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Thread ID: 67222	2006-03-21 10:38:00	Restoring WXP from Norton Ghost	Strommer (42)	Press F1

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439710	2006-03-21 21:00:00	Your only problem is the boot disk does not have a CD driver. I boot off a Win95 floppy with an old atapi driver in it and it happily finds any CD or DVD drive. Download a small atapi driver and add it to the floppy, with appropriate entries in config.sys and autoexec.bat. Or alternatively, boot off another boot disk containing a CD driver, swap floppy, load ghost.exe, then it will see your optical drive OK. The first file will be XXXXX.gho and then if it split the files, xxx1.gho etc etc	pctek (84)
439711	2006-03-21 21:50:00	TiJay - thanks, it confirms for me that 20 Gb is a good size. Your only problem is the boot disk does not have a CD driver. I boot off a Win95 floppy with an old atapi driver in it and it happily finds any CD or DVD drive. Download a small atapi driver and add it to the floppy, with appropriate entries in config.sys and autoexec.bat. Or alternatively, boot off another boot disk containing a CD driver, swap floppy, load ghost.exe, then it will see your optical drive OK. The first file will be XXXXX.gho and then if it split the files, xxx1.gho etc etc Thanks PCTek. If I decide to still use Ghost for future use, I will make a floppy as you suggest. But at the moment I am reinstalling WinXP from the MS disk, the usual way. Had a snag though: when the option came to press F8 to agree to the legal stuff, nothing happened.... the #*&^!#+ MS multi media keyboard I have does strange things with some F keys, so I had to drive over to a friend's house this morning to borrow his (normal) keyboard so as to press F8 to get a legal agreement..... damn Microsoft, producing a keyboard that does not work with installing its own OS....! And then I am required to reformat the HD before installing Win XP....why??? when I have already reformatted it using the Recovery Console? Strange. Just thinking aloud, folks, and providing amusement for the Linux people who hear that Linux is more difficult to install than MS OS's...!	Strommer (42)
439712	2006-03-22 00:34:00	ok you can do this with two boot floppies.........a win98 boot floppy which you use to startup the pc with 'cdrom support' as given in the floppy boot options then take that out and put in a disk with the ghost.exe file on it (you'll have to copy this I take it you are using ghost 2003 or similar) you'll find the ghost.exe on teh cd somewhre just copy it to floppy.......when you've got it booted with cdrom support then stuff in the ghost floppy and run ghost.exe then in the ghost program goto 'from image - to drive' and in the box where it shows you where to find the image use the tab key to get to the 'from' choices box you'll need to tap tab 8 times to get there......then use the down arrow to get the drives showing in the drop down list.....then arrow down to the one you want etc.......have the cd/dvd in the drive of course.......it's pretty simple really	drcspy (146)
439713	2006-03-22 20:31:00	ok you can do this with two boot floppies.........a win98 boot floppy which you use to startup the pc with 'cdrom support' as given in the floppy boot options then take that out and put in a disk with the ghost.exe file on it (you'll have to copy this I take it you are using ghost 2003 or similar) you'll find the ghost.exe on teh cd somewhre just copy it to floppy.......when you've got it booted with cdrom support then stuff in the ghost floppy and run ghost.exe then in the ghost program goto 'from image - to drive' and in the box where it shows you where to find the image use the tab key to get to the 'from' choices box you'll need to tap tab 8 times to get there......then use the down arrow to get the drives showing in the drop down list.....then arrow down to the one you want etc.......have the cd/dvd in the drive of course.......it's pretty simple really Is there any way to get DVD support using a floppy? I just cannot understand why Ghost would give the option of making a DVD to put the .GHO files onto, then at the same time make a floppy without DVD support. If CDs must be used, egad, there will be so many seeing that I will have about 8 Gb to restore! I wonder if instead of using Ghost, another program such as Powerquest Drive Image Pro would be better?	Strommer (42)
439714	2006-03-28 10:17:00	Here is an update to my continued problems with Ghost: Finally I gave up using Ghost version 8 since it would absolutely not make a boot disk as there was no option / no button to make one. It must be a corrupt program. So I installed Ghost 2003, which I have had for awhile. The good news is that it backed up C drive onto two DVDs, and I could clearly see the Command Line (for instructing Ghost to split the image file to fit on CDs), and I could clearly see the options for creating a Boot Disk. The bad frustrating news is that none of the floppy boot disks will work properly. I have tried with different floppies, and ticking options for USB support or not. But each time I try to boot from the floppies, error messages appear in the DOS set up stating such-and-such file failed to install; the end result being that the final Ghost screen fails to appear. Perhaps someone here on PF1 could email me the files so I can put them on a floppy (or two)? I assume that the CDR drivers would be generic and not specific for my computer, correct? But how about a DVD reader? Googling around, I did find Drive Snapshot, an alternative to Ghost. I managed to back up C drive onto 7 CDs. Drive Snapshot is free to use for 30 days and can be run from the desktop rather than from DOS. For more info look here (www.download.com) It seems to be a good program, but it would still be nice to clone the HD beyond the 30 day trial period by using the Ghost program that I have.	Strommer (42)
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