Ghost Solution Suite

Hello,

we are using Symantec Ghost Console 8.0.

We created a Ghost-image of a modelcomputer with one disc and one partition and would like to restore it on another notebook.
While installing the image, Ghost should be partition the targetdisc. Partition one should have 60% of discspace and partition two should have the other 40%.

We tested among other things those command line options:
-clone,mode=restore,src=g:\2prtdisk.gho,dst=1sze1=60P,sze2=40P
-clone,mode=restore,src=g:\2prtdisk.gho,dst=1,sze1=20000M,sze2=10000M

On the client computer, we started ghost.exe and selected a unicast session.
Ghost doesn't partition the discdrive, it only restored the whole disc with one partition.


Who can help us solving this problem?

Best regards,
Kai Bergmann

Hi Kai,

Unfortunately, I don't think what you are trying will work.
The reason being, the sze1=x,sze2=y switch only resizes partitions that are already in the image file.
In your case, since your source image only contains 1 partition, it will only be able to resize the first partition.

You have 2 options here. (as far as I can see)
1) Re-create your source image to have 2 partitions.

2) Run restore operation twice.
-clone,mode=restore,src=g:\2prtdisk.gho,dst=1,sze1=60P
-clone,mode=prestore,src=g:\ntfs.gho:1,dst=1:2
The first restore restores your model image, the 2nd restores a blank NTFS image partition, achieving your desired goal of having 2 partitions. (You will have to take an image of a blank NTFS partition named ntfs.gho first though.)

Hope that helps

Chris