I have a large Norton Ghost Image stored on an IDE hard drive. And I have setup the hard drive in one of those external USB 2.0 hard drive cases. Is there a way I can use a Norton Boot disk that will boot up and see the USB device and therefore allow me to browse to it once ghost is loaded, so I can then select the image file? I see in my Version of Ghost 7.5 that there is a USB option in the Boot Disk Wizard. But its for using a USB cable between to computers in a Peer-to-Peer setup. If anyone has done this let me know. Or let me know any handy methods someone has devised for pushing large image files using a convenient and PORTABLE method. (I don't have a laptop either) PLEASE....No suggestions to burn the image across several cds. Cheers. Matt.

I was able to find instructions for making a bootable USB disk. It works with the Lexar Jumpdrive. Haven't tested it will any other USB devices. Here the instructions (Completments of Daniel Billings) *************************** You should probably have a local guru (with DOS experience) do this for you! You can use - A DOS USB boot disk Heres how: (1) http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm - download thu MSDOS 6.22 boot image (1a) extract it to a floppy - you will need to remove several files to make room for the USB driver and edit a few other files (1b) Remove the following files from the disk: attrib.exe, deltree.exe, qbasic.exe share.exe, setver.exe restore.exe, tree.exe, cd1.sys, cd2.sys, cd3.sys, cd4.sys (2) http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/download/usb-dos.php - scroll to the bottom of the page and download the mhairudos.zip - extract it and (2a) load di1000dd.sys and usbaspi.sys to the disk from mhairudos.zip (2b) load Notepad and open CONFIG.SYS, change it to read: DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off FILES=30 BUFFERS=20 devicehigh=USBASPI.SYS /w /v devicehigh=DI1000DD.SYS LASTDRIVE=Z (2c) Save it (2d) open AUTOEXEC.BAT and delete its contents (3) REBOOT, BOOT from drive A (3a) follow onscreen instructions NOTE: the drivers dont seem to work with VIA USB chipsets but I have had success with many other chipsets; also if the system is a laptop and the USB is on a PCMCIA card you may need DOS drivers for the PCM bus/controller. Best of luck, Merry Christmas - Daniel Billings

burn images ona single dvd...u can get aberner for like 40 bucks at www.tigerdirect.com...and dvds only cost lik 50 cents for a 4.7 gig dsk Duct Tape is like the Force, It has a light side and a dark side and it holds the world together!

hi matt, I understand you're using external USB 2.0 hard drive. If its brand new, could you replace it with CMS Velocity External SATA Drive? This one DOES BOOT. Go here: http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,1583,a=121396,00.asp

I faced the problem of my Ghost 2003 boot disk not seeing my 2.0 USB Western Digital external hard drive. What worked for me might (or might not) work for you in your situation: I found that if I made the Ghost 2003 boot floppy with USB 1.1 support RATHER than 2.0 support -- eureka! -- I can see my USB hard drive after booting with the boot floppy. I never could see my USB drive when I selected USB 2.0 support or check the box on the left for peer to peer USB support. I think it's a hardware issue more between the PC and the USB adapters (or some mojo like that). Maybe this doesn't apply. Hope this helps somehow. -- derrick