My laptop come with 3 disk that were a backup or restore the computer.
Trouble is it wipes everthing. I would like to be able to extract the files
so I can use them without wiping the disk. Is there such a program?
The files are image.gho
tnx
SLLD

Yes, it's called Ghost. I have Ghost 2003 and you can go into any image you
created and extract data from it. The problem is that the restore image you
have would have nothing in it that would be of any use to you. There's
obviously no data that would be of any use, you can't extract any programs
and if your thinking of trying to copy windows XP off of it, it can't be
done.

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Ghost, however the ghost images are probably password protected, and you
don't know the password (it's burred in the programs, but there is no
easy way to extract it).

Suggestion: Run the install (wiping out everything ... possibly on a
spare drive), and see if it leaves an "I386" folder on the hard drive
(could be in any of several locations), and if that folder has winnt.exe
and winnt32.exe on it. If you have that folder, that is what you want,
burn it to a CD and you can do any kind of installation you want,
without subsequently having to wipe anything.


SLLD wrote:

AS the above Poster correctly stated these are Ghost images of the drive/drives.

Individual files can be extracted, by using the Ghost Explorer program, this is
a windows based program which allows you to browse the contents of the image and
has the option to extract any of its contents ie. files etc to a location of
your choice..

GHOST.EXE is the dos utility which creates and restores the images.

GHOSTEXP.EXE is the Ghost windows utility for browsing the image afterwards.

Regards

Mike

SLLD wrote:
install all programs to "D". This way you can wipe out Windows without
losing your data. However Windows won't know about those files until
you reinstall the applications to the same directory previously used in "D".

Continuing another step establish a data folder within the application
folders on "D". Then when doing your backups finding the data files to
be backed up will be easy.

"SLLD" <jimnluna@isp.com> wrote in message
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| My laptop come with 3 disk that were a backup or restore the computer.
| Trouble is it wipes everthing. I would like to be able to extract the
files
| so I can use them without wiping the disk. Is there such a program?
| The files are image.gho
| tnx
| SLLD

When you say "extract those files" do you mean your Data Files on the
HDD, Programs on the HDD or Program files from the CDs?

In other words, what are you trying to do and why? These answers will
get better suggestions from the NG.

Chas.

Jim <chief_jim@go.com> wrote:
: SLLD wrote:
: > My laptop come with 3 disk that were a backup or restore the computer.
: > Trouble is it wipes everthing. I would like to be able to extract the files
: > so I can use them without wiping the disk. Is there such a program?
: > The files are image.gho
: > tnx
: > SLLD
: >
: >
: Another option is to partition your drive. Let Windows be on "C" and
: install all programs to "D". This way you can wipe out Windows without
: losing your data. However Windows won't know about those files until
: you reinstall the applications to the same directory previously used in "D".

Well, installing your programs to "D" doesn't help you if you
re-install Windows, because you will need to re-install all the
programs anyway. Windows isn't good at finding previously installed
programs.

You could put your Desktop and My Documents folders in another
partition. Then again, if you ever need to re-install, you can
archive those folder to a DVD or external hard drive anyway and just
re-install Windows and then re-copy your archived data back to the C:
drive.

: Continuing another step establish a data folder within the application
: folders on "D". Then when doing your backups finding the data files to
: be backed up will be easy.

That's what the My Documents folder is for, although some software
still doesn't use it. Otherwise, it's very easy simply to backup My
Documents and Desktop if you use it to store files.

Andrew
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Andrew wrote:

Belive I said that.

Andrew wrote:
Believe I said that.

Your post totally ignores that these ghost image files are invariably
password protected.


Mike wrote:

Thank you everyone
I will use a seperate win xp and the downloaded drivers from the manuf. site

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