Booting up in DOS...USING GHOST?

[BlindBartimaeus]

I am having a brain fart and can't figure how to boot up in dos. I have a new laptop hard drive and would like to just clone it over to the new hard drive.

I copied the ghost to the hard drive

and it then says I should reboot in dos mode.

Any suggestions?

 

[gaidin123]

You need to use the ghost boot disk wizard to create a DOS boot floppy/CD that has the ghost.exe on it. Boot into that, copy from old hard drive to new hard drive. Or go to somewhere like bootdisk.com and grab pre-made DOS boot floppy images. Have the Ghost.exe on a second floppy and use that.

You could do it all on a USB memory key if the machine supports booting USB mass storage devices but the floppy/CD option is simpler.

Gaidin

 

[Sead0nkey]

Originally posted by: gaidin123
You could do it all on a USB memory key if the machine supports booting USB mass storage devices but the floppy/CD option is simpler.

Gaidin

I just started using my USB key for booting into DOS. It's a very useful tool. I've used it for ghosting and it works fine. BTW I use a mine cruzer.

 

[imported_Sigma]

SeadOnkey,

Thats a cool idea. Did you just set your bios to boot the USB key?

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: BlindBartimaeus
I am having a brain fart and can't figure how to boot up in dos. I have a new laptop hard drive and would like to just clone it over to the new hard drive.

I copied the ghost to the hard drive

and it then says I should reboot in dos mode.

Any suggestions?

I think there is some confusion here. 1st, if you *clone* AFAIK there is no need to DOS boot, nor is any floppy involved. Cloning is in the advanced features. When it's done, you have two identical HDs. No need for the restore floppy. The floppy thing is neccessary when you are *ghosting*, not cloning.

2nd, you state that new have a new lappie HD and want to clone it to the new HD. Huh? Did you get two new HDs?

If you mean you wanna clone the old lappie's HD to the new Lappies HD, that could be a prob. The clone carries the chipset drivers etc with it. So you'd be trying to boot up the new lappie with the old lappie's drivers (chipset, video etc.) Unless they are similar, that prolly won't work.

 

[MichaelD]

Hope this helps. Here's how my rigs are setup.

I have a 10GB FAT32 partition in every rig I build. Ghost has to be on a FAT32 partition, b/c you boot into DOS (Win98 boot disk) and DOS doesn't read NTFS.

Anyway, on the partition, I put the GHOST.EXE file. It's only 1004KB. I boot with a Win98 boot floppy (or some other floppy that has DOS on it.

I then type C:Ghost. Ghost executes and I go about doing whatever I need to.

Ghost is the most useful program I've ever seen. You take the time to do an OS load properly. I.E. load up ALL the security patches, fixes, etc. Drivers, etc. After 100x reboots, you're done. Three hours at least, right? Right.

Immediately after you get the OS "finished" you Ghost it to that partition you have (or network location, or wherever).

Now, if down the road your OS gets hosed for whatever reason, you can Ghost back that FRESH, squeaky-clean OS in about 10 minutes or so!!! What a great program.