Samapico Posted June 8, 2007 Report Posted June 8, 2007 I've searched everywhere... and I didn't find any answer to my problem. My computer has no floppy drive. My BIOS supports booting from a USB device.I have installed Norton Ghost 2003, and I want to eventually boot with the Ghost program, and load an image from somewhere.So... I have: -Copied a bootsector to my USB device from an image file that I found on some website (though it didn't changed ANYTHING, so it probably already had one... I just got a german bootsector apparently... cause instead of saying 'Press any key to restart' it was in german... bleh) -The files of a norton ghost boot floppy (autoexec.bat, config.sys, mouse.com... etc) So I suppose I should just have all these files on my device, and boot, and it should work right? Well when i boot up with the usb key, it detects a change, and automatically boots on it.The only thing that shows up is:'Press any key to restart' (in german... bleh)and when I do... well... it just shows the message again immediatly. So wtf? Any of you have done that before? And how can I restore my bootsector to non-german ? And by the way... during boot, I CAN'T use ANY keyboard shortcuts because it's a cheap USB keyboard... well, I can do Enter and Ctrl-S, which are bios-specific shortcuts... but like F6 doesn't work. I even tried with a usb -> ps/2 adapter... but my keyboard wouldn't work at all with that :/But since the message changed when I changed my device's bootsector, I suppose it's already booting correctly on it, so I don't need to change anything in the BIOS... AND Norton Ghost does have a utility to create boot disks... but it only gives me choice of creating the boot disk on drive A or B :/ edit: if you happen to know a GOOD forum for these kind of things, I'd appreciate a link... the only ones google gave me were either full of !@#$%^&*holes, uninstructive in any way, or you needed to register (not for free) to see the "expert's answer" (www.experts-exchange.com)... it's the worse site ever.
Dav Posted June 8, 2007 Report Posted June 8, 2007 I think you can just format any USB drive to do it. Treat it like an external bootable HDD
NBVegita Posted June 8, 2007 Report Posted June 8, 2007 ghosting can be funny, I have my external at work configured to image directly from the drive. Let me see if I can get something for you, as we use about 8 images here.
NBVegita Posted June 8, 2007 Report Posted June 8, 2007 Sama can you give me a full list of the files you have on your drive for the ghosting?
Samapico Posted June 8, 2007 Author Report Posted June 8, 2007 The ghost file itself is not on my drive... I just want to boot the Ghost application from it is your screenshot the content of a device that boots a ghost application? Or is it actual ghost data? Or does it boots a ghost application that automatically 'installs' the image on it?
Drake7707 Posted June 8, 2007 Report Posted June 8, 2007 just format the usb like it were a bootable floppy ?
Samapico Posted June 8, 2007 Author Report Posted June 8, 2007 Note that it DOES boot on the drive (I think)... but it just does... nothingDoes anyone else have Norton Ghost 2003 and would be willing to make an image of the boot disk it creates? Or are ghost images universal? Like if I make my images with Norton Ghost, will any app be able to load them? If that is the case, I'd just need a copy of a dos application that does that...
NBVegita Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 Minus the migration folder, those are all of my ghost files so that I can boot the ghost and image directly from my drive. Are you trying to create an image of your current setup? or load a new ghost image?
Samapico Posted June 11, 2007 Author Report Posted June 11, 2007 I don't even have an image created yet... I just want to be able to boot up on Norton Ghost first (else there's no reason to even create an image, right?)When you boot on yours, does it ask you where to get the ghost image from? Cause that's what I'd need... if it is, could you attach the files here? (minus the images)
NBVegita Posted June 13, 2007 Report Posted June 13, 2007 When i boot mine it goes into a dos like gui allowing me to choose if I would like to direct image the machine, or use any list of utilities I have at work, including entering into the ghost menu. I also have a bart PE disk that will let you enter ghost from that. If you have no images, what are you trying to do with ghost?
Samapico Posted June 13, 2007 Author Report Posted June 13, 2007 Why would I even make an image if I can't do anything with it? I want to make it work first.... then I'll maybe make an image... or probably not because my drive is already full of crap, but atleast I'll know it works. But eventually I'll make one and I'll know I'll be able to use it if I need it. At the moment, if windows decided to die right now, I probably couldn't do anything... I'm not even sure if I can reinstall windows by booting on the cd... I tried several times booting on it and it just won't work... my BIOS sucks balls (can't 'choose' the boot sequence.. it just boots on some other random thing when it detects a bootable cd or usb device), plus my keyboard sucks balls (can't do anything with it during boot sequence, except use bios commands (Ctrl-S, Enter) ... can't do F6... stupid usb keyboard)... So yeah basically I feel very insecure right now because it would probably take me a week to get my computer back on its feet if it dies. Anyways... could you attach the files you got on that thing? I'd like to give it a try...
NBVegita Posted June 15, 2007 Report Posted June 15, 2007 my bootable drive isn't quite configured for what you are looking for, can you get a copy of Bart PE? You can customize that to run Ghost off the bootable disk.
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