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OS Recovery from a Larger Disk Image
The following procedure should be used to restore an Operating
System when the destination disk is smaller than the source image
(e.g., OS Recovery was made on a 10 GB source disk, but is being
recovered on a 6 GB drive).
1. Boot the system.
If you are using an external CD-ROM, you should see a message
during boot indicating that the CD-ROM has been recognized:
Micro Solutions BACKPACK CD-ROM v0.3
. . .
Booting from BACKPACK CD
Starting MS-DOS
2. Follow the DOS screen prompts. After each entry, you are asked to
confirm your input. You can use 1 or y for Yes, 2 or n for No.
3. Enter No at the Disk verification question.
4. Select which type of recovery you want to perform (normally
option #1).
1) Redo entire disk with the first partition the same size.
2) Redo the first OS partition.
3) Redo the second OS partition.
5. At the Press any key to continue dialog box, press [CTRL]-C to abort
the process. When asked Terminate batch job?, answer Y.
6. From the command prompt, change to drive Z, which is the
location of the Ghost software (CD-ROM drive).
7. Run the Ghost command.
Ghost.exe
8. Press Enter.
9. Select Local – Disk – From Image, and press Enter.
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