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Updated on 2025-04-12

Don't be afraid of collapse. Ghost simplifies computer room management

Frequent system crashes and reinstallation of the system in the school computer room have caused many inconveniences to the computer room management teachers. Through practice, we have found a set of simple and quick methods to share with everyone. In principle, it is to use the well-known Ghost software to create a mirror of the hard disk primary partition, and then restore the main partition from the mirror when needed.
We are using Norton Ghost 2001. The advantage is that its two applications can work in the command line mode, making partition mirroring, hiding partitions, unhiding and restoring partitions, etc.
All operations can be executed in DOS state using batch files.
Our school’s student computer hard drive is unified on the main partition C drive, installing the Windows 98 system and all required software (2GB space). Create two logical disks D and E (both 2GB) in the extension partition, copy the two applications to the E disk, and use the batch files provided below to generate a mirror file for the entire C disk content, place it in the E disk, and use hidden E disk.
The file, the content is as follows:
@echo off
e:
ghostpe - clone,mode=pdump,src=1:1,dst=e:
gdisk 1 /hide/p:4
Once you need to restore the C drive, you can use the batch files provided below, first unhide the E drive, and then restart the computer before using the batch files to restore the C drive. The following is the contents of the batch file.
The file, the content is as follows:
@echo off
gdisk 1 /-hide /p:4
The file, the content is as follows:
@echo off
e:
ghostpe-clone,mode=pload,src=e:win
:1,dst=1:1
gdisk 1 /hide /p:4
You can use a floppy disk at work, first copy the DOS startup file of Windows 98, and copy the two applications of Norton Ghost 2001 and the three batch files provided above to the floppy disk. If necessary, execute the corresponding batch file.
The above method can simplify management work. You might as well try it, as it may result in unexpected results. Article entry: dnbm     Editor: dnbm