- Programs on the Clone Disk, including where to find those programs
- Install Ghost Image will transfer an image with an Operating System and installed Application Programs onto the hard disk of the machine being refurbished will allow you to install any of these
- Make Floppy DisksSYSCHK, to verify the size of the Hard Drive we will be GHOSTing an image to
- VALET, so we can see what is on the refurbished computer's Hard Drive
- Get harddrive parameters runs MH-IDE, a program that can detect the proper Hard Drive parameters to use
- DOS Prompt
- Customize Software (Select OS and Application Programs)
If you press "ESC" the Road Warrior will go on into Win98se
The significant icons for Road Warrior are:
Clicking on the Image Machine icon
displays the same seven item menu that was displayed when the computer was first booted.
The only dfference is that SYSCHK will show an error indicating it is being run under Windows, and that some items may not be accurate. However the disk size of Drive 2 should be accurate, and that is the only significant entry that it makes sense to look at in an image machine (SYSCHK is usually run from a Clone disk in the machine being refurbished).
Clicking on the Internet Explorer icon
opens up displaying the Helping Tulsa Computer Refurbishing Procedures, even though the road warrior is not connected to the internet.
Clicking on the Search for Drivers icon
initially displays an instruction page
Pressing any key gives this screen:
Pressing enter to do a text search gives this screen:
As the initial instruction page indicates you need to press the End key, backspace over the last *, and type cmt
Typine in hp as the search string and pressing F10 to run the search results in the following:
Let us assume we were looking for a driver for an HP 890c Printer. It appears it is named Dj885en.exe, and it is in the C:\drivers\d2\Print folder
Clicking on the Copy Drivers icon
gives us this screen. The driver we want is in the d2 so we click on that in the right hand pane,
and then select the Print folder, and select Dj885en.exe. We can then do a right drag (hold the right mouse button down and drag the file) to the D: drive (which is the HD for the machine being refurbished, which is temporarilly in the Drive Tray on the image machine, and when we let the button up select copy.
The Drivers folder
has four subfolders. Folders d1, d2, and d3 are used in conjunction with the search function developed by Gary Ludwig. The don folder has some drivers downloaded by Don Singleton. These drivers do not yet have the cmt files to enable them to be used with the search function, but if the search function does not find a driver, you may want to do a manual search in the don folder, which has subfolders for
dell, gateway, hp, ibm, lexmark, misc, scanner, and nic
We also have a Drivers CD which can be used on the computer being refurbished, assuming it has a CD drive.
- Windows Partition
- Clone Partition, including where to find
the programs used on the Clone Partition
- Batch files
- Explanation of the TRANSFER.BAT file which is the basis for customizing the software to be installed on a refurbished computer
- Explanation of the IMAGES.BAT file which demonstrates how the operating system is selected
- Explanation of the BIBLE.BAT file which demonstrates how certain application programs are transferred
- How to make a new image for the Clone Partition
- Batch files
- Ghost Partition
- Creating an Image Machine
- Updating GHOST images on an Image Machine
- Updating Clone Partition on an Image Machine