I've got a problem that I'm quite sure how to address. I've seen several sites that suggest how to do it, but none quite fit my predicament.
I need to upgrade some software on a hundred or so old NT machines for a customer. One key piece of development software is no longer available (trust me, they've searched everywhere), but the development environment does exist within a ghost backup from an old PC they had (which no longer exists) when they bought the other machines.
What I want to do is somehow restore this ghost image into a new VMware Workstation 8 machine. How would you attack this? I don't know the version of Ghost that was used, but the INF file says it was created in Feb 2000. Would I first create a new VMware machine, and boot it with a Norton Ghost boot disk? I haven't used Norton Ghost for a long, long time, and don't remember the intricacies. Can I just use any version to create a boot disk? I really don't want to install Norton on my PC because some Symantec stuff doesn't play well with some of my other software and I will never need Ghost again, but the customer might be able to create one from whatever version they are using. Once I have restored this Ghost image, I'll be able to make changes and push them down to the other PCs.
I've also seen references to some command line scripts that would convert the GHO to a VMDK file, but there were all kinds of qualifiers, and it didn't seem like it would work in my case.
This is just one of those oddball things I run into every ten years, and I was hoping some IT guy would know what I'm talking about.
I need to upgrade some software on a hundred or so old NT machines for a customer. One key piece of development software is no longer available (trust me, they've searched everywhere), but the development environment does exist within a ghost backup from an old PC they had (which no longer exists) when they bought the other machines.
What I want to do is somehow restore this ghost image into a new VMware Workstation 8 machine. How would you attack this? I don't know the version of Ghost that was used, but the INF file says it was created in Feb 2000. Would I first create a new VMware machine, and boot it with a Norton Ghost boot disk? I haven't used Norton Ghost for a long, long time, and don't remember the intricacies. Can I just use any version to create a boot disk? I really don't want to install Norton on my PC because some Symantec stuff doesn't play well with some of my other software and I will never need Ghost again, but the customer might be able to create one from whatever version they are using. Once I have restored this Ghost image, I'll be able to make changes and push them down to the other PCs.
I've also seen references to some command line scripts that would convert the GHO to a VMDK file, but there were all kinds of qualifiers, and it didn't seem like it would work in my case.
This is just one of those oddball things I run into every ten years, and I was hoping some IT guy would know what I'm talking about.