User manual SYMANTEC GHOST IMAGING FOUNDATION 7.1

[. . . ] SymantecTM Ghost Imaging Foundation 7. 1 SymantecTM Ghost Imaging Foundation The software described in this book is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms of the agreement. Documentation version 7. 0 Legal Notice Copyright © 2008 Symantec Corporation. Symantec, the Symantec Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U. S. The product described in this document is distributed under licenses restricting its use, copying, distribution, and decompilation/reverse engineering. [. . . ] GDisk can directly access hard disks through the IDE controller or ASPI interface provided by an ASPI driver. Take care when creating partitions for operating systems with inherent partition-size limitations. 78 Managing partitions using GDisk Support for large hard-disks Chapter 6 Manipulating files and directories using OmniFS This chapter includes the following topics: About OmniFS OmniFS operating environments Using OmniFS OmniFS operations Using OmniFS to recover files Using a script file OmniFS scenarios OmniFS error handling Correcting the date and time About OmniFS OmniFS is a general-purpose utility for manipulating files and directories in a locally attached NTFS, FAT, or EXT3 file system (including hidden partitions). OmniFS32 performs the same functions but runs them in a Windows environment. The Linux version, omnifs, performs the corresponding functions under Linux. OmniFS performs selected file input/output operations on a file system that is not accessible from a utility's operating environment. OmniFS supports scripting and batch mode execution. 80 Manipulating files and directories using OmniFS OmniFS operating environments OmniFS operating environments Table 6-1 lists the versions of OmniFS. Table 6-1 Executable OmniFS. exe omnifs OmniFS32 OmniFS versions Operating system PC-DOS, MS-DOS Linux Windows Vista/XP/2000 Long file names are supported on NTFS file systems, but support for long file names on FAT file systems depends on the operating system and access method. If you use the OmniFS library to access a file system, then long file names are supported. You can use the access method switches to directly access a file system. Using OmniFS You can execute OmniFS from the command line only. Running OmniFS without any arguments provides a list of the interfaces and lists the access method switches. The following interfaces are supported for OmniFS. exe, OmniFS32. exe, and omnifs for Linux: omnifs [/accessmethods]<operation to Performs the file operation and exits. It uses the perform> <operation arguments, if exit code to signal whether or not the operation any> was successful, making it suitable for batch mode execution. omnifs [/accessmethods]script<script Performs all of the operations that are nominated file name> in the script file and exits. If any operation in the script file is unsuccessful, the script stops running and the utility exits, which signifies that the operation failed. omnifs help Lists the available commands. To run OmniFS32 in Microsoft Vista, you must run the command prompt as an administrator. Manipulating files and directories using OmniFS Using OmniFS 81 To run the command prompt as an administrator 1 2 3 On the taskbar, click Start > All Programs > Accessories, right-click Command Prompt and click Run as administrator. In the User Account Control dialog box, type the administrator credentials. Click OK. Access method switches Table 6-2 lists the access method switches that you can use in any operation. Not all access methods are relevant to the Win32 version, OmniFS32. exe. Table 6-2 Switch /ad=image file name /addDisk=image file name /cp=codepage Access method switches Description Mounts the specified vmdk, pqi, v2i, or iv2i image file ("add" the image as a disk). Once added, a vmdk disk can be used in all normal operations, but the pqi, v2i, and iv2i disks are read-only. Handles the code page in the same way as the current OEM page. Specifies that the preferred file system access is through the application file system code. Specifies that the preferred volume access is through the application volume code. [. . . ] Refer to your network adapter manual for more information on changing the IRQ address of your card. DOS drivers can also have problems detecting the type and speed of your network. A DOS configuration utility that may have been supplied by the network card manufacturer lets you set these explicitly. Problems running Symantec Ghost Some errors may occur that do not produce an error code. Cloning Windows 2000/XP computers If a Windows 2000/XP computer fails to start after being cloned it may not have the correct mass storage controller driver configured and loaded for the hardware on which it starts. This failure may be due to hardware differences between the source and destination computers. [. . . ]