I have an HP Pavilion Notebook with a USB 2.0 PCMIA card attached to an external Iomega HDD drive, becuase my onboard usb 1.1 ports are excrucatingly slow. Until reently, I was unable to use Norton Ghost to image my notebook's hard drive after it restarted in DOS. I have now been able to do it successfully with the instructions that floow below, when using Ghost from 2 floppy disks. I wish to thank kurtlinux from the Experts Exchange for persevering with me and helping to solve this thorny issue. I hope this works as successfully for you in your particular system. ---Nick Baldo GETTING GHOST TO WORK THROUGH A LAPTOP USB 2.0 PCMIA CARD TO AN EXTERNAL DRIVE 1. MAKE GHOST FLOPPIES FROM NORTON GHOST UTILITIES -USB support, Advanced button, all drivers -Let it quick format the floppies or you will interrupt it's progress 2. DOWNLOAD HIMEM.SYS FROM INTERNET -If you are using XP, you cannot use it's himem.sys file, so go to www.bootdisk.com -Download the Windows 98SE botdisk, extract it to a formatted floppy -Copy himem.sys to your Ghost floppy 3. DOWNLOAD THE CORRECT USBASPI.SYS AND DI1000DD.SYS FROM THE INTERNET -Go To www.cisnet.com/gennmcc/download/usb-dos.htm and scroll to bottom of page -Download both kxlrw40an.exe and mhairudos.zip -Extract kxlrw40an.exe first, then copy its USBASPI.SYS (1/26/02) to the floppy -Extract mhairudos.zip, then copy DI1000DD.SYS to the floppy -Do not copy the USBASPI.SYS from mhairudos.zip since it is older 4. EDIT CONFIG.SYS ON THE FLOPPY -Replace the existing config.sys lines with th following: [menu] menuitem=FROMFLPY, This computer was started from a Ghost boot disk menuitem=FROMCD, This computer was started from a Ghost bootable CD [FROMFLPY] [FROMCD] [COMMON] LASTDRIVE=Z DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS FILES=40 BUFFERS=20 STACKS=9,256 DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICEHIGH=USBASPI.SYS /v /w /e DEVICEHIGH=DI1000DD.SYS 5. NOW REBOOT AND CROSS YOUR FINGERS -Enjoy:)

Please make the following correction to the text I just posted above: http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/download/usb-dos.htm Sorry for any inconvenience, njb

GREAT JOB njb !! I Only had to change 1 line for SUCCESS USING GHOST with THINKPAD. Remove: DEVICEHIGH=USBASPI.SYS /v /w /e Add: DEVICEHIGH=ASPIUHCI.SYS /v /w /e one of the default driver provided by ghost 2003. using w2000 and external USB Mass storage Thanks so much !

It looks great but it didn't work for me. I have the same problem except I want to put my laptop's Ghost image on my desktop comp. The LTP uses WINME & the desktop WinXP Pro. Can you advice the changes needed to be done. I did execatky as written but got an error executing the DEVICEHIGH=DI1000DD.SYS Probably because I have a host to host USB connection cable. I will very much appreciate help in solving the matter.