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by taichi2

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I'm new to this so be gentle. Have 4 computers which share a DSL router and hub. I'm wanting to ghost the HDDs to one machine using Norton Ghost.
The software ask me to map the drive. The machine I want to map is named Pentium. It has 2 HDD with the 2nd disk partitioned into 4 drives. I want the image to go to the F drive on this disk. So I thought the syntax should be \\Pentium\F but Norton insists on no subfolders. What am I doing wrong?

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by sgt_shultz

i am not sure i understand your question, so be gentle. what os? try this: \\pentium\F$
and give more details?

by taichi2

2 machines are using Win98 SE and 2 are using Win ME. Using Norton System Works Professional edition to image the drives. The machine that has the bachup drive is a Win Me machine.

by vinnyd

Go to a DOS prompt and type

net use Z: \\Pentium\F

That will create a drive letter on the computer you want to ghost called Z: and will be the F: drive on the Pentium computer.

When norton asks for where to put the file use the Z: drive tosave it too.

by dwdino

1) Go to "pentium" and create a network share
a) Open my Computer
b) right click on F
c) choose sharing

2) boot pc to ghost (I assume from boot floppy or CD)
* Your boot drive must have network capabilities
a) when dos prompt showsup, enter the following:
net use i: \\pentium\f
b) launch ghost and image to I:

A common solution to this issue is to place the ghost executable on the share (in this instance f) and use a network boot disk (http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network).

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