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Reinitialising CD-Rom in Dos

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Name: matrixnz
Date: December 9, 2002 at 13:36:33 Pacific
OS: DOS
CPU/Ram: P4 256mb ram
Comment:

Hi here is my problem

I am setting up two bootable ghost cd's, the first cd holds the first half of the image the second cd the second half, my problem is the second cd, when it boots it has the same menu as the first, however if you were to choose the first option which does an auto ghost, it will eject the cd and ask for the first cd, when you place the first cd in it cannot recognise it, unless you eject it again a couple of times, and then it can read it. Below is the autoexec.bat I'm using and also ghoscdrv.bat file which is the one that asks for the first CD.

Please help
AUTOEXEC.BAT
@ECHO OFF

CLS
MSCDEX.EXE /D:OEMCD001 /L:M

CLS
ECHO Creating RamDisk [Z:Drive]...
XMSDSK 8192 Z: /C1 /T /Y > NUL

PATH=Z:\;M:\EVOIMAGE\;M:\COMMAND\
COPY COMMAND.COM Z:\ > NUL
SET COMSPEC=Z:\COMMAND.COM
CLS
ECHO Copying Command Utilities to RamDisk [Z:Drive]...

COPY M:\EVOIMAGE\GDISK.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\EVOIMAGE\GHOST.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\EVOIMAGE\GHSTWALK.exe Z:\ > NUL

COPY M:\COMMAND\ATTRIB.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\CHKDSK.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\CLOSE.COM Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\DELTREE.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\DISKCOPY.COM Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\EDIT.COM Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\EDIT.HLP Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\EJECT.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\EXTRACT.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\FDISK.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\FIND.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\FORMAT.COM Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\GHOSAUT.BAT Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\GHOSCDRV.BAT Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\IEXTRACT.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\MORE.COM Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\MOVE.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\MSCDEX.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\READNTFS.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\REBOOT.COM Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\SCANDISK.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\SCANDISK.INI Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\SCANREG.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\SORT.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\SYS.COM Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\XCOPY.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\XCOPY32.exe Z:\ > NUL
COPY M:\COMMAND\XCOPY32.MOD Z:\ > NUL

PROMPT $P$G > NUL
\NET\NETBIND.COM > NUL
CLS
ECHO Loading Mouse Driver...
MOUSE.COM > NUL
Z:\
GOTO %CONFIG%

:GHOSAUT
GHOSAUT.BAT

:GHOSCDRV
GHOSCDRV.BAT

:MANUAL
ECHO LOADING...
GHOST.EXE
GOTO DOSPROM

:GDISK
ECHO LOADING...
GDISK.EXE /?
GOTO END

:GHOSWALK
GHSTWALK.EXE
GOTO DOSPROM

:DOSPROM
CLS
ECHO.
ECHO CDROM = M
ECHO RAMDRIVE = Z
ECHO.
ECHO Available Commands:
ECHO.
ECHO ATTRIB.exe GDISK.exe READNTFS.exe
ECHO CHKDSK.exe GHOST.exe SCANDISK.exe
ECHO DELTREE.exe GHSTWALK.exe SCANREG.exe
ECHO DISKCOPY.COM FORMAT.COM SORT.exe
ECHO EDIT.COM IEXTRACT.exe SYS.COM
ECHO EXTRACT.exe MORE.COM XCOPY.exe
ECHO FDISK.exe MOVE.exe XCOPY32.exe
ECHO FIND.exe MSCDEX.exe
ECHO.
ECHO.
ECHO.

:END

GHOSCDRV.BAT
@echo off
cls
eject.exe
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo Please insert CD 1 of 2 now.
echo.
echo.
echo.
pause
close.com
cls
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo Caution choosing this option will remove all information from C:
echo.
echo Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to abort, Now.
echo.
echo OR Ctrl-c to goto the DOS Prompt
echo.
echo.
pause
Ghost -clone,MODE=pload,SRC=M:\evoimage\evoimag.gho:1,DST=1:1,SZEE -fx
cls
eject
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo Please Remove CD 2 of 2 now...
echo.
echo.
echo Press any key when ready to restart your system
echo.
echo.
echo.
pause
close
reboot
Rem GOTO GHOSWALK

Cheers in advanced



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Response Number 1
Name: - Uziel -
Date: December 10, 2002 at 09:22:57 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Matrix, U'r using my favourite ramdisk-driver xmsdsk ;-) exel. choice!
(I'm using it for a 400 MB ramdrive, & never expirienced problems) I just
wonder if U maybe could help Me, because I see from above that U'r co-
pying the command-foldr-content & setting COMSPEC to the ramdrive...
BUT what do U do /do I have to do with the Config.sys SHELL-line ???
SHELL=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\COMMAND.COM c:\windows\command\ /E:16384 /P /F
I mean, I can NOT do like this ?! -the following won't work...
SHELL=R:\COMMAND.COM R:\ /E:16384 /P /F
...then I only get error because command doesn't yeat exist
,it's 1st gonna be copied there from the Autoexec.bat, so !!
_______________________________________________________________
ANY IDEAS where, then & how to insert shell-specifica. ??
Thanx in advance :-) .. (& sorry I can't be to any help for U:(


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Response Number 2
Name: - Uziel -
Date: December 10, 2002 at 13:05:32 Pacific
Reply:

Lucky! ..well I came over some I hope might be useful info for U:
Please take a quick look: " http://nu2.nu/bootcd/#aboutghost "
..also follow the 2 other links in that pages section. Good luck :)
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