If exist d:\ghost\image1.gho ren d:\ghost\image1.gho image2.gho If exist d:\ghost\image2.gho ren d:\ghost\image2.gho image3.gho All very confusing but I'll figure out what the "boot record" is one of these days - still much to learn!Īnother question: I've been playing around with bat files to automate the image file creation process as described in Rad's guide and I've come up with the following which seems to work quite well when made an AUTOEXEC.BAT offĮcho -Įcho Up to three Ghost images of the XP partition will be maintainedĮcho in the Ghost folder on the Backup partition.Įcho Three Ghost images are stored in the Ghost folder. I guess that bit about the boot record pointing to the NTLDR file not letting a Win XP formatted floppy act as a DOS boot disk even with Win9x boot files on it is the answer. I thought that if you formatted a floppy under win XP using the FAT File System and then copied the Win 98 boot files:, io.sys, and msdos.sys, it should work. Radministrator, I sent the zip file to your email address as given by your email icon but it bounced (permanent fatal errors, User unknown, etc) Would you please send me an email from your working address and I'd be happy to try again. Rebooting my PC with the floppy in its drive automatically loads Ghost with PS2 mouse support and the rest is as per Rad's Guide. So, here are the details of the files on my now successful floppy disk: I keep a very basic installation of Win98SE on a geriatric 1.2GB HD (the kind that sounds like a WW2 machine gun) just for these occasions. The version of Ghost 2003 must be dated 12-24-03. The disk must be formatted and created using Windows 98.Ģ. I learned that the most important points to pay attention to are:ġ.
zip) from the Princeton University's server the problem was solved. My original 2003 ghost.exe was dated 10-01-02 and displayed "Norton Ghost 2003 Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Symantec Corp" and I was at a loss to understand why restored images of Win ME worked perfectly but restored images of WinXP Pro SP2 refused to boot past the dreaded blue screen.Īfter upgrading ghost.exe to the 12-24-03 version contained in the file ng2003b793_en.x86 (change the. My PC is fairly basic: ASUS/AMD system with two parallel ATA hard drives (as per Rad's recommendations) and WinXP Pro SP2 on an NTFS partition. After a lot of hassles and research I managed to assemble a simple Ghost 2003 bootable floppy disk that, with a minimum of effort, creates and restores Windows XP Pro SP2 images perfectly and, as a gesture of appreciation to this forum, I thought I'd post the details for the benefit of others.
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