Comments on Techbytes: Lenovo (formerly IBM) Thinkpad and Ghosting

Exactly what I was looking for, thank you. I was w...

2011-06-12T10:56:57.477-04:00

Exactly what I was looking for, thank you. I was wondering why the #%@ it wasn't working. All I was trying to do was replace the 120GB disk with a 500GB disk but it would just blink.

Thank you again, worked like a charm.

To Anonymous, I really don't like managed serv...

2009-12-20T21:01:52.715-05:00

To Anonymous, I really don't like managed services per se; so I cannot speak to your specific question. The only thing I have used to do remote help (outside the controlled enterprise network) is Logmein. Inside the enterprise, I have numerous tools available to do all those things.

Someone else got advise?

Delco

Can anyone recommend the top performing MSP softwa...

2009-12-20T10:09:07.468-05:00

Can anyone recommend the top performing MSP software for a small IT service company like mine? Does anyone use Kaseya.com or GFI.com? How do they compare to these guys I found recently: N-able N-central network monitoring
? What is your best take in cost vs performance among those three? I need a good advice please... Thanks in advance!

I had the same problem, the cursor just blinking a...

2009-07-09T10:13:34.772-04:00

I had the same problem, the cursor just blinking after ghosting. However, I got it to work if I performed the ghosting using the bootable Norton Ghost Recovery Disk on the target computer.

I have only had to do this when we have had a prob...

2008-02-09T11:59:00.000-05:00

I have only had to do this when we have had a problem. Also, we noticed that in a couple of cases, after we did everything that is stated above, we had a few that still did not boot - what we did then, was Old School - we booted with a floppy (usb), and an old Win98 boot disk with FDISK, and ran FDISK /MBR to fix the boot record.

The following is from Symantec's site:
When creating an image or copying disk to disk, the -IB switch (Image Boot) forces a sector-by-sector copy, and copies the entire boot track; not just the boot sector.

Use this switch when applications, such as some boot-time utilities, use the boot track to store information.

* You cannot perform partition-to-partition or partition-to-image operations with the -IB switch.
* Partition sizes cannot be altered when using the -IB switch.

What if the new Lenovo Think Center MT6075 does no...

2008-02-07T14:47:00.000-05:00

What if the new Lenovo Think Center MT6075 does not have a Predesktop setting in security in BIOS? Will the Ghost -IB still work?

Mr.fixit@iup.edu