Norton Ghost 2002 problem

[outonalimb]

I have a Norton Ghost 2002 boot floppy that allows me to launch Ghost to duplicate my hard drives without the need for Windows.

However, I am finding the floppy disk to be unreliable and would like to create a bootable Ghost CD. This would be far more useful seeing as more and more PC's are being shipped without a floppy disk drive.

Can anyone help with turning my bootable floppy disk version into a bootable CD version?

Regards,

 

[tellyman]

As far as I remember, when you make a bootable medium you select bootable cd. It asks where the files are stored to which you just point it to drive A: which contains you original boot disc.

I found 2002 didn't work on NTFS drives!

Hope this helps.

 

[Jump1ng]

One other thing you need to be aware of is that your norton ghost is licensed to one machine and you are breaking the license agrement if you ghost other machines.

That aside you should be able to create a bootable cd from within ghost as tellyman said.

You might also want to upgrade to a newer version as 2002 doesn't support windows xp properly if I remember correctly.

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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

 

[outonalimb]

Thanks Jump1ng for your tip. I am currently in the process of upgrading to the latest enterprise version so I don't get myself into trouble!

Thanks.

 

[Jump1ng]

We noticed when we where looking into multiple ghosting of machines that its cheaper to get ghost corp editions as its cheaper per workstation than getting single copies of the standard ghost.

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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

 

[Rick998]

outonalimb,

Nero Burning Rom can create a bootable CD. You'll need to point Nero at the floppy drive containing your present 'Ghost' floppy boot disk.

We've found that our XP Ghost disk images are far larger than a CD can store (3.5+Gb compressed down to approx. 1.7Gb) so we create DVD's instead, either self-booting or using a boot floppy disk (often run from USB floppy disk drives as fewer and fewer laptops come with integral floppy disk drives these days.

Ghost 2002 sounds like the 'retail' version which doesn't support batch scripting (useful for if...then logic).

Ghost 7.5 Enterprise, IMHO, is excellent (and supports NTFS and scripting... but be aware of an easily-avoided compatibility issue with this version of Ghost and a clash with Broadcom Gigabit adapters/SATA controllers as used in Compaq Evo D530's).

Ghost 8.0 Enterprise, amongst other things, adds more USB support. Only downside I've found (so far) with v8.0 is that the 'Ghost Boot Disk Wizard' now needs to create 2 floppy disks instead of 1.

Only problem we've ever had is with Symantec's bulk licensing scheme which doesn't (in our experience) allow for aggregation of licences in order to allow lower price point reductions on the purchase of new licences.

Hope this helps...

Rick