A question about ghost

daveg

Here's the situation. I have a PC. The floppy drive is fvucked. I want to put back a ghost image that I have on CD. Is it possible to do this without the floppy drive ?

I have created a bootable CD - booted into Dos - but cannot get ghost up as it is on floppy disc.

Anyone help ?

Krusty_Clown

Hmm...
Options:
1) Burn or buy a copy of ghost on CD, then copy it to the Hard drive.
2) Replace the floppy drive, with a working one.
3) Stick the HD into another machine which has a working Floppy, and copy over your copy of ghost...

daveg

Krusty

Options 2 & 3 make sense but 1 ?

Burn or buy a copy of ghost on CD, then copy it to the Hard drive.

How would this enable me to put back the image ?

jabberwock

How would this enable me to put back the image ?

you should be able to copy ghost to the HDD and then run it from there.
The only problem would be caused by ghost needing to be able to write its ghost.err file.

D-Generate

Yup you can run ghost from the hard drive, just place the ghost program in to say the C:
The problem is if you want to Partition To Image and ghost is on the C:, it won't allow you create an image of the C: only an image of the other partitions.

daveg

Okay to elaberate more....

PC has 2 partitions C: & - The image is for drive C: only !!

So if I copy the ghost program (ghost.pe) to the D drive. Then boot to dos with the bootable CD then run the ghost.pe form the drive, and then put back the image from the CD.

Will this work ?

jabberwock

yup once you are using the partition option and "from image" and not the disk option

daveg

Excellent. Thanks guys.

unkel

or upgrade to Ghost 2003 - then u can create bootable cd/dvd with image, so no more diskette needed :-)