[ellhn]

Dear Scott,
I have Norton Ghost version 10 and I want to set up a small Lan of 10 PCs which are identical. By setting up the first one I tried to create an image on an external USB hard drive as to use it on the remaining nine PCs. First of all, Ghost cannot create this image directly on the external hard disk (do not know why). By trying to copy the recovery image from the disk of the first PC to the external USB device, that was possible. However, the recovery procedure from a second PC was unsuccessful. Do you have any idea about that? What do I have to do as not to set up ten PCs one by one?
Thank you a lot

[NeedKarma]

Using Ghost we created an image then copied to a CD. We used that for remote site imaging.

[benn11]

Why don't you copy it on local HD and move it to external HD?

[NeedKarma]

Benn,
You often need to boot to the image and not many PCs can boot to an external HD (as far as I understand it).

[ScottGem]

Ghost allows you to create a bootable CD that can then be used to image the other PCs. However, the PCs have to be EXACTLY identical AND you need to deal with the Windows licensing issue. You can't use the same license on mutliple machines. I'm not sure how to deal with that issue. You might contact Microsoft or Symantec.

P.S. please don't ask questions via e-mail or PM

[ggardei]

Ghost CAN write to an external hard drive if you have USB support and USB drivers for the external hard drive on the ghost boot disk. (Note, you may have to use Ghost 2003 boot disk)

I have done this before. Here is the kicker, you have to find the compatible USB driver for the hard drive (For example, my WD MyBook 160GB drive, I used IOMEGA drivers... ) This takes trial and error.

Here is the website I used to get this to work

Bootdisk.Com - DOS USB Drivers

A suggestion, why not store the image on a mapped network drive?

For the record... my favorite hd utility is Paragon's Hard Disk Manager 8! Check it out. It is many times better then ghost (and it does partition moving and resizing too!)