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I-OPENER Images Using Norton Ghost (modified 0 times) Enkrypter Profile Here's a Bright idea. Someone should get a system working with all the hardware detected and working and when everythink is fine they should image the hd, save it on i-drive or a place like that and link it here for people to D/L? Then all you would have to do is put the hd that you are going to have in your I-OPENER in your computer as a slve and ghost the mo-fo! then remove, place in I-OPENER and Voila`! A working os and no #### to take because some nice soul spent five mins doing something nice? Just for your info I don't have an I opener, I am considdering the purchase of one, and have been reading lots of messages, and a lot seem to be the concern of common windows and Linux problems I thought this might help aleviate some of them. Just a thought, Enkrypter vp of CitadeL Industries 07-24-2000 17:11:12

RE:I-OPENER Images Using Norton Ghost (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile Of course someone could do it.....but you'd be crazy. Illegal as hell. Hacking this thing was not illegal....just fun. Win98 is an easy install. You probably only need to get the video driver....try it. 07-24-2000 18:47:20

RE:I-OPENER Images Using Norton Ghost (modified 0 times) -pyr- Profile there is a problem in this, in that people will have things set up differently so an image will not always work well. everyone would have to keep the exact same BIOS settings, and have the same hardware. even something as simple as a new sound chip on a V5 or a Rise CPU could cause conflicts (win98 would easily readapt and select the proper drivers when it could, but conflicts can result). Overall, the hassle is just simply not worth the trouble you have to go thru. Plus MS would take a very dim view to such practises. 07-24-2000 21:01:17

RE:From Enkrypter (modified 0 times) Enkrypter Profile Sorry Guys I wasn't thinking this was really a stupid idea on my part, images only work on the same size hd as the one cloned so this would mess up a larger hd. On the other hand, an prog like Partition magic might just find the extra space and be able to fix it up , and this would be very simple. Sorry, this was a bad post. I do however have a friend with an i opener and he can't seem to get the hd going, his bios is v4.0 no goop, and hd is detected by the bios but there is boot failure. The drive is a lap top hd fujitsu 12.5 gig. If anyone has Ideas, Please send help! Enkrypter vp of CitadeL Industries 07-25-2000 14:10:43

RE:I-OPENER Images Using Norton Ghost (modified 0 times) Kudzu Profile Here's one. Remove your HDD, take it over to HIS house, and flash the bios back to v1 with it. Problem solved. -Kudzu (The Vine you just can't get rid of.) 07-25-2000 14:48:18

RE:I-OPENER Images Using Norton Ghost (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile This sounds like the old problem... Make the partition active (bootable). Running Format C: /s from a Dos Prompt (using another computer) will format the drive, make it active, and you can then boot to DOS on it. 07-25-2000 14:53:54

RE:I-OPENER Images Using Norton Ghost (modified 0 times) -pyr- Profile slight correction to what ckbone said. you need to first use somethingl like fdisk to set the partition active, *then* use format with the /s switch (format is not capable of making a drive active) 07-25-2000 18:21:14

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