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Norton Ghost 2003 and 4780

post #1 of 4
6/17/04 at 4:16pm
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Has anyone managed to get Ghost to work with the 4780 and the Realtek 8169 network adapter? I have not had any success so far.

If so did you use a shared network drive for the location of the image file? I have not yet created a boot CD (this is the first time I have missed a floppy drive), anything I need to know?
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post #2 of 4
6/28/04 at 7:05pm
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I have given up on trying to do this. I suspect that the NDIS drivers do not load because of lack of free memory below 640KB and loading EMM386.EXE only hangs the system when creating UMBs. Its been a while since I messed with this DOS stuff so I may be doing something wrong.

My solution has been to burn CDs with the image. Problem is that with all the software that I need on the image (Visual Studio 2003, SQL Server 2000, Lotus Domino 6, XP Professional, Office Professional, and all of the utilities I use every day) the image takes 10 CDs!

Maybe I should have opted for the DVD burner!

The next problem was to create a bootable CD-ROM with Nero and no floppy. Good thing I have another system with CD burner and floppy or I would be out of luck.
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post #3 of 4
7/4/04 at 2:19pm
I have used Ghost with both my laptop, though they are not the 4780. I set up a network share on my "server" and leave it open across my network to computers having my user name and password. I plug the server and laptop up to one router. Ghost works well using this method, creating 2GB image files on my server. This consumes about 24GB for my 8500 and a little more than 40GB with my 8790, once I delete my small mp3 collection and video files.

Might it be useful to post instructions on using Ghost with this method? I have a July 4th gettogether/business meeting in half an hour, so I can't be expected to offer a good "how-to" guide in that time. If you all want the instructions, I'll post them later, if you think it may be helpful.
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post #4 of 4
8/20/04 at 1:42pm
I gave up on this together and went to Acronis True Image 8.0

It supports and work flawlessly.

It will create a bootable cd for you to use without having you to go search for stupid drivers ;p
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