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Ghost Boot Wizard 11 to create USB Ghost disk

Asked by: rowfei

Hi,

I am using Ghost Boot Wizard 11 & SanDisk Cruzer Contour 8GB usb disk to create USB Ghost bootable disk. After I finished created and I am able to boot from this usb disk. However, I only have 1.9G space left on the USB disk instead of 7.9G. For some reason, there's 6G is disapper.

Any idea?

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by: robsantosPosted on 2008-07-16 at 10:03:22ID: 22017905

looks like a file system format issue:
see this excerpt from here: https://forums.symantec.com/syment/board/message?board.id=109&thread.id=3226&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

How to make a bootable USB drive over 2.0gb with GSS:
- Use GBW to create a MSDOS bootable USB device
- Now you have a bootable USB device with MSDOS on a 2.0gb FAT16 paritition
- Use Ghost or Ghost32 to create a disk image of the bootable USB drive
- Use Ghost/Ghost32 to restore the image back to the USB drive with the -f32 switch (can also be set in the options menu of the Ghost GUI) which will convert the paritition to FAT32 on restore.
- You will now be able to chose a parition size of over 2gb when restoring the image to your USB drive
- Your bootable FAT32 USB drive is now ready for use!
 
NOTE: You must use MS-DOS as the PC-DOS we provide will not survive the FAT32 conversion and will no longer be bootable.
 
Side note: When you are using USB flash drives which are quite big, there is also the option of building WinPE on the USB drive and booting into that instead of DOS.
 

 

by: rowfeiPosted on 2008-07-16 at 10:59:28ID: 22018456

Thanks, but can you provide more detail of this step:

- Use Ghost or Ghost32 to create a disk image of the bootable USB drive

 

by: rowfeiPosted on 2008-07-16 at 11:02:01ID: 22018486

Also XP & Vista doesn't support MS-DOS anymore, right?

 

by: robsantosPosted on 2008-07-16 at 12:18:06ID: 22019164

how do you usually use Ghost?  However you do,  before launching it, plugin your Contour and then choose to Ghost the Contour (select the 8 GB disk in Ghost).  Once you've created that ghost image, restore it back to the contour with the -f32 switch or change the restore option in the Ghost GUI.

 

by: rowfeiPosted on 2008-07-16 at 12:28:51ID: 22019266

So do I have to use MS-DOS? I only can select PC-DOS in GSS.

 

by: robsantosPosted on 2008-07-16 at 13:20:07ID: 22019747

no - do you have the ability to use ghost now?  Is it available in your your programs?

 

by: robsantosPosted on 2008-07-20 at 01:27:15ID: 22044947

btw - that symantec article mentions an update - have you tried updating your ghost software?

 

by: rowfeiPosted on 2008-07-21 at 09:15:55ID: 22051861

I tried, but I couldn't find how to update it.

 

by: robsantosPosted on 2008-07-21 at 09:30:56ID: 22051989

from
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/on-technology.nsf/docid/2008062407585760?Open&seg=ent

From the Ghost Console or Ghost Explorer, choose Help > LiveUpdate
Follow the prompts to download the LiveUpdate

 

by: rowfeiPosted on 2008-07-21 at 12:28:25ID: 22053576

thanks, rob. As soon as I update the Ghost, I am able to see 7.6GB on my usb drive.

Really quick question: what's the difference between "Standard Ghost Boot Package" with "CD/DVD Startup Boot Parcaage with Ghost" in Ghost Boot Wizard?

 

by: robsantosPosted on 2008-07-21 at 13:16:30ID: 22053922

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/symantec_ghost_solution_suite/2.5/manuals/Ghost_imp_guide.pdf

search for "Boot package types" - there's a nice table (Table 11-1) describing each

 

by: rowfeiPosted on 2008-07-21 at 13:22:36ID: 22053969

Thanks

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