Using Norton Ghost 9 To Clone My C:\ Drive

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by Beavis

nortons will back up your hard drive every hour if you want it to.

you have to use the back up feature.

I want to be set up where if my C:\ drive fails at a show I can restart the computer and the second drive will take over. How do I do this with Ghost (or Migrate Easy)?

Jim

[bobcox- with the Lord]

Sounds like you want a raid setup.
thats the only way i know to keep going if a hard drive fails.

[gd123]

You might find these links helpful:

http://www.allacronis.com/step-by-step.php

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/h...les/16043.aspx

http://www.technologyquestions.com/t...178-post4.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFdAL7hpYvo

[bryant]

Originally Posted by madjim

I want to be set up where if my C:\ drive fails at a show I can restart the computer and the second drive will take over. How do I do this with Ghost (or Migrate Easy)?

Jim

I bring two laptops or a laptop and a shuttle.

[Beavis]

raid is the way to go !

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by madjim

I want to be set up where if my C:\ drive fails at a show I can restart the computer and the second drive will take over. How do I do this with Ghost (or Migrate Easy)?

Jim

Hey Billy,
I've come to the conclusion that this can not be done. Since I own a copy of Ghost 9 I'm going to try it ONE MORE TIME.

What I plan on doing is making a clone of Drive #1 (my C:\ drive) to Drive #2 making Drive #2 bootable. This will make Drive #2 my C:\ drive. After the clone, I will make sure that Drive #1 is disconected from the computer. This should make the computer boot off of Drive #2 which is now my C:\ and leave a bootable copy of the drive (Drive #1) in my machine for backup. I will have to open my machine to switch the drives but it will be a solid backup solution.

Does this sound like the thing to do or do you have another suggestion?

Thanks

Jim

[billyo]

Originally Posted by madjim

Hey Billy,
I've come to the conclusion that this can not be done. Since I own a copy of Ghost 9 I'm going to try it ONE MORE TIME.

What I plan on doing is making a clone of Drive #1 (my C:\ drive) to Drive #2 making Drive #2 bootable. This will make Drive #2 my C:\ drive. After the clone, I will make sure that Drive #1 is disconected from the computer. This should make the computer boot off of Drive #2 which is now my C:\ and leave a bootable copy of the drive (Drive #1) in my machine for backup. I will have to open my machine to switch the drives but it will be a solid backup solution.

Does this sound like the thing to do or do you have another suggestion?

Thanks

Jim

i have tried that, you can not have 2 os on a single drive, you have to do a partitioned of your c:drive and use the less space for booting up, you have to disconnect the clonned drive, if its connected, once you start up your comp, you will get an error msg. since the cloned drive will now become a c: drive and your int. drive is also a c: drive, in my opinion it's better to clone your int. drive to a bigger drive and swap it, then you can use your ( old )int. drive as a back-up/boot drive

[Beavis]

i have 2 drives running at the same time (cloned) i just switch the jumpers to set the second (back up) drive to slave. the main drive to master.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by Beavis

i have 2 drives running at the same time (cloned) i just switch the jumpers to set the second (back up) drive to slave. the main drive to master.

After you cloned one of your drives, did you disconnect the drive you cloned from your machine before you rebooted?

Did you then shut down your machine and put the original drive in as the slave?

If the drive the computer is ruuning off of fails will the second drive (slave) boot up the computer?

Jim

[Beavis]

i did this on my POS for my restaurant. i added a drive to the computer, cloned it, had it set up all the time to be a slave drive (jumper settings on the hard drive) and left it in the machine.

i use a program called second copy to update the second drive. it will put all the new info from my business on the second drive. if the first drive fails, i just change the jumper settings and away i go.


you should be able to copy your c: drive to another drive and just replacve your c: drive with the copied drive and have everything just as it was!


make sure when you replace the original drive with the copied drive you set up the jumpers to be the master drive.

was this clear jim??

i think a raid card would be what you really want, it puts all the info all the time on 2 or more drives if you want and if one fails, just unplug it and restart.

[madjim- with the Lord]

The fog is starting to lift, thanks Beav.

I have heard of raid but never used it. Sounds like it would do what I'm wanting to do but is there a draw back to using it?

Jim

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Beavis

i have 2 drives running at the same time (cloned) i just switch the jumpers to set the second (back up) drive to slave. the main drive to master.

i am trying to understand what youre saying, both of these drives has the same os? caused when you boot up your pc it will be talking to both of the drives, unless you went in the bios and changed how you boot up your system like you have your cloned drive to boot up first and second drive next?..but anyway if it works for you ..who am i to say it can't

[Beavis]

when you change the jumper settings on the hard drive itself, it doesnt look for the slave drive to boot to.



hey jim i just wanted to make sure we are on the same page, no disrespect from me, and none taken

[ddouglass]

Jim if you are using SATA drives (small cable instead of wide ribbon cable), then you have Raid capability already. You would need two drives identical in size to do this. What happens is when anything changes on one disk the other is automatically updated. This is called mirroring (I forget what raid level it is but can find out if you want to try it). If drive 0 fails drive 1 takes over and automatically becomes the working drive. You get a warning message that the drive has failed, but the computer keeps on working.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by billyo

i have tried that, you can not have 2 os on a single drive,

I'm not doing this Billy.

you have to do a partitioned of your c:drive and use the less space for booting up, you have to disconnect the clonned drive, if its connected,

"I will make sure that Drive #1 is disconected from the computer." That's what I ment by this statement.

once you start up your comp, you will get an error msg. since the cloned drive will now become a c: drive and your int. drive is also a c: drive, in my opinion it's better to clone your int. drive to a bigger drive and swap it, then you can use your ( old )int. drive as a back-up/boot drive

That is basically what I was describing.

My explaination may not have been the best, thanks for your input.

Jim