Norton Ghost and OQO

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[JPJ]

I have a Model 01 which I just upgraded with a 32gb SSD. However, the Windows XP install process was tedious (includingthe need to manually direct the Windows installer to the i386 folder to locate over 20 different install files, and then having to manually install most of the OQO drivers (Wacom, Bluetooth, Audio, etc.)).

Consequently, I planned to use an old version of Norton Ghost (2003) to "image" the SSD so that I wouldn't have to again waste two hours setting up the OQO if it fell victim to a virus (I don't use anti-virus software because it is too taxing on my feeble OQO 01). However, after several attempts to back up my OQO to a Ghost image, I have not yet successfully been able to do it because the OQO doesn't seem to like booting to the "virtual partition" created by Ghost.

Does anyone have any experience with a problem like this, or can someone suggest another drive imaging application that is known to work on the OQO? Any information is greatly appreciated.

[kappa02]

I run NG v9 on my OqO2, Ghost image stored in another partition of the OqO's HDD, successful recovery using the Norton CD.
I think v9 is from 2004, Symantec purchased PowerQuest in 2003, read about but it won't help you find a solution.

1. Where is stored your Ghost image?
2. Compressed?
3. Have you verified the backup image file?
=> Symantec Backup Image Browser, in Start Menu/Programs
4. Booting...bus powered USB CD drive? Change for an adapter powered one. BIOS settings?

The PC is not booting into the virtual partition, Norton is booting from the Symantec recovery CD and copies the backup image file over "where you have told him to"

Hope this gives you paths to explore.

     

[marcosfish]

Good afternoon, I used Acronis to image my old DHH form a Fujitsu U810 that received an SSD drive. Might work on the OQO.

Could you tell me the type of SSD you got with the connection type required when look the SSD. I do not find any information on the type of connection required to upgrade my HHD OQO model 01+ to a SSD drive and every company I spoke with, they seem clueless unless I tell tjem what I need. Can anyone help?

Thank you

[JPJ]

Could you tell me the type of SSD you got with the connection type required when look the SSD. I do not find any information on the type of connection required to upgrade my HHD OQO model 01+ to a SSD drive and every company I spoke with, they seem clueless unless I tell tjem what I need. Can anyone help?

I bought a 50 pin 1.8" KingSpec 32GB SSD (Model No. KSD-CF18.1-032MJ). I had never heard of KingSpec prior to buying the drive, but decided to purchase it because of good reviews. So far, it has worked perfectly and given my OQO 01 a noticable performance increase.

[JPJ]

After days of frustration, I finally figured out the problem(s). I was doing two things that the OQO bios simnply did not like. First, it won't consistently boot from PC-DOS and didn't work well with the drivers provided by Norton. I avoided this by configuring Ghost to use MS-DOS (from a Win98 boot disk) when creating a new image.

Second, a USB drive cannot always be accessed by the OQO through DOS. I could initiate the creation of a Ghost image which was saved on a USB drive, but Ghost couldn't finalize the file after reboot (I think that Ghost couldn't find the image because the USB drive is not visable in the BIOS). Thus, the image was never completed and/or valid (I couldn't even run an integrity check on it - Ghost didn't recogize it and it was much smaller than it should have been). Knowing this, I added a small FAT32 partition on my SSD and was able to successfully create a few Ghost images there (which were all verified by an integrity check).

So if anyone ever wants to create a Ghost image of an 01/01+, (1) don't use PC-DOS and (1) don't use a USB drive to save the image.