How to put a Ghost image (.gho file) onto a CD to boot? 1

[1LUV1T]

Hey guys, I have an image of a DELL GX150 that I made with Norton Ghost. The way I loaded the images before was using Ghost CD to boot then restoring image from network.

Some of these crappy GX150s dont have enough memory to load Norton Ghost, so I want to put that .GHO image on the network onto a CDR and then boot off of that an initialize an image restore.

How do I get these .GHO's to a CD?

Thx.

 

[ArizonaGeek]

There are a couple of ways you could do this. You could create a network boot disk and load your ghost.exe and images in the same folder on the network, boot the computer from the network bootdisk and start ghost.

Or you could create a bootable DVD/CD and load ghost.exe and the images on the disk. Boot from the disk and load the image.

Lastly, could boot to a usb key and load the OS super fast. On a USB 2.0 connection you could load an OS in less than 5 minutes.

Good luck!

Cheers
Rob

 

[1LUV1T]

Hmm thanks ArizonaGeek.
here's a related question;

My image file (.gho) is about 2.1 gigs.
The computer currently has Windows 2000 on it and a 20gig harddrive. When I boot with CD and choose to Load image from disk, select the 2.1gig ghost file, and then restore.

Is Norton Ghost actually formatting the Windows 2000 disk first then replacing it with my image?

 

[1LUV1T]

The image is from a DELL GX150, freshly formmated, and loading with Windows XP Dell OEM.

The image has to be put on all current DELL GX150 that are currently running Windows 2000.

 

[ArizonaGeek]

Is Norton Ghost actually formatting the Windows 2000 disk first then replacing it with my image?

It isn't formatting the drive in a dos/windows format sense. Basically Ghost assumes nothing is on the hard drive and overwrites the drive as one big partition. Or you can select a smaller partition but with 20 gigs that would be cutting it close by the time you do updates and other software installs.

If you are worried about something carrying across your installs you could prep all the hard drives with something like Active@Killdisk or Dariks Boot and Nuke to wipe the hard drive clean.

Cheers
Rob

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