Use clonezilla.
Not easy to use, but works perfectly. You must read all of the
prompts.
73, Jim W7RY
On 10/30/2022 4:14 AM, M M wrote:
Years ago (before Norton bought them) I used Ghost to image hard
drives
(I was doing field support for a bank).? it worked elegantly.
I could clone one drive to another (usually larger), or creating
an image file of one drive and
placing the entire image as a single file on another drive.
A company in the UK came up with a very elegant derivation of
Ghost that they called Mayfair.?
I learned about it from a friend that did field service on
CityBank ATMs about 5-10 years ago.?
His company issue thumb drive had two drive volumes on it, when
booted it came up as C (read-only) and as D (read-write).
The image file could be placed on the D: volume of the thumb
drive, on a second thumb drive, or could be written to a
blank DVD in the computer it was running on.
I am now in a situation where I could use a copy of Mayfair,
and the company seems to have evaporated.
Does anybody here have any knowledge of the company that created
Mayfair?? Or contact info??
I remember going to a web site and it was a commercial product.
If they are gone, then is there a really good imaging program
that works as well and as elegantly as
Ghost used to be??? I know how to make a USB drive bootable with
"rufus".
Yes, this request is repeater related.?
i have laptops at each repeater site that can talk to the local
controller, be it RLC or Scom or Arcom.
Teamviewer or VNC makes it easy... And a laptop with nothing but
the OS and a remote access
program and a controller manager would have a very small image.
?
But laptops die at inopportune times.?
I like having a "just in case" image file of the laptop at each
of the sites.? I'd love to be able to refresh
my image file just before I leave a site... just restart the
laptop from my bootable thumb drive, image
the laptop to a file on that thumb drive... when it 's done pull
the thumb drive and restart the laptop
in normal mode.? If the laptop croaks I can drop an image on a
replacement laptop and KNOW that
the new laptop has everything that the site needs...
Ideas??? Comments?
Mike WA6ILQ
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Thanks and 73, Jim W7RY
