Ghost Options 1

[Diffy1]

Hi

We have Norton Ghost 2003 which we use to boot from floppy to a network share and backup/restore an image. Obviously problem is that most PC's don’t have floppy drives and Ghost hasn’t an option to boot from CD. Just curious as to what other options are available?

Many thanks in advanced!

 

[lopes1211]

You use your floppy to make a bootable CD. Another option is a bootable USB Drive.

-CL

 

[kmcferrin]

Or if that doesn't work you can make a BartPE CD with the ghost software on it.

What version of Ghost are you using? I would expect that the server/enterprise editions would include support for PXE boots. I know that Acronis SnapDeploy does.

 

[Nelviticus]

The version of Ghost that came after 2003 (version 9?) supported booting from the Ghost CD.

Nelviticus

 

[lopes1211]

Any bootable floppy can be turned into a bootable CD using most burner programs like Nero. You just need to select "bootable CD" in Nero and it will ask for you to insert your bootable floppy to use as the boot image. There is no special requirement on the version of ghost or any other type of software.

-CL

 

[MaxEd]

This is not necessarily true though. I've tried to create a bootable cd with nero and have NEVER been successful beyond windows 98. I have done it in the past using nero easily but the newer versions don't do it right for some odd reason. I recall researching on it and finally gave up and used a boot cd I downloaded online or one of my old ones I created years ago.


-Laughter works miracles.

 

[lopes1211]

It is true that any bootable floppy can be turned into a bootable CD. I see you mentioned an OS version (win98) which makes me curious what exactly you were trying to do and what was the issue. Not sure what you were doing but I agree a "boot set" like the 6 floppy disk installation set required to load WINXP cannot be magically merged onto 1 CD, but yes, I will stand by my statement that any single boot disk (like the winxp recovery boot disk made from Windows Explorer) can be turned into a boot CD via Nero. You do need to specify 1.44MB emulation and if you have issues, it may be your burn rate needs to be reduced (try 4x or lower, who cares, it's 1.44MB) but it works 100%.

-CL

 

[MaxEd]

My mistake the system boots but I couldn't get Norton Ghost to load. It kept coming up with some error. I can't recall since I've given up on it a years ago.

-Laughter works miracles.

 

[Diffy1]

Hi All

Many thanks for the response. A floppy Ghost boot disk (Created in Norton 2003) just doesn’t seem to want to boot when transferred to bootable CD. May just give up and purchase 9? if as Nelviticus says it supports boot from CD!

Thanks Guys!

 

[Nelviticus]

It does. I ony mentioned version 9 because it's the one I have at home - the latest is 12. If you're going to buy something new I have heard that Acronis Trueimage is better than Ghost at the moment. I haven't used it though.

Regards

Nelviticus

 

[Diffy1]

Much appreciated!

 

[ArizonaGeek]

Here are my instructions to getting Ghost to boot from a CD, works like a charm every time:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1367662

Cheers
Rob

The answer is always "PEBKAC!

 

[DrLar]

I have norton ghost enterprise 9.0 and it creates bootable CDs by itself, you just need to have the NDIS2 network card drivers, the program includes lots of cards and the rare cards (newer) that don't work have the driver on their webpage and work just fine.

If you copying HD to HD its way more easier, no net cards to worry about or share drives to store images.