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s750katana 
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Joined: Oct. 2007
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Posted on: Oct. 09 2007,00:32 |
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I have been trying for a few days to use EasyBoot and UltraISO to create a boot disk to restore an image back to a hard drive. I have successfully created a Ghost 2003 boot floppy xxx.ima file that loads ghost and gives it the switches to restore my image. I have  included in the easyboot directory the ghost.ima file which is less than 1.44mb and the image files xxx.gho etc. It all runs ok but ghost can't find the image when it looks at the DVD. It appears to be hidden in the boot image section and not in an accessable data area. Frustration!!!!!
I have tryed to include the xxx.gho files in the xxx.ima or xxx.bin images but they appear not to run once over 1.44mb.
Any ideas would be greatly appriciated 
******* Don't worry fixed it *******
Thanks to those who had a look, but I did say that I had the boot disk part sorted. What I was doing wrong was placing the XXX.gho ghost image file under the wrong directory. It needs to go under the disk1 directory not under the disk1\ezboot\ directory or in the boot image itself. This way when you look at the burnt CD/DVD you can see the Ghost image files with the ghost.exe -clone ............ etc command running from the boot disk image.
At the end it all appears to work ok. So you can choose to reimage the PC from the menu and it automatically starts the ghost image, great!!!!
Edited by s750katana on Oct. 11 2007,01:36
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billonious
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Posted on: Oct. 09 2007,05:49 |
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BURN GHOST WITH 3RD PARTY APPLICATION
This is a Ghost program limitation that is not well explained in the documents. If you use Ghost to directly burn an image to optical media, then the Ghost program using the 'Standard Ghost Boot Disk' will recognize and use the image file. Ghost's built-in ability to access the optical drive functions correctly.
But, if you save an image to the HDD first, and later burn that image to optical media with a third party burning program, Ghost can not use it's internal optical drive mounting ability. You have to use a boot disk that has DOS drivers that 'mount' the optical drive (example--oakcdrom.sys), and then assigns a drive letter to the mounted drive (example--mscdex.exe). Once this is done, that image on the optical media can be read by Ghost just fine!
Instead of the 'Standard Ghost Boot Disk', you have to use the 'CD/DVD Startup Disk with Ghost'--this two disk set will load 'universal' drivers to mount optical drives and assign drive letters to those mounted drives.
If you are comfortable with editing a couple files and copying files to a floppy, you can modify the 'Standard Ghost Boot Disk' on the floppy so it loads those DOS drivers, and keep the boot disk a single boot disk, and not a 2-disk set.
I'm assuming you have installed Ghost 2003 into Windows--
1. Using Windows Explorer, in WinXP, look here for the needed DOS drivers:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\Ghost\Template\common
You will find 'oakcdrom.sys' and 'mscdex.exe' in that directory.
Copy those two files to the 'Standard Ghost Boot Disk' in the floppy drive.
2. Using Windows' NotePad program, open the CONFIG.SYS file on the 'Standard Ghost Boot Disk', and 'copy-and-paste' the following text line into the CONFIG.SYS document on its own separate line before the last line that should read 'lastdrive=z':
device=oakcdrom.sys /d:nightowl
Save CONFIG.SYS back to the 'Standard Ghost Boot Disk'.
3. Using Windows' NotePad program, open the AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the 'Standard Ghost Boot Disk', and 'copy-and-paste' the following text line into the AUTOEXEC.BAT document on its own separate line before the line that says 'CD Ghost':
mscdex.exe /d:nightowl /l:x /m:16 /v
(The above line will assign the drive letter 'X:' to the first optical drive the system sees. If you have additional optical drives, they will get 'Y:' and 'Z:'. If you wish to have your optical drive start with a different letter, change the '/l:x' switch to a different letter. For example, if you want your optical drive to be E:, change '/l:x' to '/l:e' instead.)
Save AUTOEXEC.BAT back to the 'Standard Ghost Boot Disk'.
This modified 'Standard Ghost Boot Disk' should be able to mount and read Ghost images burned by third party burning programs, and is still a single boot disk solution.
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