Ghost 2003?

[Gorrillasnot]

Hi all.. I'd like to make a full clone backup of my hard drive using ghost 2003. I would like to have it on a bootable CD.
I gave it a try last night. I chose "disk to image" w/ -ib switch, picked my burner as destination.
It asked me if I wanted to make the image bootable. I chose yes. It then said something about needing boot files(cant remember exactly) and said if I continued I'd still need the boot floppy.
Is there anyway I can back up to CD and have it bootable with out needing a floppy? Is there someway I can make a single bootable floppy with the necessary CD-ROM drivers and ghost.exe on a single disk and therefore when backing up, ghost will find the files it needs to make the CD bootable without the need for a floppy when restoring?

Also when using sysprep should I use the -pnp switch or -reseal -mini switches to make my backup work on my other comp?

thanks

 

[FiLeZz]

These 2 ways will work.

1st ghost can make a floppy with cd-rom support. Make that floppy first.

If not then look on the web for a win98 boot floppy, or goto http://www.bootdisk.com/ and download a floppy with CD-rom Support.


Then use nero to make a bootable CD-rom, Point it to the floppy you just made. and burn the cd with these files along with the ghost.exe file and your image files. use ghost exlorer to manage the ghost files to the right size to fit on cd rom-- or you might want to do all this on DVD.


Boot with the new cd or dvd and if you want to get all automated make an autoexec.bat to launch the ghost.exe or just launch it yourself.

What I like to do rather then this method is to boot from CD or USB Key and have the image on the network and pull the ghost file right over the network.

 

[Gorrillasnot]

is there a way I can make the CD bootable at the time of making the image instead of making the image then burning it to a bootable disc in nero?

 

[FiLeZz]

I think you can have ghost burn to cd.. But that also is a boot floppy made in the ghost 2003 console.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: phatTweaker

Also when using sysprep should I use the -pnp switch or -reseal -mini switches to make my backup work on my other comp?

-pnp shouldn't be used anymore unless you have ancient ISA hardware.

mini & reseal will be fine. Be sure you download the correct version of Sysprep - there's a version that goes with every XP service pack that's released.

To avoid disk controller issues, either add the 2nd computer's disk controller to Sysprep (complicated if you're not familiar with modifying text files and reading helpfiles), or change the disk controller to a Standard IDE controller (and don't reboot prior to kicking off Sysprep). I'm assuming both computers use standard PATA IDE.