Re: [OT] Norton Ghost/Acronis TrueImage

["Pete Shew" <pete@xxxxxxx>]

It's slower, but not that slow, to reimage the disk across the network.
TrueImage can be booted form 3 diskettes or a CD as a stand alone (Linux
based?) version that loads network drivers and can access SMB resources
(i.e. Windows shares). The only problem you may encounter is if your
network card requires strange drivers. I used this method to install W2K on
a CD-less laptop (I installed on a VMWare virtual disk and then moved the
resultant image to the laptop).

Ghost probably has the same options.

Pete

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On 09/02/2004 at 12:17 Dean Barrett wrote:

>Gonna buy one of these today.
>
>I have received my replacement laptop drive today - it looks like it
comes
>with a standard IDE connector ?
>
>Is it possible to copy my old laptop harddrive image to a Desktop PC,
then
>install the new drive temporarily as a slave on the PC and install the
>image
>on to it so i can just stick it back in the laptop ??
>
>Thanks
>
>
>Dean
>
>
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regards, Pete
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