NCR NCR7454 manual OS Recovery from a Larger Disk Image

Chapter 4: Operating System Recovery 4-25

OS Recovery from a Larger Disk Image

The following procedure should be used to restore an Operating System when the destination disk is smaller than the source image (i.e., OS Recovery was made on a 10 GB source disk, but is being recovered on a 4.3 GB drive).

1. Boot the system.

You should see a message during boot indicating that the CD-ROM has been recognized:

Micro Solutions BACKPACK CD-ROM v0.3

. . .

Booting from BACKPACK CD Starting MS-DOS

2.Follow the DOS screen prompts. After each entry, you are asked to confirm your input. You can use 1 or y for Yes, 2 or n for No.

3.Enter No at the Disk verification question.

4.Select which type of recovery you want to perform from the next menu (normally option #1).

1)Redo entire disk with the first partition the same size.

2)Redo the first OS partition.

3)Redo the second OS partition.

5.At the Press any key to continue dialog box, press [CTRL]-Cto abort the process. When asked Terminate batch job?

Answer Y.

6.From the command prompt, change to drive Z, which is the location of the Ghost software (CD-ROM drive).

7.Run the Ghost command.

Ghost.exe

8.Press Enter.

9. Select Local → Disk → From Image and press Enter.