Topic: How To Make Multi Bootable Disk with .gho Image
started by: mohitadmin@a2zdl.com
Posted by mohitadmin@a2zdl.com on Sep. 28 2009,01:49
i hav norton ghost 2003 build 793 , ghost bootable disk ghost 11.5 and a .gho image of my windows .i want to write it in a multi bootable disk how ??
Plz Help
Posted by balder on Sep. 28 2009,04:13
@mohitadmin@a2zdl.comWelcome to this forum mohitadmin@a2zdl.com
Some questions: Most important first. Is this a bootable floppy “ghost bootable disk ghost 11.5”?
What version of ghost did you use to create image of your windows?
Do you like to automatically run ghost (create image and/or also image back to hard disk)?
balder
Posted by mohitadmin@a2zdl.com on Sep. 28 2009,08:36
I DONT HAVE THE FLOPPY DRIVE .I HAVE A BOOTABLE CD OF GHOST 11.5.
I AM USING NORTON GHOST 2003 BUILD 793
I WANT TO MAKE A MULTI BOOTABLE CD .
WHICH HAVE THE OPTIONS LIKE
PRESS 1 INTALL XP ON C
2 REBOOT
3 BOOT FROM FIRST HARD DISK
PLZ REPLY FAST
AND WHEN 1 CLICK FIRST XPINSTALLES AUTOMATICALLY .
Posted by balder on Sep. 28 2009,12:22
@mohitadmin@a2zdl.comFirst of all - YOU DON’T NEED TO SHOUT
- it goes perfectly well with normal “speaking”.Secondly what I can find out in your request, is that you have ghost image of a working XP-system witch you would like to image back to your hard disk – but if you mean starting setup of WinXP it’s a different approach. However it seems that we are dealing with a ghost operation here and you do not have a floppy unit that easily would solve your problems how to get a working floppy ghost image to folder ezboot.
How to Create DOS floppy Image
Do it this way
you have two possibilities:
1. Download pre made floppy image with built in support for CD/DVD in “DOS-mode”
2. Create your own floppy image without support for CD/DVD in “DOS-mode”.
Seems we need to stick to method 1: Download pre made image from < here >
Create a folder with name ghost on C:
Open downloaded image WindowsME_No_Ramdrive.img (I do hope you already have a program for this) copy all files from inside of this image to folder ghost.
Start notepad and insert this text lines
del scandisk.exe
del scanreg.exe
del edit.com
del extract.exe
del format.com
del xcopy32.mod
del move.exe
del chkdsk.exe
del debug.exe
del deltree.exe
del ext.exe
del findramd.exe
del fixit.bat
del hibinv.exe
del label.exe
del mem.exe
del xcopy.exe
del xcopy32.exe
del xcopy32.mod
del fdisk.exe
del attrib.exe
del help.bat
Save text file as reduce.bat (note extension “bat” not txt)
Put reduce.bat in folder ghost. Double click on reduce.bat
batch file runs and doing its “things”. Delete reduce.bat file we don’t need it more.
Right click on autoexec.bat in folder ghost and choose to edit.
Insert these lines in the end of text (put in text after this one: MSCDEX.EXE /D:tomato /L:R:)
usbmouse.exe
ctmouse.exe
ghost.exe
shutdown /R
you now have this
@echo off
MSCDEX.EXE /D:tomato /L:R
usbmouse.exe
ctmouse.exe
ghost.exe
shutdown /R
We need some more files. Download USB driver < here >
Copy file Uhci.exe to folder ghost rename file Uhci.exe to usbmouse.exe
Congratulations you now have USB-mouse support.
Download PS/2 mouse driver from < here >
Right click to cutemouse21b4.zip and choose “Extract to cutemouse21b4.zip” Open folder cutemouse21b4 continue with open folder “bin” find and copy “ctmouse.exe” to folder ghost
Congratulations you now have support for mouse connected via PS/2.
Download shutdown dos-program from < here >
Choose “extract here” Open folder shut12 and copy Shutdown.com to folder ghost
Congratulations you now have support for the nice small dos program “shutdown”.
Copy your ghost.exe to folder ghost (dos-version of ghost.exe - you cannot use ghost32.exe because this is an 32-bit program) Note: name on ghost.exe must be ghost.exe (look in autoexec.bat).
Start EasyBoot and choose tools>Create new floppy image and set image size to 2880 scroll to and use WindowsME_No_Ramdrive.img as seed image use name ghost (or whatever) as new image name (save floppy image in folder ezboot).
Now open your newly created floppy image with size 2880 kb and inject all files from folder ghost. Save changes. In easyboot menu you set run ghost.img
Note1: this only starts ghost with universal mouse support (both USB as ps-2 mouse) but it doesn't create or do image to hard disk automatically. For automatically response you need to set switches in file autoexec.bat and how to set this switches I can’t tell at this moment. I need to now your hardware and especially where you intend to load ghost image from. Is it from CD/DVD-unit or from a second partition on hard disk one or from a second hard disk (2) first partition or what?
Note2: Take attention to that ghost images created with ghost v 11.5 cannot be used together with ghost v 8. However, Ghost image created by ghost v 8 or later can be opened by ghost v 11.5. Conclusion: compatibility is to later (higher) version and not to lower versions.
About Reboot and command to start from first harddisk read in help>Technical Support and Service>Frequently Asked Questions
balder
Posted by mohitadmin@a2zdl.com on Sep. 29 2009,03:23
I had created image as per your steps .What do i do with this image .
my problem still not solved .
Posted by balder on Sep. 29 2009,04:18
@mohitadmin@a2zdl.comQuote: ” What do i do with this image” It’s this image that we use to control the whole operation. We can now create several copies of this floppy image (modifying autoexec.bat) and automatically run ghost to create or load image to hard disk. That means you can have a menu in easyboot: ”image hard disk one” and/or “create ghost image from hard disk one”.
If you lift your eyes a little bit
you find PINNED: Creating a restore disk W/ghostThis topic gives a hint what I’m talking about. When you have read and understand basic in this topic you understand that we need to edit autoexec.bat a little bit more to set path for ghost image (and set different switches to ghost.exe). That’s why it is “deadly” important for me to know from where ghost image is loaded (hard disk or CD/DVD-unit).
Attention! This part is still unclear to me: “Note1: this only starts ghost with universal mouse support (both USB as ps-2 mouse) but it doesn't create or do image to hard disk automatically. For automatically response you need to set switches in file autoexec.bat and how to set this switches I can’t tell at this moment. I need to now your hardware and especially where you intend to load ghost image from. Is it from CD/DVD-unit or from a second partition on hard disk one or from a second hard disk (2) first partition or what?”
Again I repeat
I need to now your hardware and especially where you intend to load ghost image from. Is it from CD/DVD-unit or from a second partition on hard disk one or from a second hard disk (2) first partition or what?Basically - Do you have more than one hard disk or do you have one hard disk with several partitions or is your intension to load ghost image from CD/DVD-unit instead from the faster method using several partitions (if only having one hard disk) or several hard disks?
I suggest that you google for ghost switches commands to better understand how these switches are set. I can help you but it is always nice to be acknowledged by you own for future use of ghost.
balder
Posted by mohitadmin@a2zdl.com on Sep. 29 2009,07:04
Thanks For Helping .I hav one hard disk with 3 partions and i want to install xp only at first partion .
I had Done As U Say Plz Tell Me The Next Steps Like Ur Previous Steps Only , Q 2How Can I Make A Self Installing Image ,
I attached A image I Want This Like Bootable Image .
Or Tell Me IF It is not possible ,and tell my second question.
Plz Visit My Site < Here >
Posted by balder on Sep. 29 2009,11:22
@ mohitadmin@a2zdl.comOne clarification though you don’t “install” XP (or whatever) when you use ghost.
You clone using load or dump ghost images.
You still haven’t told me from what source ghost image should restore hard disk partition
It seems you only have one hard disk with 3 partitions. Correct? I now assume your ghost image is on (lets say) hard disk partition-2 (showed as [D:] in windows). If so, open your created floppy ghost image in folder ezboot and extract autoexec.bat to a temporary folder. Attention! Don’t extract autoexec.bat to the root [C:]
Right click on autoexec.bat and choose to edit.
Insert these lines (change ghost.exe) to this text:
Ghost.exe -sure -or -clone,mode=pload,src=D:\name_to_your_image.gho:1,dst=1:1
Note1: change this name_to_your_image.gho to the name of your created ghost image (I don’t know what name you have used). Use short names like mysystem.gho or xp_sp3.gho that will say less than 8 letters
Note2: I assume your created ghost image is on second partition (showed as [D:] in windows). If your ghost image is on [E:] change D:\ to E:\
This creates “dump” a new ghost image with the name latest.gho of your hard disk partition one that will say [C:]
Ghost.exe -clone,mode=pdump,src=1:1,dst=d:\latest.gho -z2 -fx –sure
If I change dst=d:\senaste.gho to dst=e:\latest.gho ghost images is saved on hard disk partition-3 that will say [E:]
You can now make a copy of your floppy ghost image you earlier created and rename them to clonexp.img and/or imagexp.img or whatever to load and save ghost images fully automatically.
Attention! I take no responsibility if “things” goes bad here. Make sure you have made copies of vital software/programs and personally data.
Finally, is this a2zdl your homepage
balder
Posted by mohitadmin@a2zdl.com on Sep. 29 2009,12:19
I want To Make A bootable Disc So My Ghost Image Should Be In CD .I Want To Run It From Cd To C:/
Next You Had Edited The Folder Ezboot What To Do With This.
How This Is Help Full To Create Muliti Bootable Disk.
Yes a2zdl is my own site plz see the link if i am fAKING .
< MOHITSHUKLA >
Posted by balder on Sep. 29 2009,16:08
@mohitadmin@a2zdl.comQuote: “I Want To Run It From Cd To C:/”. Thanks
you finally answer my initial question what source you intend to use to load ghost image to [C:].To use CD/DVD-unit we need to again edit autoexec.bat in ghost floppy image.
But first replace MSCDEX.EXE with shsucdx.com
Open ghost floppy image and delete MSCDEX.EXE continue with
Download from < HERE >
Extract files and inject shsucdx.com to ghost floppy image.
Delete all text in autoexec.bat and inject this text lines instead
@echo off
shsucdx.com /D:tomato /L:X
PATH=a:\;a:\dos;x:\ghost
usbmouse.exe
ctmouse.exe
ghost.exe -clone,mode=load,src=X:\system.gho,dst=1:1 -fx -sure –rb
shutdown /R
Note1: do not forget to change name in autoexec.bat to your ghost image name (I use system.gho in my example text above).
Note2: if shsucdx.com can’t find your CD/DVD-unit try using shcdx86.com from downloaded zip-file (rename shcdx86.com to shsucdx.com so you don’t need to change text in autoexec.bat).
Note3: you can create a second floppy image and only use ghost.exe (leaving out switches) to control ghost manually.
Anyway - above text lines load (clone) your hard disk one partition one [C:] from CD/DVD-unit and when finished automatically reboot your computer. It will not ask you (-sure) to continue cloning – it just runs on. If leaving out switch –sure you get a question like “continue with cloning?”
Edit: Copy your created ghost image ***.gho to EasyBoot\disk1
You put ghost floppy image to folder ezboot as usual.
Use command run ghost.img in easyboot menu
balder
Posted by mohitadmin@a2zdl.com on Oct. 02 2009,06:24
I cant unDERStand Plz Give Me The Proper Steps.But Thanks For This . I Understand Aome what.
Posted by balder on Oct. 02 2009,07:57
@mohitadmin@a2zdl.comQuote: ” But Thanks For This. I Understand Aome what.”
Did you manage with ghost image from CD/DVD-unit to hard disk partition [C:] or did you fail? Sorry I haven’t the full picture if you managed to solve this
balder
Posted by mohitadmin@a2zdl.com on Oct. 04 2009,14:26
I Want To CLone Cd TO C:\ Directly When I INsert Ghost CD TO My CD Rom .Thanks .
Posted by balder on Oct. 04 2009,15:10
@mohitadmin@a2zdl.comQuote: ” I Want To CLone Cd TO C:\ Directly When I INsert Ghost CD TO My CD Rom”
Yes that’s what Easyboot is doing (with menu designed by you with different choices including “button” for starting ghost floppy image with it’s in autoexec.bat switches for ghost.exe). What is the problem
I have instructed you how to create such floppy image and how to use Easyboot (you have to create your own menu) to start this ghost cloning I Quote from Post Number: 7: I attached A image I Want This Like Bootable Image.
You can set “Wait Time” to zero in EasyBoot and only have a menu with one “button” (your ghost start). This starts ghost at once. Or…..Are your intensions at this point to not use EasyBoot as boot manager
It seems to me that you are slipping to create a single bootable CD/DVD that directly start up ghost. You can of course use your created ghost floppy image and use this as boot file in an ordinary CD/DVD burner program and put your created ghost image on the root. This is called El Torito = CD-ROM standard floppy emulation read < here >.
balder
Posted by mohitadmin@a2zdl.com on Oct. 06 2009,06:54
THANKS FOR YOUR GREAT SUPPORT I FOUND MY ANSWER .
Posted by mohitadmin@a2zdl.com on Oct. 07 2009,09:05
I want to say that autoexec is in format .bat and you told me to rename it to my ghost image (xp.gho) .It will work or not.
i think you want to say that change autoexec.bat to xp.bat .
is i am right or not .
Posted by balder on Oct. 07 2009,10:40
@mohitadmin@a2zdl.comQuote: “I want to say that autoexec is in format .bat and you told me to rename it to my ghost image (xp.gho) .” No I did not! In fact I cannot find this text "format .bat" anywhere
Seems that you jumped over Post Number: 4
I quote from Post Number: 4:
Downloaded pre made image from here
Create a folder with name ghost on C:
Open downloaded image “WindowsME_No_Ramdrive.img” (I do hope you already have a program for this) copy all files from inside of this image to folder ghost.
Start notepad and insert this text lines
del scandisk.exe
del scanreg.exe
del edit.com
del extract.exe
del format.com
del xcopy32.mod
del move.exe
del chkdsk.exe
del debug.exe
del deltree.exe
del ext.exe
del findramd.exe
del fixit.bat
del hibinv.exe
del label.exe
del mem.exe
del xcopy.exe
del xcopy32.exe
del xcopy32.mod
del fdisk.exe
del attrib.exe
del help.bat
Save text file as reduce.bat (note extension “bat” not txt)
Put reduce.bat in folder ghost. Double click on reduce.bat
batch file runs and doing its “things”. Delete reduce.bat file we don’t need it more.
Right click on autoexec.bat in folder ghost and choose to edit.
Insert these lines in the end of text (put in text after this one: MSCDEX.EXE /D:tomato /L:R:)
usbmouse.exe
ctmouse.exe
ghost.exe
shutdown /R
you now have this
@echo off
MSCDEX.EXE /D:tomato /L:R
usbmouse.exe
ctmouse.exe
ghost.exe
shutdown /R
We need some more files. Download USB driver here
Copy file Uhci.exe to folder ghost rename file Uhci.exe to usbmouse.exe
Congratulations you now have USB-mouse support.
Download PS/2 mouse driver from here
Right click to cutemouse21b4.zip and choose “Extract to cutemouse21b4.zip” Open folder cutemouse21b4 continue with open folder “bin” find and copy “ctmouse.exe” to folder ghost
Congratulations you now have support for mouse connected via PS/2.
Download shutdown dos-program from here
Choose “extract here” Open folder shut12 and copy Shutdown.com to folder ghost
Congratulations you now have support for the nice small dos program “shutdown”.
Copy your ghost.exe to folder ghost (dos-version of ghost.exe - you cannot use ghost32.exe because this is an 32-bit program) Note: name on ghost.exe must be ghost.exe (look in autoexec.bat).
Start EasyBoot and choose tools>Create new floppy image and set image size to 2880 scroll to and use “WindowsME_No_Ramdrive.img” as seed image use name ghost (or whatever) as new image name (save floppy image in folder ezboot).
Now open your newly created floppy image with size 2880 kb and inject all files from folder ghost. Save changes. In easyboot menu you set run ghost.img
Finally you answered my initial question. From what source your intension was to load ghost image from. You finally told me this in Post Number: 9
I therefore instructed you in Post Number: 10 do edit autoexec.bat in folder ghost to have these lines instead:
@echo off
shsucdx.com /D:tomato /L:X
PATH=a:\;a:\dos;x:\ghost
usbmouse.exe
ctmouse.exe
ghost.exe -clone,mode=load,src=X:\system.gho,dst=1:1 -fx -sure –rb
shutdown /R
Inject this edited autoexec.bat from folder ghost to your earlier created ghost.img (that already should be in EasyBoot\disk1\ezboot)
Finally…
You have as I understand an earlier created ghost image of your hard disk (correct?) with some name I don’t know (Please rename it to system.gho). You put this ghost image system.gho to EasyBoot\disk1
Use command run ghost.img in easyboot menu
Create CD/DVD Note: there are size limits to how big DVD you can build. I do not remember for the moment but anyway I recommend keeping ISO-build less that 2Gb in size if possible.
DONE!
balder
Posted by mohitadmin@a2zdl.com on Oct. 08 2009,11:52
I already do as you but it was noit clear that where i have to put my ghost image (mysystem.gho for my image) and rename autoexec.bat to mysystem.bat .
Posted by balder on Oct. 08 2009,14:58
@mohitadmin@a2zdl.comQuote: ” it was not clear that where i have to put my ghost image”
As described in tutorial put your ghost image (***.gho) to EasyBoot\disk1 (this is the “root” of ISO that Easyboot create). Ghost floppy image goes to EasyBoot\disk1\ezboot
And of course make sure that name to ghost image match name in ghost switches (in autoexec.bat).
balder
Posted by malixpboy on Oct. 15 2009,04:54
3 steps:1 dowmload GHOSTXP.IMG DL link-http://www.rayfile.com/files/7950f0b3-b965-11de-9cc8-0014221b798a/
2 drop it into ezboot folder,write EZB menu command "run ghostxp.img"
3 rename ur GHO to GHOSTXP.GHO, drop it into disk root directory
ok make iso or burn disk!
if u don't want to rename ur gho,ok, open ghostxp.img with winimage,find AUTOEXEC.BAT,
change ghostxp.gho charector to what u want!
Posted by bad_data on Nov. 02 2009,06:29
Hello balder i have followed your tutorials but im having an error GHOSTERR.TXT what seems to be the problem here im using norton 2003 ghost exe ,
Posted by balder on Nov. 02 2009,06:53
@bad_dataI’m interested how text in autoexec.bat and config.sys looks like
balder
Posted by mohitadmin@a2zdl.com on Nov. 08 2009,10:57
How To Create A ghost Image Less Than 650 Mb.
Posted by balder on Nov. 08 2009,14:18
@mohitadmin@a2zdl.comQuote: "How To Create A ghost Image Less Than 650 Mb."
Well it depends on size of source you create ghost image from
If size of a harddisk (or partition) is bigger than lets say 1,2 GB I guess it doesn’t fit on 650MB size you want the end result to be. If size is 1GB it might go well as ghost have built in switches for compression of created ghost image. Compress switch is –z and (if I remember right) you can use compression from 1 to 9 but I recommend value –z2 as this isn’t to slow.
Example below here
Ghost.exe -clone,mode=dump,src=1:1,dst=2:1:\mysystem.gho -z2 -sure –rb
Ghost create (-clone) a image (mode=dump) of harddisk-1 partition-1 (src=1:1) to harddisk-2 partition-1 (dst=2:1), with name “systemet.gho” - image is compressed with value 2 (-z2) and image is created without asking any question (-sure) when finished with cloning ghost reboot computer (-rb).
balder
Posted by mohitadmin@a2zdl.com on Nov. 10 2009,10:37
i cant understand where to do or what to do . plz make it clear .
Posted by balder on Nov. 10 2009,11:59
@ mohitadmin@a2zdl.comQuote: “i cant understand where to do or what to do . plz make it clear .”
What should I make clear
1. You have not explained from where you are creating ghost image
2. You have not explained where ghost image is supposed to be put
I would be greater if you can give a fully answer to those two questions I have printed
balder