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Name: caliche
Date: November 28, 2006 at 17:06:10 Pacific
OS: Windows XP PRO SP2
CPU/Ram: 1.5GHz 512 RAM
Product: ACER
Comment:

Hi!

I made a bootable Ghost CD with some instructions on some website. It is basically a DOS bootdisk with an autoexe.bat file pointing to Ghost.exe.

Now, I'm wondering if there is anyway to make a partition that works similar to my CD: boot to Ghost.exe. If so, how?

"How do I?"



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Name: XpUser
Date: November 28, 2006 at 18:49:16 Pacific
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Let's us first see the instruction you're following. How do you expect us to help you if we don't know its content & direction.

i_XpUser


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Response Number 2
Name: Sabertooth
Date: November 28, 2006 at 19:04:49 Pacific
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I haven't used BootItNG but I have a feeling that may be the type of tool you need here.


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Response Number 3
Name: murr
Date: November 28, 2006 at 19:10:33 Pacific
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If you can afford to purchase software, i highly recommend these 2 products. I use FirstDefense and have 7 bootable snapshots. Some are used to take me back in time incase of recovery, others for testing programs and one is strictly a 'Gaming' snapshot.

http://www.raxco.com/products/fdisr/

http://www.horizondatasys.com/16961...


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Response Number 4
Name: caliche
Date: November 28, 2006 at 21:36:35 Pacific
Reply:

http://nightowl.radified.com/bootcd...

It's basically just a tutorial on how to make a bootable CD to use Norton Ghost (Ghost.exe, the DOS version)

What I want, is to create a new partition where the Ghost image will be. This is easy and I know how to.

Now since I'll be having that partition, why not having Ghost in that drive, this way I can run Ghost and restore or create another image without the need of a CD/DVD.

I'd take a wild guess and do the following with my limited knowledge:

Install a DOS version to this new partition, and to make it more automated, load Ghost automatically through autoexec.bat

I have a rough idea that I'll try on a virtual pc... so I'll come back later.

Any help?

"How do I?"


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