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Title: Ghost boot disk msdos files read 0 bytes Post by L Sanders on Jun 23rd, 2002 at 11:41am
:-/ Hi, I just downloaded your MSDOS boot files for Ghost and I noticed that the MSDOS.sys file has 0 kb as the file size. Will these files boot? I apologize if this is a dumb question. I appreciate your Ghost pages as I have had problems creating the boot disk for Windows 2000 Pro. I have SP2 installed and all Windows updates. I am using Ghost version 2002. Thanks for your help.
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Title: Re: Ghost boot disk msdos files read 0 bytes Post by lorensr on Jun 24th, 2002 at 12:48pm
Hi guys,
I need some assistance please. My system is as follows: AZZA P4XA MB with P4-1600 chip W2K Pro with SP1 Installed and updated totally with Windows Update 2 IBM IDE HDs, PlexWriter 12/10/32 CDRW, Iomega Zip100 (parallel), Nvidia RIVA TNT2 AGP card Other software: Adobe PhotoShop 7, PageMaker 7, NetObjects 7, WordPerfect Office 2002, Norton Anti-Virus. I have been trying to install Norton Ghost on this W2K box for a couple of days now. I will work with it for a while then pull my hair out and leave the computer for a while. Then back to it again. I finally retrieved a DOS 7.10 boot disk, and using only the system files that the tutorial said to use, copied Ghostpe.exe onto it. Added the semi-colon to the MSDOS.SYS file. I boot with this disk, I select local, disk, image and I get all the way through where I answer yes to create the image and I then get an error: something about dumping headers as media is not large enough. Does anyone have any experience with this ridiculous Symantec DOS based program? If so, I'd like to know what I am doing wrong. I did not create a config.sys file because I thought I read in one of the many Symantec Ghost documents that I was not supposed to put drivers in for W2k. Did I read it wrong? It is supposed to be an excellent program for creating an image of a drive in the event of an emergency. But I have to wonder what Symantec software engineers are doing with their time on the job. Thanks much. L Sanders |
Title: Re: Ghost boot disk msdos files read 0 bytes Post by Radministrator on Jun 24th, 2002 at 4:02pm
LS, the files will boot. They r what i use.
lor, if u read my ghost guide, u'll know everything i know about ghost. not sure what you're doing wrong. u don't need to 'install' the program, as it runs from (true) dos. |
Title: Re: Ghost boot disk msdos files read 0 bytes Post by lorensr on Jun 24th, 2002 at 6:32pm
Thank you I was successful finally....I appreciate your help.
My son has XP and I am going to read on imaging his system. L Sanders |
Title: the files will boot Post by ketamine on Jun 25th, 2002 at 3:05pm
Yes it did, Rad is right.
I, too, am using Ghost 2002 and just like you I encountered problems tho not that critical. I bought a P4 1.60A on a D845BG (can't tweak) board. I wanted my system to be "perfect" regardless that I experiment a lot and download a lot. After I full-installed XP Pro and CleanSweep, I imaged my boot drive (D:). The image was I think around 400+mb and I burned it on CD as ISO/UDF using Nero. Tested it by trying to load the image to another drive and reached "...deleted.... are you sure?..." part, which means I successfully imaged with Ghost. Then after two weeks, I wanted to imaged my boot/OS drive again and it resulted in a 900+mb image file. I wanted to burn it on 2 CDs so I "copy con"ed ghostpe.bat & put there "ghostpe.exe -split=680 -auto" so I can burn it on my 700mb CD-Rs. I ran ghost once more and STILL produced one 900+mb image file. Up to now, success hs eluded me on that part of ghost. Please help ??? |
Title: Re: Ghost boot disk msdos files read 0 bytes Post by Radministrator on Jun 25th, 2002 at 5:37pm
i don't understand ur problem.
btw - i've had nothing but problems with cleansweep. i don't install it any more. |
Title: Re: Ghost boot disk msdos files read 0 bytes Post by L sanders on Jun 25th, 2002 at 6:02pm
I don't understand this part of your message:
"Tested it by trying to load the image to another drive and reached "...deleted.... are you sure?..." part, which means I successfully imaged with Ghost. " |
Title: Re: Ghost boot disk msdos files read 0 bytes Post by nikos on Jul 29th, 2002 at 2:53am
Hi guys
It seems that i am not the only one who is trying to take an image. I have w2k and i my last attemp to get my image work was to create a dos disk from (98 se and also XP) then copy the ghost.exe. Still cant find those hidden drives any any any sug. thx nick why i not at the beach? ask symantec |
Title: Re: Ghost boot disk msdos files read 0 bytes Post by Radministrator on Jul 29th, 2002 at 3:45am
my computer > tools > folder options > view tab >
* show hidden files * unhide protected operating system files |
Title: Re: Ghost boot disk msdos files read 0 bytes Post by nikolaevits on Jul 29th, 2002 at 4:21am
Hi again
The dest must be FAT32 and not NTFS, i will try that to my image. thx nikos |
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