Windows ME (yuck) and stupid Max-Blast software... how to Ghost it?

[Dougmeister]

Will Norton Ghost do the trick or do I need something else?

You guys familiar w/ the MaxBlast thing? I know it's probably been a few years since you've had to mess with it.

Thanks.

 

[MadRat]

MaxBlast writes to the BIOS, not the OS. Run MaxBlast on the system first. Then GHOST. Should be that easy.

 

[Dougmeister]

More complicated than I originally explained.

Existing computer, want to get rid of Windows ME and upgrade to W2K. Only 1 20 GB hard drive in it.

Have an external USB drive (160 MB) and an internal 80 GB that I can temporarily pull out of my computer.

Will Norton Ghost recognize these when booting from the floppy?

Also, can I remove MaxBlast if the BIOS upgrade for her computer allows it to see > 4 GB?

 

[MadRat]

You will have to check the version of Ghost you are using, but most of the last editions since 7.x had no problem with 200+ GB drive recognition.

 

[Dougmeister]

Made a Ghost 7.5 Boot Floppy to use on the client machine.

I hit "Control" when booting, to allow MaxBlast to do it's thing, but then Norton Ghost could not see the slave hard drive I added to the computer (temporarily) to hold the Ghost image.

Should I use the USB external instead? Why wouldn't it see the hard drive I added? When booting, the computer (BIOS) saw it, and Ghost even sees it when choosing a source drive...?

 

[MadRat]

Did you check your jumpers? I used to forget to set the jumpers for the correct settings. Some CMOS systems will not recognize certain drives when set to master and there is only one drive. You can double check by setting the second drive on CS.

 

[MadRat]

btw- You really need to go download a copy of Bart's PE and read how to build a PE disk. There are alot of superior PE disks floating around in the IT world that can do all of this without messing with your configuration of the computer. PE disks make the best recovery disks in today's IT world.