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Message started by kurrupt on Apr 23rd, 2007 at 1:08am

Title: spanned images on 1 DVD
Post by kurrupt on Apr 23rd, 2007 at 1:08am
Hello guys,

I am trying to create a boot DVD with the OS and some Apps on it for quick recovery.. its only 2 files.. 1 *.gho and 1 *.ghs. I want to make this DVD 100% automated. Everything works 100% except it asks me to locate the spanned file on the DVD, once i do that i can continue. Is there a way to make ghost autoload the spanned file ?

here is my autoexec.bat:


Code:
@echo OFF
mscdex.exe /D:mscd001 /L:Q
Q:
ghost -fni -clone,mode=load,src=Q:\WINXP.gho,dst=1 -sure -fx -auto
ghstwalk /CN="<RANDOM_NUMERIC>" /SURE
echo Rebuild complete. Reboot Machine...

Title: Re: spanned images on 1 DVD
Post by Rad on Apr 23rd, 2007 at 2:12am
NightOwl is the resident bootable cd/dvd guru, but he's on vacation this week. Not sure if anyone else can help while he's gone.

Have you seen his guide?

http://nightowl.radified.com/bootcd/bootcdintro.html

Title: Re: spanned images on 1 DVD
Post by kurrupt on Apr 23rd, 2007 at 1:53pm
Ya i have read his guide, it is very good i may add :D but it does not mention anything about auto loading the spanned images within the ghosting process :(

Title: Re: spanned images on 1 DVD
Post by NightOwl on May 1st, 2007 at 11:50pm
kurrupt

Looks like you made the image to HDD initially--if both files are in the same directory together, I don't know why Ghost doesn't automatically see the next file in the image set.

As a possible work-around--if you have a compatible optical burner--you could boot to DOS, and have Ghost create your image set directly to optical media--then use that image set to create your restore DVD--does that image set allow for automatic spanning to the next file in the image set?

Title: Re: spanned images on 1 DVD
Post by kd6aaj on May 17th, 2007 at 6:55pm
I backup my PC in dos, then copy all the ghost spanned files to the same folder on my hard drive.

Then open the first .gho file with "Ghostexp.exe".

Then I save it as larger spanned images.



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