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Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 22:29:22 -0600
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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.


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