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Any Symantec Ghost experts in here?

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I created a golden image for my computer, and placed it on a separate partition.

I've created a virtual boot partition...essentially when you click the shortcut from Windows, it reboots the machine and enters Ghost.

Once in the DOS ghost 11.5, I choose Local->Partition->From Image and then have to manually find the .gho file on the separate partition.

First - Is there a way to automate the Local->Partition->From Image menu process?

Second - Is there a way to add a shortcut to the virtual "boot floppy", or even a way to automate the selection of the .gho file?

Any help is appreciated.
 
I use Ghost at my job a lot, but I have not used the virtual boot partition. What I have done is create a bootable USB drive and modified the batch file to allow users to restore an image on a laptop stored on the backup partition without any interaction.

The command line for the image restore is "ghost.exe -clone,mode=prestore,src=2:2\image.gho:1,dst=2:1 -sure -quiet". Since we are booting from a USB drive, the source for my image according to Ghost is disk 2, partition 2 (src=2:2) and the image is in the root directory. The destination is disk 2, partition 1 (dst=2:1).

The -sure and -quiet keeps the user from having to interact and also keeps them from stopping the restore.

I hope this helps. I will be glad to help any more if I can.
 
Thanks for the info. I have been digging into the online documents, but time is at a premium right now.

I have the virtual boot partition set up now, but requires 4-5 steps (as mentioned before). BUT, for my needs, the virtual boot partition is very cool. Essentially, you just click on a batch file, and the computer automatically reboots and launches a ghost session. If I could further automate it, it would be very nice.

Here's what I'm up to. The company I work for has a new handheld computer product. I set this up for our demo units (that go out to prospective customers). So, the "recovery image" plays two rolls. One is if the customer screws something up, I can instruct them on how to "get back to start". Two is after we receive a demo back, its very simple to re-image the computer for the next demo.
 
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