How do you run Ghost w/o a floppy drive?

[Passions]

I am trying to image a persons laptop, and they didn't give me a floppy drive. I need to start up in true dos mode, but I have Windows 2000. So far, I popped in a win98 cd and booted to dos, but it won't read any NTFS drives. I can't execute ghostpe.exe and start it that way either. ARGGGGGGGGGG!

 

[unclebabar]

Hello,

I don't think win98 supports NTFS, so you wouldn't be able to read a NTFS partition from DOS. You might be able to see the partition within Ghost, but I think ghost version < 6 or so doesn't support NTFS I think you need a patch to get the 2001 version to work with NTFS.

I've been trying to make a bootable ghost cd-r (but failed) here. This is with Win2000 and NSW2002Pro.

Failing that you could 1) try disconnecting the hard drive try mounting it in a system with a floppy and ghost it from there or 2) boot another system and ghost over LPT or TCP/IP.

 

[Passions]

Sweet, I got my problem solved. Here's how I did it.

I burned the Norton Ghost folder (w/ ghostpe.exe) onto a cdr. Then, I booted up with a Win98 startup disk w cd support. I popped that disk out, then put in the Norton Ghost cdr, executed ghostpe.exe, and bang! Norton Ghost starts up. I couldn't image the partition to the NTFS drive, so I had to burn it to cdr directly, oh well, but I got a solution. Woohoo!