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| Ghost saves the day [message #65173] |
Sun, 05 March 2006 18:17  |
Rob Arsenault
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Showed up this morn for a heavy day of tracking, I notice the Paris box
frozen stiff, hard reset, then box wont even boot, all fan and HD spinning
but no beeps. I reset the AGP and PCI cards and the computer comes back to
life but my displays have all changed resolution and the Matrox 450 will not
let me set them back to 1280 x 1024, tells me to check my device manager
which is fine, no flags anywhere. Meanwhile, the client shows up and starts
to warm up in the booth. I whip out the old Norton boot diskette and re-load
an image from Jan 10th. Back in business, displays are fine and the client
never even noticed. Lesson to be learnt, ghosting is your friend.....!!
Rob A
www.studiomanitou.com
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| Re: Ghost saves the day [message #65188 is a reply to message #65173] |
Mon, 06 March 2006 08:39  |
Rod Lincoln
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Totally.couldn't get along without it.
Rod
"Rob Arsenault" <mani2@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>Showed up this morn for a heavy day of tracking, I notice the Paris box
>frozen stiff, hard reset, then box wont even boot, all fan and HD spinning
>but no beeps. I reset the AGP and PCI cards and the computer comes back
to
>life but my displays have all changed resolution and the Matrox 450 will
not
>let me set them back to 1280 x 1024, tells me to check my device manager
>which is fine, no flags anywhere. Meanwhile, the client shows up and starts
>to warm up in the booth. I whip out the old Norton boot diskette and re-load
>an image from Jan 10th. Back in business, displays are fine and the client
>never even noticed. Lesson to be learnt, ghosting is your friend.....!!
>
>Rob A
>www.studiomanitou.com
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| Re: Ghost saves the day [message #65194 is a reply to message #65188] |
Mon, 06 March 2006 11:38 |
Rich[3]
Messages: 132
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Same here -- saved me more than once... well worth the cost.
"Rod Lincoln" <rlincoln@nospam.kc.rr.com> wrote:
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>Totally.couldn't get along without it.
>Rod
>"Rob Arsenault" <mani2@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>>Showed up this morn for a heavy day of tracking, I notice the Paris box
>>frozen stiff, hard reset, then box wont even boot, all fan and HD spinning
>>but no beeps. I reset the AGP and PCI cards and the computer comes back
>to
>>life but my displays have all changed resolution and the Matrox 450 will
>not
>>let me set them back to 1280 x 1024, tells me to check my device manager
>>which is fine, no flags anywhere. Meanwhile, the client shows up and starts
>>to warm up in the booth. I whip out the old Norton boot diskette and re-load
>>an image from Jan 10th. Back in business, displays are fine and the client
>>never even noticed. Lesson to be learnt, ghosting is your friend.....!!
>>
>>Rob A
>>www.studiomanitou.com
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>>
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| Re: Ghost saves the day [message #65197 is a reply to message #65173] |
Mon, 06 March 2006 11:14 |
duncan
Messages: 123
Registered: November 2006
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Hey Rob --
Would you care to explain to a Ghost newbie (me) what happens next?
What I mean is -- you boot from the Norton disk, then "re-load image"
-- from where? Where (on cdr or other drive?) is this image stored?
Then -- I guess -- Ghost re-builds system from image and that's when
you start smiling, right?
Just haven't been through this yet, and confess I still have some
difficulty understanding the process... Scary... But, obviously,
worth knowing about...
thanks -- Chas.
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 22:17:52 -0400, "Rob Arsenault" <mani2@nbnet.nb.ca>
wrote:
>Showed up this morn for a heavy day of tracking, I notice the Paris box
>frozen stiff, hard reset, then box wont even boot, all fan and HD spinning
>but no beeps. I reset the AGP and PCI cards and the computer comes back to
>life but my displays have all changed resolution and the Matrox 450 will not
>let me set them back to 1280 x 1024, tells me to check my device manager
>which is fine, no flags anywhere. Meanwhile, the client shows up and starts
>to warm up in the booth. I whip out the old Norton boot diskette and re-load
>an image from Jan 10th. Back in business, displays are fine and the client
>never even noticed. Lesson to be learnt, ghosting is your friend.....!!
>
>Rob A
>www.studiomanitou.com
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| Re: Ghost saves the day [message #65201 is a reply to message #65197] |
Mon, 06 March 2006 15:58 |
Rob Arsenault
Messages: 152
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Hi Chas
basically, here is what I do: I make sure I have a sweet running setup with
all configs....etc, then I create a bootable diskette via the Norton Ghost
software(you only need to create this diskette once), if running 98SE or ME,
I find Norton Ghost 2003 excellent, if running XP, then to the best of my
knowledge, you need the latest version of Ghost because of the NTFS file
structure. Then I boot with this diskette and make it to the program GUI of
Ghost were I choose to create an image from partition. One can also create
an image of an entire drive if you choose. Since I have my OS and progs
installed on a partition, I select this partition and create my image
(usually around a 1.5gig file) which I store on one of my data drives.
Now comes the emergency, I boot from the same diskette but instead of
creating an image, I select restore partition from image, that's it, reboot
after this process and your box is restored to a prior working config.
Good luck bro.
Rob_A
"Chas. Duncan" <duncan5199ATsbcglobalDOTnet@> wrote in message
news:of2p021ubut4rh1buo7herehut73816lgq@4ax.com...
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> Hey Rob --
>
> Would you care to explain to a Ghost newbie (me) what happens next?
> What I mean is -- you boot from the Norton disk, then "re-load image"
> -- from where? Where (on cdr or other drive?) is this image stored?
> Then -- I guess -- Ghost re-builds system from image and that's when
> you start smiling, right?
>
> Just haven't been through this et, and confess I still have some
> difficulty understanding the process... Scary... But, obviously,
> worth knowing about...
>
> thanks -- Chas.
>
>
> On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 22:17:52 -0400, "Rob Arsenault" <mani2@nbnet.nb.ca>
> wrote:
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> >Showed up this morn for a heavy day of tracking, I notice the Paris box
> >frozen stiff, hard reset, then box wont even boot, all fan and HD
spinning
> >but no beeps. I reset the AGP and PCI cards and the computer comes back
to
> >life but my displays have all changed resolution and the Matrox 450 will
not
> >let me set them back to 1280 x 1024, tells me to check my device manager
> >which is fine, no flags anywhere. Meanwhile, the client shows up and
starts
> >to warm up in the booth. I whip out the old Norton boot diskette and
re-load
> >an image from Jan 10th. Back in business, displays are fine and the
client
> >never even noticed. Lesson to be learnt, ghosting is your friend.....!!
> >
> >Rob A
> >www.studiomanitou.com
> >
>
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| Re: Ghost saves the day [message #65202 is a reply to message #65201] |
Mon, 06 March 2006 18:43 |
duncan
Messages: 123
Registered: November 2006
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Thanks Rob -- couldn't be clearer... And the proof is: even I
understand it...
moving on with confidence -- Chas.
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:58:36 -0400, "Rob Arsenault"
<mani2@NOSPAMnbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>Hi Chas
>basically, here is what I do: I make sure I have a sweet running setup with
>all configs....etc, then I create a bootable diskette via the Norton Ghost
>software(you only need to create this diskette once), if running 98SE or ME,
>I find Norton Ghost 2003 excellent, if running XP, then to the best of my
>knowledge, you need the latest version of Ghost because of the NTFS file
>structure. Then I boot with this diskette and make it to the program GUI of
>Ghost were I choose to create an image from partition. One can also create
>an image of an entire drive if you choose. Since I have my OS and progs
>installed on a partition, I select this partition and create my image
>(usually around a 1.5gig file) which I store on one of my data drives.
>
>Now comes the emergency, I boot from the same diskette but instead of
>creating an image, I select restore partition from image, that's it, reboot
>after this process and your box is restored to a prior working config.
>Good luck bro.
>
>Rob_A
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>"Chas. Duncan" <duncan5199ATsbcglobalDOTnet@> wrote in message
>news:of2p021ubut4rh1buo7herehut73816lgq@4ax.com...
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>> Hey Rob --
>>
>> Would you care to explain to a Ghost newbie (me) what happens next?
>> What I mean is -- you boot from the Norton disk, then "re-load image"
>> -- from where? Where (on cdr or other drive?) is this image stored?
>> Then -- I guess -- Ghost re-builds system from image and that's when
>> you start smiling, right?
>>
>> Just haven't been through this et, and confess I still have some
>> difficulty understanding the process... Scary... But, obviously,
>> worth knowing about...
>>
>> thanks -- Chas.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 22:17:52 -0400, "Rob Arsenault" <mani2@nbnet.nb.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Showed up this morn for a heavy day of tracking, I notice the Paris box
>> >frozen stiff, hard reset, then box wont even boot, all fan and HD
>spinning
>> >but no beeps. I reset the AGP and PCI cards and the computer comes back
>to
>> >life but my displays have all changed resolution and the Matrox 450 will
>not
>> >let me set them back to 1280 x 1024, tells me to check my device manager
>> >which is fine, no flags anywhere. Meanwhile, the client shows up and
>starts
>> >to warm up in the booth. I whip out the old Norton boot diskette and
>re-load
>> >an image from Jan 10th. Back in business, displays are fine and the
>client
>> >never even noticed. Lesson to be learnt, ghosting is your friend.....!!
>> >
>> >Rob A
>> >www.studiomanitou.com
>> >
>>
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| Re: Ghost saves the day [message #65203 is a reply to message #65173] |
Mon, 06 March 2006 19:47 |
wmarkwilson
Messages: 114
Registered: July 2005
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I am still amazed at how many times, despite this simple life-saver
precaution, the story goes a completely different direction.
W. Mark Wilson
"Rob Arsenault" <mani2@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message news:440b9d24@linux...
> Showed up this morn for a heavy day of tracking, I notice the Paris box
> frozen stiff, hard reset, then box wont even boot, all fan and HD spinning
> but no beeps. I reset the AGP and PCI cards and the computer comes back to
> life but my displays have all changed resolution and the Matrox 450 will
> not
> let me set them back to 1280 x 1024, tells me to check my device manager
> which is fine, no flags anywhere. Meanwhile, the client shows up and
> starts
> to warm up in the booth. I whip out the old Norton boot diskette and
> re-load
> an image from Jan 10th. Back in business, displays are fine and the client
> never even noticed. Lesson to be learnt, ghosting is your friend.....!!
>
> Rob A
> www.studiomanitou.com
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| Re: Ghost saves the day [message #65218 is a reply to message #65173] |
Tue, 07 March 2006 02:08 |
TCB
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Registered: July 2007
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Definitely true to always have good backups, though there are ways other than
Ghost which I think has onerous licensing restrictions.
Also, if it's networked, don't forget to run the security patches and update
the virus definitions when you can. Sometimes that's actually the problem--a
M$oft patch that blew something up--but it's still good to know.
TCB
"Rob Arsenault" <mani2@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>Showed up this morn for a heavy day of tracking, I notice the Paris box
>frozen stiff, hard reset, then box wont even boot, all fan and HD spinning
>but no beeps. I reset the AGP and PCI cards and the computer comes back
to
>life but my displays have all changed resolution and the Matrox 450 will
not
>let me set them back to 1280 x 1024, tells me to check my device manager
>which is fine, no flags anywhere. Meanwhile, the client shows up and starts
>to warm up in the booth. I whip out the old Norton boot diskette and re-load
>an image from Jan 10th. Back in business, displays are fine and the client
>never even noticed. Lesson to be learnt, ghosting is your friend.....!!
>
>Rob A
>www.studiomanitou.com
>
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