and practice that stuff...

[Daemon]

you can do a network ghost. Or on the new version of ghost if you have a cd burner you can ghost directly to the cdrw. Or ghost to a usb device like a hard drive, or a usb network connection.

[Gabriel]

[quote]Originally posted by cyberhh:
<strong>Do you guys have DOS PCMCIA drivers? I have not been able to find any to make my PCMCIA NIC work from a DOS ghost boot disk.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Whats your card model and maker?