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From: james{at}nospam.com
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Subject: Worthless Download - Was (Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive)
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 15:18:51 -0600
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On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:17:05 -0500, Some Guy  wrote:

>Ghost 2003:
>
>http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/265545~688de4fa5cfd7a3653cce1c3f147b3d4/
GHOST_BOOTx.zip
>
>Paul wrote:
>
>>> It looks like you are saying that you downloaded the Ghost zipfile. Is
>>> that correct? It is refusing to download for me. It starts downloading 
>>> and fails after about 10 seconds, saying "source could
not be read".
>>>
>>> The file is 1.3mb. It will take a half hour on my dialup, but I can
>>> usually DL files of that size without problems.
>
>The file is 1310 kbytes.


I finally got the hard drive that I ordered online and went to clone to
it. I had downloaded that file (above) called GHOST_BOOTx.zip.
I extracted the .exe from the .zip. I ran it and selected to write to a
floppy. (Image floppy). That all went fine. 

But the whole thing is worthless. The floppy contains "command.com",
autoexec.bat and config.sys (basic DOS). and it has a bunch of CDrom
drivers. It created a folder called GHOST, which is empty. Trying to
start a computer with it, does boot to dos, then it whines about some
files missing, which are more CDrom drivers. 

Apparently it contains NOTHING from Ghost. Why I need CDrom drivers
makes no sense. I'm not using a CD. 

Anyhow, whoever suggested this file, do yourself a favor and delete it.
Its worthless.

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