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Ghost 2003 - What does identifying the disk mean?

Mar 6, 2005 6:50AM PST

Backing up my hard drive on a CD using Ghost 2003 has been a daunting and frustrating task. I have one computer, whose hard disk I want to backup, in case it goes bad again at some future date. I just installed a new hard drive and don't want to go through the time consuming task of reinstalling all the software and their settings all over again. Please, anyone with knowledge about Ghost 2003, I need help with the procedure of backing up my hard drive on CDs. (I am aware of other ways of transferring data from a defective hard drive to a new one, but I want help backing up with CD's, and only one computer is available).

The Ghost setup procedure goes smoothly until I get to the part about in the Add Ghost Disk Identification dialog box, identify the disk. Can someone give me an example of how I identify a disk? Anyway, I did not see this dialog box, and proceeded with producing 3 CDs of my hard drive. Task Log indicates the backup was successful.

When I try to check the integrity of the image files on the 3 CDs, I get lost. I open the Image Integrity Check, click Next and there's a box labelled Image file name, which is blank. I click Browse and find a file in My Computer, GHOST_001[DHappy and a sub-file CDR0001.GHO.
That's as far as I get. What's the next step? Confused

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Step 6 of...
Mar 6, 2005 6:59AM PST
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Article does not address the use of CDs for backing up
Mar 7, 2005 4:10AM PST

Thanks for the link, but it does not address may specific need regarding utilizing CDs for Ghost 2003 backup---I don't want to clone my hard drive.

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Try...
Mar 7, 2005 4:16AM PST

Your question about what this step meant.

Is there another step you need to address?

Bob

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Nope, that's it.
Mar 7, 2005 5:54AM PST

Without the image integrity check verifying that the 3 CDs are okay, their use for a backup is suspect at best. Remember, I'm depending on them to transfer information to a new hard drive, if the old one becomes defective. I don't want to discover that the files recorded on the CDs were corrupted, when it's too late.

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This is why...
Mar 7, 2005 6:58AM PST

One never makes just one copy...

Bob