Symantec Ghost 2003 Parallel Image Creation

[mozzo16]

I am attempting to connect 2 PCs using a parallel laplink cable and create a ghost image of 1 PC on the other.

The image is created fine using Ghost 2003 LPT peer to peer, however, when I come to verify the image, it is corrupt. I have tried to image 3 different PCs and it happens every time. I've also created an image on a different partition of the same PC and that passes the verification, no problem.

Any ideas?

 

[starzwell]

When I do a ghost immage I physically take the hard drive from the "bad" computer and put it into the known "good" computer.

In otherwords: I take the disk I want info copied to and I attach it to the cdrom IDE cable and power in the computer I want to immage from.

I use Ghost 7.0 on a floppy, I boot up the good computer and away I go. This seems to be the easiest way of transfering the info in a large lab sistuation anyway.

 

[mozzo16]

Thanks for the reply Starzwell

The problem I have is that I am in a factory situation where I am having to back up quite old PCs which have no USB port and are difficult to move/open up. They are also validated systems meaning that I do not want to make any kind of changes to the source system. The option of connecting a laptop to the parallel port and ghosting would be ideal if it only worked! There is nothing in the Symantec manual for Ghost 2003 that says that it shouldn't work.
There must be somebody out there who can help??!!!

 

[mozzo16]

Thought I'd let you know the solution.

The CPU frequency on the slave PC must be set low in the bios. Simple as that.