Symantec Ghost

[ms2001]

Don't know if anyone here knows much about Symantec Ghost but here goes, what im trying todo is copy a image from a old laptop to a secondary partition on a new one.

I created two partitions on the new laptop put on the primary image, went to ghost the secondary image, it connects to the session then asks for the destination of the image it lists both partitions the primary and the secondary but they are both greyed out.

What im thinking is that the problem is because both of the images originated from primary partitions but now im trying to image one as a secondary, is ther anyway around this?

[osprey4]

What version of Ghost? Are you running Ghost from a floppy or from the hard drive of one of the laptops?

[zen]

Is the partition formatted?

[MTAtech]

I was under the impression that Ghost if the image is the whole drive, Ghost expects to restore to the whole drive. I could be wrong tho.

[ms2001]

Its Ghost 7.5 and we use a seperate ghost server running Ghostcast, ive set the Ghostcast up to receive as a partition, I then took two image one of each disk.

I then created two partitions on the new laptop and formatted both, I then ghosted the first image onto the primary partition. Then when I went to ghost the second image onto the secondary partition this is when the screen to select the destination was greyed out.

[jpiermarini]

you may want to check and make sure that the image isn't bigger then partitions that you have created.

[ms2001]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpiermarini

you may want to check and make sure that the image isn't bigger then partitions that you have created.

Its not,

I found out what was causing the problem, the older partition was Fat16 and you have to check a option in Ghost to convert Fat16 partitions to Fat32.