Newbie Ghost Questions

[setaanbomb]

I am using Ghost that is packaged with System Works 2001. I want to create a disk to boot to and ghost up my system partition to a second hard drive in my PC. Since I'm not trying to load an image or ghost an image to another PC I shouldn't need to add any Network or USB/LPT drivers. Is there a standard boot disk that will permit me to ghost my system partition to a second drive in my PC?

I tried creating a bootable diskette with just USB drivers, but when I try to boot to the disk I get "Cannot find NTLDR, please restart your computer". I am running windows 2000 pro as the sole operating system. In my PC are two hard drives, a 30GB and a 20GB. The 20GB drive is one FAT32 partition. The 30GB drive is split into 3 10GB primary partitions. Have I forgotten to do something? Do I need to manually edit the boot disk to accommodate for NT based operating systems?

Thanks in advance.

 

[celeritas]

Try this: howto make 2k boot disks. You can also get them here: zip. You'll this need too: rawwrite.

 

[setaanbomb]

I know how to make Windows Bootdisks. I want to know how to create a bootdisk for Ghost that will work with Win2k.

 

[celeritas]

See if any of these help.

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[setaanbomb]

Thanks a lot Celeritas. I really appreciate it.

 

[celeritas]

NP. Please let us know what ends up working for you. BTW, are you sure that the 2k part of the 2k+ghost boot disk you're trying to make is correct? It seems like the NTLDR error is an OS issue, not a ghost misconfiguration. Just checking... Is your 30GB drive NTFS?

 

[setaanbomb]

It's not NTFS. All my drives are FAT32. I think Ghost has a difficult time creating boot disks for NT based OSes. I can boot to a custom created boot disk that includes the ghost.exe utility. My own Disk boots fine, the disk created through the Ghost GUI doesn't.

 

[wreed]

Try this site too, at my job I make bootable CDs that ghost the image onto the computer. I use NERO (cause it makes bootable cds from WIndows bootdisk) and I use the autoexec on the boot disk to put in the commands to load ghost automatically. I think this is what you are interested in, email me and I will send you a copy of the autoexec, if you are interested in the ghost syntax. I do not know if i can explain this in text, but if you would like to contact me on the phone, email me and I can talk you through it. Also see if this site helps at all.

Ghost Support

 

[chemwiz]

Wreed, ygm. If you don't mind, I'd like to get a copy of the autoexec too.

 

[mOrphine]

im kinda confused... if a bootable cd containing a win2k (ntfs) image is created with a win9x boot floppy, when restoring the image onto a partition, would the partition be using ntfs or win9x file system?

would i have to do anything to the partition BEFORE retoring the image so that it will be using ntfs as the file system?

 

[macssuck]

I have seen that message on all the boot disks that I make on Nt4 or WIN 2k I either make them under win9x or more recently I started making those self-extracting bootdisk images that you see on the net at places like bootdisk.com where you could download one of thier images and see if you can boot from it.

 

[macssuck]

mOrphine: Ghost makes a complete image of the hard drive or partition you select that means everything including whatever file system is on the drive and you dont have to do anything to the hard drive before you ghost it.

 

[Mytv]

Go the easy way and buy another harddrive. I have 3 hdd running and when I need to back up my system I reboot to another drive and copy it.
No software
No hassle
So Simple :0

 

[macssuck]

Mytv what but if your system crashes and you have to start over you would have to reinstall all your apps. but I just put my bootable ghost cd in and im good to go in about 10min. instead of spending 3hr restoring my system

 

[FOBSIDE]

does ghost automatically make the CD's bootable or do you have to specify that somewhere?

 

[macssuck]

If you use ghost 6.5 it should make them bootable i belive but im using 6 still so i have to do it manually

 

[FOBSIDE]

what about ghost 2001? im assuming anything above 6 will do it then?