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Ghost Boot Wizard 11 to create USB Ghost disk
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?
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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rowfei
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Thanks, but can you provide more detail of this step:
- Use Ghost or Ghost32 to create a disk image of the bootable USB drive
- Use Ghost or Ghost32 to create a disk image of the bootable USB drive
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Also XP & Vista doesn't support MS-DOS anymore, right?
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.
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So do I have to use MS-DOS? I only can select PC-DOS in GSS.
no - do you have the ability to use ghost now? Is it available in your your programs?
btw - that symantec article mentions an update - have you tried updating your ghost software?
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I tried, but I couldn't find how to update it.
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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?
Really quick question: what's the difference between "Standard Ghost Boot Package" with "CD/DVD Startup Boot Parcaage with Ghost" in Ghost Boot Wizard?
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
search for "Boot package types" - there's a nice table (Table 11-1) describing each
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Thanks
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.