Image CD

To use Ghost with your recorder you must first stage the images to a second HD or partition. At this time Ghost cannot write directly to CDs. You should use a boot disk to enter DOS if you plan to image a HD with an OS. Once in DOS you will want to start Ghost, and select partition to image. Cause we plan to put the image on CDs; we must use the split command. This will tell ghost to make the large image in to manageable chunks. In my examples we will be using "split=600", to make 600M chunks. You can either start Ghost by typing "Ghost -split=600" or make a text file that has all the switches you will want.

What if I already made the image, can I split it, or must I re image using the Split command?

That depends on the version of Ghost and Ghost explorer you have. If it's lower than V6 you will need to re image. If its V6 or higher you can use Ghost explorer to split an image. For more on how to do this click here.

Lets use a text file for this example. First open notepad. You will use this to make your text files. Each switch should be on its own line.

-SPLIT=600

-autoname

-z

Now save that text file with the name span.txt. put it in the same directory as Ghost. To make this all simple, make a temp folder on a HD. Put all your stuff in that folder. Including a copy of Ghost. This text file when run like this

"ghost @span.txt"

will start ghost up in the GUI, and tell ghost to split the large image in to 600M chunks. The autoname will tell ghost to name each chunk (back.gho, back.001, back.002 and so on). And the -Z will tell ghost to compress the image a little. You can add any number 1-9 to set the amount of compression. (-Z5).