Imaging with Ghost
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Imaging from a CD
A quick and easy way to restore an image to a machine is to have the image on a CD. It is not uncommon to even train teachers to re-image their own machines using a CD and boot disk stored with the computer.
Begin by creating an image in the usual manner, and saving the image on a file server. Copy the image to a machine with a CD burner, and burn the image as well as the imaging client software onto the CD. In addition to the CD, you will need to make a boot disk that has the drivers for the CD ROM drive. A Windows 95 or 98 original boot disk should have these drivers. You can get a boot disk for pretty much anything at
Boot from the floppy. Change directory to the CD drive. Run the client and restore the image.
One problem associated with using a CD for an image is the file size limit. A CD can only hold about 700 Mb of information. Even if the image has good compression (50% of the restored data size), that would require the original size of the hard drive contents to be less than 2 GB. Most imaging software can create an image that spans several CD's. Look into this if you want to use CD's as a way to store large images.
