Problems Imaging Dell Workstations

[Migration User]

Hello,

I was wondering how I could obtain information on how to use Symantec GhostCast Server version 8.00.984 to image a Dell Precision 670 that contain two 34 GB hard drives.

The Sysprep image that our company uses is comprised of two partitions. A "C" partition and a "D" partition. We are trying image the first 34 GB drive with just the "C" partition and image the second 34 GB drive with just the "D" partition. We have tried and tested numerous command lines (in Windows) and haven?t produced the desired result. Either Ghost only recognizes one drive or we end up with the C & D partition on the first drive and another partition which actually is the "D" partition on the second drive.

The following are the command lines we are using at the moment:

D Drive:
ghost -clone,mode=PLOAD,src=g:\DPART.GHO:1,dst=2:1 -ntil -auto -sure -fx

C Drive:
ghost -clone,mode=PLOAD,src=g:\XP2005Q2.GHO:1,dst=1:1 -ntil -auto -sure ?fx


Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

Todd Leinss
Compucom

[Migration User]

Does ghost recognise the second drive at all? I'm bit confuged that you mentioned, "...and another partition which actually is the "D" partition on the second drive" is this mean you restored "D" partition to second disk?

[Migration User]

The sysprep image we use has two partitions. A "C" partition that consists of the operating system and a "D" partition that contains "Documents and Settings." Ghost recognizes both drives in the Dell workstation but we can't seem to get the command line correct to achieve the desired result. We want the "C" partition on Drive 1 and the "D" partition on Drive 2.

[Migration User]

From the command line, you are restoring 1st partition from image DPART.GHO and restore it to second disk.
and similarly, you are restoring 1st partition from image XP2005Q2.GHO to first disk. is this the way you want to achieve?

From Ghost image, there is no concept of "C" partition or "D" partition. you have to know whether "C" partition is the first partition or second partition. because drive letter can be changed depends on windows or dos. (e.g. dos doesn't assign drive letter to NTFS partition)

I'm wondering whether there were existing partitions in the target system or not.

[Migration User]

I think I didn't explain myself totally correct in what we are trying to do.

The XP2005Q2 image contains two partitions. One has the operating system and the other has document and settings. We use this same image for laptops and desktops. The DPART image we use is just for Dell workstations.

We want the DPART to go onto the second drive in the workstation. We want the XP2005Q2 image to go onto the first drive but just the partition with the operating system. Does this make sense?

Is there a way to tell Ghost to take the first partition on XP2005Q2 and put it the first drive and take the second partition and put it on the second drive?

We use the DPART only for workstations because it is the only way we can accomplish this but it doesn't work correctly.

[Migration User]

I should mention that we run two separate Ghost sessions to image our workstations. We use the script for the DPART first and image the second drive and then we use the script for the XP2005Q2 and image the first drive.

[Migration User]

"Is there a way to tell Ghost to take the first partition on XP2005Q2 and put it the first drive and take the second partition and put it on the second drive?"

if you want to achieve above, you can use the following command line.

ghost -clone,mode=pload,src=g:\XP2005Q2:1,dst=1:1 -ntil -auto -sure -fx
(this will take the first partition and put it in the first partition of first disk)

ghost -clone,mode=pload,src=g:\XP2005Q2:2,dst=2:1 -ntil -auto -sure -fx
(this will take the second partition and put it in the first partition of second disk)

hope this helps.