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Ghost Image Restrictions

When creating a Ghost image for use with OSIM the following restrictions apply:

• The name of the Ghost image file must be a valid 8.3 DOS filename.
• If a FAT16 system partition is used to create the Ghost image, its size must not exceed 2 GB. Otherwise use FAT32 for the master partition.

Note: If the Ghost image is created from the system partition only - as opposed to creation from the whole disk - the "CreateNewPartitions = no boot" parameter will preserve existing partitions at the target machine other than the system partition.

During conversion of the new system partition from the temporary FAT16 to NTFS it is expanded to the previous size of the system partition. This means, if there are no other partitions on the target disk, the whole disk will be used.

With "CreateNewPartition = yes", the partition schema in <imagename>.par will be created on HD before the Ghost image is restored.