[JAWSLite] Re: Disk imaging and partition creating with jaws 9

Hello there,
I use Ghost from the Norton 2003 Suite..and it works quite well from a 
floppy drive.
I found a tutorial somewhere..not sure now...and it showed how to modify the 
autoexec.bat file on the floppy so I can clone my systm HD to a spare hd and 
have an exact copy of the system drive.
everything copies even the Jaws 4.5 key.
When my system gets infected or just acts too wierd to deal with..
I hook up the spare hd to my secondary IDE cable as a master drive and clone 
it back onto the interior HD.
I then do minor fixes..like copying my backed up mail to the interior drive 
again..updating my virus program..updating my spyware program..
and reloading my IE favorite wev sites.
about every 2 months I copy these two floppies over onto two new fresh 
floppies to be sure they will work right when I need them again.
the cloning process goes pretty fast..
here is my entire process step by step.:
turn my system off,
unhook my DVD burner from the secondary IDE cable.
Hook up my spare HD to this cable.
insert my backup floppy..
it is setup to copy from drive 1 to drive 3.
My system now looks like this...
drive 1 is the system drive, drive 2 is my data hard drive, and drive 3 is 
the backup clone hard drive.
I turn the system back on and let it boot from the floppy.
I can hear the floppy grinding away.
in my autoexec.bat file is a line that reads.
a:\warble.exe
I found this DOS program somewhere on the net.
it makes a phone ringing sound out of the computers interior speaker.
I have this line in the autoexec bat file 3 times.
after the 3 warbles...the grinding continues a bit more.
the ghost program loads and starts the copy.
if this is the very first time this has been done on this system I have to 
hit  the enter key one time to get past a message screen.
then the cloning starts..
I count to 30 to be sure then remove the floppy.
when the system is cloned..the system will auto reboot.
I check both hard drives..1 and 3 to be sure they look alike..
they are both 80 gig drives so the size used and free should match.
then I power down..remove the third drive and rehook up the dvd burner.
I could probably use this same system to backup drive 1 to drive 3, but I 
know this process will take much longer as it reads and compressed files 
from drive 1 onto drive 3.
and all is well again in my little blind world.
but if one is blind and does not wish to do all this hooking up and 
unhooking up..I guess the backup would be the route to go.
as I had sight once and did it this way then..it seems natural for me to 
continue doing it the same way.
if u wish to see my autoexec.bat file let me know.]
the 2003 version of Ghost works fine with XP NTFS drives too.

Robert



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