I'm trying to clone the hard disk in my laptop to another connected over a
network in my desktop pc which will eventually replace the existing one.
After hours of trying to get this to work I'm stumped - Norton Ghost
complains that it can't create a virtual partition to boot due (finally
realised this was down to a conflict with Partition Magic). Powerquest Drive
Image wants me to create a boot floppy, my laptop doesn't have a floppy
drive as it's a slimmed down one with floppies as add-ons which I don't
really want to buy just for this use so I can't do this. How else can I get
an image of my existing drive over to the new one across the network?

Well if its possible and you have a cd burner on some computer on your
network and some basic software (IE nero or easy cd creator) you can make
the floppy image on a computer with a drive, then use nero or cd creator to
take that floppy image and put it on a bootable cd, then when the computer
boots it will use that image like a floppy, you will not be able to change
it but you can use it, I use those images for ghost multicast images or
remade my win98 and ME install CDs with a cdrom original win98 boot disk
that has cdrom support.


"nil spam" <no@spamplease.com> wrote in message
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"Jack T" <lexian@NOSPAM.Columbus.RR.com> wrote in message
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| Well if its possible and you have a cd burner on some computer on your
| network and some basic software (IE nero or easy cd creator) you can make
| the floppy image on a computer with a drive, then use nero or cd creator
to
| take that floppy image and put it on a bootable cd, then when the computer
| boots it will use that image like a floppy, you will not be able to change
| it but you can use it, I use those images for ghost multicast images or
| remade my win98 and ME install CDs with a cdrom original win98 boot disk
| that has cdrom support.
|

Sorry, no cd rom on the laptop either(!)

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 21:38:54 -0000, "nil spam" <no@spamplease.com>
wrote:

you will have to map network drives, probably.. maybee not... but it
works like a charm... shareware, works forever with a mild nag screen
at startup..

A WONDERFUL heavy duty copier, compare, cd burn check etc util.. coies
hidden, system etc too if set visible in explorer..

Of course this copies file by file, not a drive image
..v


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