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Creating a bootable Ghost Partition

I want to make 3 partitons on hard drive. 1=current windows, 2=ghost image, and 3= a bootable option to load the image from ghost without having the boot disks on hand. Thus taking the user out of the equation of error. We are setting the restore up to be local so there will not be an increase in WAN traffic. Our dept is centrally located and shipping pcs to remote sites. Having the computer be able to restore itself threw a hidden "restore" partition would be ideal. There have been similar threads but nothing to what we would like to do. I am open to suggestions

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igor-1965

The trick part is to make a ghost partition bootable. You will need a boot loader like GRUB. But Symantec Suite offers a more elegant solution. Most of the modern computers network cards support boot to PXE. Symantec Suite contain PXE server you could install in your network. Once PC booted to PXE it will connect to PXE server, download the image of a bootable floppy and boot it up. Once it done you could launch Ghost and have it restore Windows partition from an image.
Hope it helps.

noxcho

Drive Backup makes it bootable automatically so no floppy or CD is required. Boot Manager picks up the loader of boot environment and give command to it. Then GUI opens where you can select restore process.