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157Command-line switches
Command-line switches
-dl=number Specifies the number of hard disks present. Valid numbers are between 1 and 8. This may
help when the BIOS does not report the number of drives correctly.
-dlist=drives Specifies a list of drives to search for span files. If a span file cannot be found, then the
drive letters in dlist are substituted one by one to look for the file on other drives.
For example, the command ghost -dlist=CDEFG instructs Norton Ghost to look for files
on C, D, E, F, and G drives. The path remains the same.
-f32 Lets Norton Ghost convert all FAT16 volumes to FAT32 volumes when the destination
partition to convert is larger than 256 MB in size. Ensure that the installed operating
systems can access the volumes that will be converted to support FAT32.
-f64 Lets Norton Ghost resize FAT16 partitions to be larger than 2047 MB using 64 K clusters.
This is only supported by Windows NT and Windows 2000. Do not use on computers
with other operating systems
-fatlimit Limits the size of FAT16 partitions to 2047 MB. Useful when Windows NT FAT16
partitions are present on the disk and 64 K clusters are not wanted
-fcr Creates a CRC32 file, Ghost.crc, while creating an image file.
See “-CRC32 switch usage” on page 172.
-fdsp Preserves the signature bytes on the destination disk when performing a disk-to-disk or
image-to-disk cloning operation
-fdsz Clears the signature bytes on the destination disk when performing a disk-to-disk or
image-to-disk cloning operation.
-femax When an extended partition is created in a disk-to-disk or image-to-disk operation, the
femax switch ensures that the extended partition takes up all free space.
-ffatid Forces the FAT partition id. This switch changes the partition id to the recommended
partition id for the FAT partition within the destination image file or the destination
partition table. This switch only takes effect if the source is a disk or partition, not an
image file.
For example, if you are cloning a partition of type 0xA0 (some unknown partition id), and
Norton Ghost sees it as a valid FATx (FAT12/FAT16/FAT32) partition, then the partition id
is changed from 0xA0 to FATx.
This was default Norton Ghost behavior before Symantec Ghost 7.5. This switch allows
for backward compatibility.
-ffi Prefers the use of direct IDE access for IDE hard disk operations. This switch does not
have any effect when running Norton Ghost in Windows 98.
-ffs Prefers the use of direct ASPI/SCSI disk access for SCSI hard disk operations.
-ffx Prefers the use of Extended Interrupt 13h disk access for hard disk operations.