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Making USB Drive Bootable?

  • 03-12-2007 9:02am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,844 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,
    I have a MyBook external hard drive, this one, and have it formatted to an NTFS drive. I tried to use Norton Ghost to save a ghost file on it (which it needs a restart and does it in DOS), but it wouldn't recognise the HD so couldn't do it.

    Does anyone know how to make the pc recognise a USB drive as a bootable drive, or to make Ghost recognise it?

    Any feedback appreciated:)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭martin84


    Do you have an option to boot from a USB drive in the BIOS?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,844 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    On my new laptop I do, I don't think I did on my old one though, which is the one I tried it on. Does it need to be set to be the 1st boot device though? Actually, to be honest, I'm not sure if it's even what I'm looking for. I just want Norton Ghost to be able to write to it before it gets to Windows, when Norton Ghost starts itself in DOS. Maybe this doesn't even require the usb to be the bootable drive and it's something else that's the problem, to do with the USB drive itself perhaps?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭martin84


    Ok well I use ghost here at work but its on a usb key. I used this tutorial
    http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm
    And then I just copied the ghost.exe and image file onto the key.
    Then went to the bios and select the USB drive as first boot device.
    Hope that helps.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,844 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Hi again, did you actually use Norton Ghost yourself? That link describes formatting the USB, I definitely don't want to do that, I just want the ghost image to be written to my USB hard drive. I've used ghost before and when I restarted the comp, the ghost image was burned to DVDR so hopefully it's something simple that I can just write it to the My Book the same way? I'm using ghost 2003 by the way if that makes a difference :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭degsie


    This any help?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭knird evol


    cormie wrote: »
    Hi,
    I have a MyBook external hard drive, this one, and have it formatted to an NTFS drive. I tried to use Norton Ghost to save a ghost file on it (which it needs a restart and does it in DOS), but it wouldn't recognise the HD so couldn't do it.

    Does anyone know how to make the pc recognise a USB drive as a bootable drive, or to make Ghost recognise it?

    Any feedback appreciated:)

    You need to seperate those two completely seperate tasks. Make a ghost image first and leave it aside somewhere first on a fixed disk.
    Secondly format this usb drive with a boot sector and dos start up and dos usb driver (panasonic one). copy on ghost exe (and autorun it) and copy on your ghost image file.

    Make usb disk bootable....
    http://aaltonen.us/2004/03/01/tip-boot-from-usb-key-addendum/

    Panasonic v2.20 ASPI Manager for USB mass storage devices as well as the Moto Hairu Mass Storage ASPI driver......
    http://www.x-ways.net/replica-m.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,844 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    See I don't want to format the USB drive because it's a 500GB'r and I've about 350GB full, which will take about 24 hours to put back on and I've nowhere really to put the files:o


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭knird evol


    In that case Cormie you cannot use this disk. The dos usb driver supports only using one usb device, otherwise it freezes up...so you cant boot up with another usb device eg key fob and then take the image off your usb hard disk.
    If you want the ghost image to be stored on the usb hard disk and for it not to be bootable then whatever machine you are using it on will need to have a bootable fixed disk which runs ghost and selects the image off your usb disk.

    You havent said exactly what you are trying to do. There is probably a simpler way of doing it.


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