GHOST SPECIAL EDITION Installation and Users Guide Copyright Notice No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any human or computer language, in any form or by any means, without the express written permission of Traveling Software, Inc., 18702 North Creek Parkway, Bothell, Washington, 98011, U.S.A. Trademarks Traveling Software, the Traveling Software logo, and LapLink are trademarks or registered trademarks of Traveling Software, Inc. Ghost Special Edition is a trademark of Binary Research, Ltd. Jaz and Zip are registered trademarks of Iomega Corporation. Other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Ghost Special Edition Users Guide Copyright © 1998 by Traveling Software, Inc. All rights reserved. 18702 North Creek Parkway Bothell, WA 98011 U.S.A. Printed in U.S.A. Ghost Special Edition Copyright © 1998 Binary Research, Ltd. Contents 1 Introducing Ghost Special Edition ......................................................................................... 1 What is Ghost Special Edition? .............................................................................................. 2 Putting Ghost Special Edition to work ................................................................................ 2 Cloning a computer ......................................................................................................... 2 Upgrading or replacing a hard drive ............................................................................... 2 Backing up a hard drive ................................................................................................... 3 Features and benefits of Ghost Special Edition ...................................................................... 4 How Ghost Special Edition works .......................................................................................... 5 Cloning complete disks ....................................................................................................... 5 Cloning partitions ............................................................................................................... 5 Creating and restoring image files ...................................................................................... 6 2 Working with Ghost Special Edition ..................................................................................... 6 Requirements for using Ghost Special Edition ....................................................................... 8 Installing Ghost Special Edition ............................................................................................. 9 Starting Ghost Special Edition .............................................................................................. 10 Starting Ghost Special Edition from Windows NT ........................................................... 10 Cloning a computer .............................................................................................................. 11 Cloning directly over a parallel cable ............................................................................... 11 Cloning indirectly using a removable drive ..................................................................... 12 Upgrading or replacing a hard drive .................................................................................... 14 Backing up using Ghost Special Edition ............................................................................... 15 Working with partitions ....................................................................................................... 16 3 Ghost Special Edition Command Walk Through ................................................................ 24 Selecting the connection type .............................................................................................. 20 Clone disk to disk ................................................................................................................. 23 Save entire disk to image file ................................................................................................ 26 Restore disk from image file ................................................................................................. 28 Check disk integrity .............................................................................................................. 31 Check image file integrity ..................................................................................................... 33 Clone partition to partition .................................................................................................. 34 Save partition(s) to image file ............................................................................................... 36 Restore partition from image file .......................................................................................... 38 Appendices .............................................................................................................................. 41 Appendix AChecking your disk with MS-DOS utilities .................................................... 42 Appendix BSpanning image files across multiple volumes .............................................. 44 How spanning an image file works ................................................................................... 44 Restoring a disk or partition from a spanned image ........................................................ 46 Appendix CUsing Ghost Special Edition in batch files .................................................... 47 Switches for batch mode operation .................................................................................. 47 Appendix DFrequently Asked Questions .......................................................................... 51 Appendix EGlossary of Terms ........................................................................................... 54 Index ..................................................................................................................................... 57 1 Introducing Ghost Special Edition In this chapter What is Ghost Special Edition? .................................................................................................. 2 Putting Ghost Special Edition to work ................................................................................... 2 Cloning a computer ............................................................................................................ 2 Upgrading or replacing a hard drive ................................................................................... 2 Backing up a hard drive ....................................................................................................... 3 Features and benefits of Ghost Special Edition ......................................................................... 4 How Ghost Special Edition works .............................................................................................. 5 Cloning complete disks .......................................................................................................... 5 Cloning partitions................................................................................................................... 5 Creating and restoring image files .......................................................................................... 6 1: Introducing Ghost Special Edition What is Ghost Special Edition? Ghost Special Edition is a cloning program. Using Ghost Special Edition, you can copy the entire contents of a hard disk to another hard disk, or you can copy the contents of a partition to another partition. Ghost Special Edition can clone from one computer to another using a parallel cable, and from drive to drive within a single computer. Ghost Special Edition can clone MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, OS/2, Linux, and NetWare operating systems. Ghost Special Edition is a fast and complete solution for cloning a hard drive, backing up a system, and upgrading to a new hard drive. With Ghost Special Edition, you can easily create and store a compressed image file of an entire hard drive or individual partition on a Jaz, Zip, secondary hard drive, writable CD-ROM or other removable media device. The image file can then be restored from the source and used for disaster recovery, or the installation of a complete operating system onto a new computer. Using Ghost Special Edition, you can configure a workstation and install operating systems such as Windows 95, Windows NT, and OS/2 in just minutes. This speed is what makes Ghost Special Edition a robust program, saving technical professionals hours of time deploying standard software configurations on similar hardware, thus eliminating all traditional setup times. With Ghost Special Edition, you can clone multiple workstations, making it particularly useful for organizations having a large number of similarly configured workstations to install. For example, Ghost Special Edition reduces the time to install a typical 300 megabyte Windows 95 system from one hour (with substantial operator input) to approximately five minutes (with no operator input required). Putting Ghost Special Edition to work Because Ghost Special Edition clones an entire hard drive, including operating systems, data, and other applications, it is a very flexible tool. Use Ghost Special Edition whenever you need an exact duplicate of a hard drive. Cloning a computer There are two methods you can use to duplicate a computer using Ghost Special Edition. You can copy the entire contents from one computer to another over a parallel cable, or you can create an image file on removable media such as Jaz or Zip, and then restore it to the computer you want to clone. For more information, refer to chapter 2. Upgrading or replacing a hard drive With Ghost, you can upgrade the hard drive on your desktop computer. If you are replacing your hard drive, and want to keep all of the data from your existing hard drive, you can use Ghost Special Edition to quickly copy all of your data, including boot information and all of your partitions, to the new drive. For more information, refer to chapter 2. 2 1: Introducing Ghost Special Edition Backing up a hard drive If you back up for disaster recovery, cloning can be a very useful tool. With ordinary backup programs, you generally need to format a disk and install an operating system before you can restore your data. With Ghost Special Edition, however, formatting and operating system transfer are handled automatically. There are several ways in which you can do backups using Ghost Special Edition. You can back up a laptop to a desktop, back up to another hard drive, or back up to removable drives, such as Jaz and Zip. With Ghost, the entire contents of a disk are copied to a compressed disk image file. When a hard drive fails, you can restore from the image, reproducing the entire hard drive (down to the boot sector). 3 1: Introducing Ghost Special Edition Features and benefits of Ghost Special Edition With Ghost Special Edition, you can configure a workstation in just minutes, and make a complete backup of a hard drive, including in-use system files. Ghost is a robust, easy-touse copying program. Ghost Special Edition: · · · · · · · · · · · · Clones a number of operating systems such as MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, OS/2, Linux, and NetWare. Allows you to select individual partitions within a hard drive, instead of copying the entire contents of a hard drive. Clones many types of partitions, including NTFS, FAT, FAT32, and VFAT. Automatically formats, resizes, and partitions a hard drive while copying data to it. Supports the file systems for all versions of Windows 95 and Windows NT, MS-DOS, NTFS, and HPFS partition types. Preserves long file names on all file system types (as in Windows 95 and Windows NT). Resizes partitions, FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS file systems. Spans images across multiple devices, such as Jaz, Zip, and other removable media. Verifies the integrity of a hard drive and image files. Offers several levels of compression for image files. Offers two modes of operation menu driven (interactive), and batch mode. Supports OS/2 extended attributes and boot manager partitions. 4 1: Introducing Ghost Special Edition How Ghost Special Edition works Ghost Special Edition copies the entire contents of a hard drive from a source disk to a target disk. In the cloning process, Ghost copies all the partitions within a disk (hard drive) from the source disk to the target disk. Ghost Special Edition is a MS-DOS-based program which can be run from the hard drive in MS-DOS, from an MS-DOS window (in Windows), or from an MS-DOS boot disk. Because multi-tasking operating systems like Windows 95 a ...