Subj : Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive To : All From : james@nospam.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:21 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.o rg!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: james@nospam.com Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 22:29:22 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: <2e49F9HceGAaFw0R@soft255.demon.co.uk> <9gka0d55a85fgg6d62v76qacjftdvtei72@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: TKghX/mglWkVW1qxlGBsyg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134487 On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 20:23:32 -0500, Some Guy wrote: >Paul wrote: > >> When you unpack the above GHOST_BOOTx.zip file, are >> you finding it corrupted ? There seems to be a problem >> unpacking the second floppy image. The file might have >> been truncated. > >The page where I got the ghost link from is this: > >http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r5620695-Ghost-2003-Floppy-for-BootCD > >The first post gives a direct link to the file. If you click on the >link and download it, you get a file with 1,340,942 bytes and it will >have the current (real-time) date and time. > >The direct link is this (this is what I posted earlier in this thread): > >http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/265545~688de4fa5cfd7a3653cce1c3f147b3d4/ GHOST_BOOTx.zip > >I now see that if you try to download this file using wget, or by >directly entering it into a browser, you get a file with 1,339,806 >bytes, and it has a date of 1/11/2004 (at least that's what I'm seeing). > And it won't unpack. > >It might be that the dslreports server is not giving the entire file >unless your http file request includes this as the referrer url: > >www.dslreports.com/forum/r5620695-Ghost-2003-Floppy-for-BootCD > >wget won't give any referrer URL (unless you specifiy one on the command >line, assuming wget has that ability). > >So in other words, you need to access this page using any browser: > >http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r5620695-Ghost-2003-Floppy-for-BootCD > >And then click on the ghost download link in the first post. > Good grief.... If it's that complicated and confusing, I'm glad I spent the $10 to buy it. By the time I got this thing downloaded I would have spent at least $10 for headache medication...... Actually I think I did get a usable download, at least the zipfile opens, but after I open it, I had no clue what to do with the .EXE inside of it. I'm hoping the CD in my purchased copy will allow me to create a bootable floppy. I'll be doing that using a different computer which has a CD drive, and a USB floppy drive. I cant run a CD drive on the computer I intend to use to clone the hard drives. I need both IDE connectors for drives. There wont be one available for a CD drive. I'm sure one I get this in the mail, I will figure it out from the manual included with it. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .