How to Install an Image
from the Road Warrior
to a Hard Drive to be installed
in the Refurbished Computer

  1. Remove the hard drive from the refurbished computer. This hard drive will be placed into the Road Warrior.

    Sometimes it is difficult to remove the power cable from a hard drive, and I have found that a small pair of channel lock pliers is very useful:

    Click the pliers to the second notch, which is just about as wide as the power connector, and place it on the power connector, next to the hard drive, and just twist the pliers a little, and they will push the connector out of the hard drive:

  2. Put it into the cage. It should be already set for Master not Slave. It will be the secondary master in the Road Warrior.

  3. Make sure that the Road Warrior is turned off. Put the cage into the Imaging Machine and lock it in.

  4. Turn on the Road Warrior and when the menu appears select Install Ghost Image. When Ghost comes up, click OK

  5. Navigate from Local to Disk to From Image.

  6. Select the image you want to use. You may create folders with multiple images in them or just put all of your images in one folder. If you have multiple folders, select the folder and then the file. In this example, there are two folders with multiple files in each, and one file, with the name Latest.gho.

    Here is a list of the Ghost images on my Road Warrior, with a description of each:
    B260GHO107,663kbFor 486 with 260mb HD Win95 Images or Win98 images
    with all install files removed
    so image would fit
    on real small HDs
    B400GHO165,627kbFor 486 with 400mb HD
    B600GHO247,105kbFor P75 with 600mb HD
    Child800GHO331,047kbFor P75 with 600mb HD
    Child16GHO568,186kbChildren Image used for Day Care Centers
    SeniorGHO516,129kbSenior Image used for Senior Citizen Centers
    BibleGHO482,853kbBible Image used on most donations to churches
    NetGHO734,667kbNet Image used for machines primarilly used for Net Access
    CoyoteGHO65,453kbCoyote Image used to make router to share dial up internet
    RW6GHOkbRW6 Image used to make more Road Warriors

  7. Put in the special number (license) that appeared on the splash screen. The number showing is not for your machine. You will be furnished with a number. You need to keep it. If you forget it, It will appear on the splash screen when you start Ghost. For example, for my computer the number is F86B713E20CC and I have a white sticker on the computer reminding me of that code number.

  8. Choose the Destination drive. This is the drive on your individual machines that has all the programs. But remember this hard drive is still in the Imaging Machine. This drive will be NUMBER 2 This is critical. You do not want to write over the information on your Imaging Machine. If you do make a mistake, you will need to repeat section I. Select number 2.

  9. The next step is an affirmation of whether you actually want to overwrite the drive in question. Choose yes.

  10. When you are finished, you will get a message saying that you have completed the task successfully. Then, choose Continue, Quit, and turn off the machine.

  11. Then remove the hard drive from its cage in the Road Warrior and put it back into the refurbished computer.

    Sometimes we can't get a machine to work so we have to scrap it for its parts, which means we will have a few extra hard drives available. Rather than waiting until we are ready to use a hard drive we will select an image based on the size of the hard drive, and we will put that image on the hard drive, writing the drive size and the image name on the drive.

    This speeds up the process considerably, because if we refurbish a machine that has a 2 Gig drive on which we want to put the Children Image, rather than my associate having to wait while I put that image on the drive he just removed, I can hand him another hard drive of approximately the same size and with that image already on it, and he can be installing that drive in the machine being refurbished, while I am ghosting the Children Image to the drive he just removed.

  12. Once the hard drive has been installed in the refurbished computer, turn it on, and it will automatically go through an Add New Hardware, identifying each device in the computer, and loading the appropriate driver from the CAB files on the hard drive. If there is some device whose driver is not on the CAB files, you can use this procedure to locate a driver.