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Norton Ghost 14 Boot Disk the old fashioned way
I've been using this boot floppy for years now which boots my computer in dos with a file explorer to restore a saved ghost partition image on my hard drive. It also let me create images from DOS. How can I still do this when my new computer does not have a floppy drive ? Thanks
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You can still copy the files from it although you may not need to.. sorry i'm not 100% on that.
The way i do it is all the boot files on floppy disk #1 and then just ghost8.exe on floppy disk #2 and my reasoning for this is because ghost8.exe is 1.3mb so needs it's own floppy. If your only using one floppy then I think you can just burn that floppy as a bootable cd with all files in the boot partition. I just haven't done it that way before.
I use Norton Ghost 8 still but the version won't be the issue, should be able to do what your after with whatever you were using before. I've got alot of other drivers on our boot disc which would be why we use 2 floppy's.
A USB drive is even easier than the CD boot disc once you have a bootable usb drive, so you need to make a USB drive bootable which these site shows you how to do http://www.bootdisk.com/pe
Then you can just copy the floppy disk boot files you have into the right partition on the usb drive and you should be in business, if you have a large enough usb key you could even store your images on this.
Sorry if this is alittle hard to follow I only update our boot cd's every 6 months so i sort of relearn the majority of it each time.
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by: andossPosted on 2009-01-20 at 17:16:40ID: 23426051
You can do this by making a normal Ghost CD/DVD boot disk on the old PC (still using the floppy).
This will create the usual boot files on floppy #1 & Ghost files on floppy #2.
Then if you have Nero Burning Rom or other software that can create bootable CD's what you do is make the boot part of the CD Floppy 1 and the data part of the CD Floppy 2.
There are a number of things that can mess you up:
a) newer CD Drives will not work with the old SBIDE.SYS driver you may need to get the new GCDROM.SYS driver and modify the boot files on the floppy disk manually. The two files you'll need to change are autoexec.bat and config.sys (just replace sbide.sys with gcdrom.sys)
b) You will need to modify autoexec.bat on the floppy before you make the boot cd so that instead of looking for the ghost files on A: Drive it will look for them on D: Drive (or your cd drive). If you don't do this you'll get an error but you can then manually navigate to D: Drive and just start the ghost exe from the commandline.
c) does your version of ghost let you look at NTFS? I'm thinking you might need a fat32 partition on your new PC's HDD just to store your images which would be painful.
Personally I'd say this is alot of effort to go to for your situation, I only do it because I need to create a Custom boot CD to image all our different hardware. I think booting of a USB stick etc will work better.