How to Use the Road Warrior to Build a New Image

  1. We have found that it is best if that machine is a 486 computer with as few devices as possible, i.e. no NIC, no sound card, etc. Also it is best if you can use a motherboard that has only ISA or VESA cards, i.e. no PCI cards. This way when the image is installed on a new computer, it will easily find all of the necessary drivers as it does an "Add New Hardware". If the hard drive is from a Pentium, it frequently will have drivers installed for it's particular primary and secondary IDE controllers, and that may be incompatible with another Pentium with a slightly different architecture.

    But if that is impossible, then in order to make the image easy to install in a wide range of machines, go into Safe Mode (boot up and immediately press F8), and select each driver and click remove. If it asks to reboot say no. Continue until you have removed all devices possible, and then shut the machine down, without allowing it to reboot (and thus reload all of those drivers).

  2. Remove the hard drive from the computer that has application software already installed, and that you anticipate wanting to make many more machines just like it.

  3. Put the hard drive into the cage. It should be already set for Master not Slave. If it previously worked in the target machine, it would have been Primary Master. It will become the Secondary Master in the Image Machine.

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

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

  6. Navigate from Local to Disk/B> to To Image

  7. You will select the drive you want to capture the information from. In this example it is drive 2.

  8. Type in the name you want to assign to this image in the white box marked with the larger (red) arrow in the photo. Click on Save.

  9. A screen will appear asking "how to compress the file." Choose high and you will be asked whether to proceed. Choose yes.

  10. Once you have had a "Successful Dump," choose Continue, Quit, yes, and turn off the machine.

  11. Now you need to put back the hard drive from which you took the image that you transferred onto your Road Warrior back into its original computer.