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Re: Test Bootable Floppy
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That's somewhat weird behavior--being able to boot to *Safe Mode* one time--and then not again.
All of this sounds like there's some *problem* with the BING installation and useage--and your attempt to create that *boot.ini*--it sounds like something is being loaded during boot that is causing a system error/conflict.
That *SymSnap.sys and I investigated that and find it is a Symantec file from SNapShotDevelopment Edition Storage Craft Volume*--is that associated with Ghost 10?
I'm running out of ideas to try with the *present* system--another *recovery* idea could be tried--called a *parallel Windows install*--this is where you take your installation CD for Windows and boot from it, do a clean install on the C:\ partition (you have to have enough room), but choose a different installation directory like *Windows2*--you're not re-formatting, repairing, or over-writing your original Windows installation--just a second install--your original *Windows* directory remains untouched.
The hope is that the second install corrects whatever initial boot conflict that is occurring and allows you to boot to a functional new copy of WinXP.
You then have an operational WinXP OS--if you repair your optical burner problem--you should have access to the Ghost 10 download and the *Recovery Disk* .iso. Boot to the 'Recovery Disk' attempt to restore your backup of your original C:\ partition.
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I am still having problems getting my boot disk. I followed the Easter Egg. After the Create an MS-DOS Start up disk, I closed the box and right clicked on the A drive, but it does not give me the option to delete the files. Do I fomat at this point? I can double left click on A drive to open it,then delete all the files on individually. Is that is what I am supposed to do?
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I can double left click on A drive to open it,then delete all the files on individually. Is that is what I am supposed to do?
Yes--it's a *manual* operation--you are deciding to alter the contents of that *MS-DOS Startup Disk*--this is not a *default* Windows behavior.
You can highlite the first file, hold down the *Shift* key and then left click on the last file--this will highlite all the files in that *range*. Then delete them all at once.
Alternatively, you can hold down the *Ctrl* key, and left click each file you wish to select--each file you click will then be highlited, and you can delete the bunch all at once.
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Does the Zipped file from the web go on the floppy zipped ? If it does, at what point is it unzipped? I want to thank you for your help.
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Does the Zipped file from the web go on the floppy zipped ?
No.
Once you have downloaded the zipped file to your HDD, you can *extract* the files to the floppy--or *extract* the files to a directory on your HDD and then copy the files to the floppy.
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Just want to get this straight. Delete everything from the floppy including the MODE DOS Application.
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Delete everything from the floppy including the MODE DOS Application.
Yes--if you want to use *Sirhc's* boot script that is included in the download--then you use only the files contained in his zipped file--plus add the *ghost.exe* executable. The *Easter Egg* step is simply to create an *MS-DOS* bootable disk onto which to save the boot files in the zipped file.
Just to be sure, you did see this comment in reply #1:
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Having said all the above, I'm not sure what the advantage of following Sirhc's outline is...unless it's to create a boot disk without ever installing Ghost 2003 onto your WinXP system (in which case you will have to 'grab' Ghost.exe from the DOS sub-directory on the CD
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Re: Test Bootable Floppy
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Thanks NightOwl. Yes, a parallel install sounds possible and I will give it a try. Are there any special precautions that you could give me? Too bad I can leave off IE and OE during the install as they might overwrite me present installation... or would it? Come on, talk me into it!
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Bless you my friend. I appreciate the help. Have a good day.
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I'll be honest--I have only read about doing this--sounded like there would be few issues--any *common* files that are installed should be the same as what was originally installed (I'm assuming you are using the same installlation CD--I noted you said originally you had WinXP SP1--and then used a *slip-streamed WinXP SP2 in one of your latter attempts to solve the problems--mixin' and matchin' can have unknown effects!).
And, because you are not re-formatting--any files and settings since the first install that are not part of the install should be untouched by the second install--like data files--but the new install will not *inherit* the settings of the previous install--unless the *config or ini* files are a shared item that do not get over-written during install.
But, persumably, those are mute points if your intention is to use Ghost 10 to restore your previous backup image using the *Recovery Disk*--the *new install* will have never existed once you use the image and restore the C:\ partition.
You must use the *Recovery Disk*--you can not restore an OS partition that you are running Ghost 10 from!
Make sure you are restoring the *master boot record* as part of the restore!
Of course--you have done a bunch of things to the system trying to trouble shoot--hard to say what unknow *kinks* may occur doing a second install!
And, did you do an integrity check on that original backup image to be sure it's good? And everything hinges on a successful restore using Ghost--sometimes that doesn't work out for some folks for whatever reason!
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WilliamP
You're welcome!
Report back with the results of your efforts!
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Night Owl everytime I try to put Ghost into the floppy it says the disk is full. When I check properties it isn't. There is an empty Ghost folder on the floppy. What am I supposed to look for in the program file. There is Ghost with .98MB in it. I have tried[ copy and paste] also[ send to]. I didn't actually see anything that said Ghost EXE.
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Thanks again NightOwl. I Googled on Parallel Windows Install and found a few sites.....
This one:
http://www.windowsreinstall.com/winxppro/installxpcdparallell/indexfullpage.htm
gives a step by step, but really, no caveats.... but then I went to
their forum:
http://www.probz.com/bbs/index.htm
and on Page 1, Subject: "Is it time for an XP Reinstall?" The moderator, the same author of XP Reinstall above, says, "Make sure you save everything you don't want to loose onto a cd or 3rd party backup device, as all on the drive will be lost."
So is that a caveat or not? lol In the Reinstall guide above, there is no mention of backups and at the end, it even implies that drivers "may" have to be reinstalled..... I have a DiskImage of the screwed up C: drive, for what that is worth. It would be "difficult" to extract individual files from that.
So I am hinging everything on the Ghost10 backup.....
M$ offers this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316941#XSLTH315312112212...
with even less information......
What do you think? Is it time for an XP Parallel Install?
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Nov 20
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So I am hinging everything on the Ghost10 backup.....
Well,....it all depends on how important your data is on that drive. You said it's a FAT32 partition--you have a Win98 system that can read FAT32 partitions--you have options....
You could get another HDD and another copy of Ghost and *clone* the current *bad* HDD to the other HDD--use the new other HDD clone to do the parallel install so that the original is still untouched for possible future recovery if things don't go well on the *test* HDD. If the parallel install works and you are able to recovery the other Ghost 10 *Recovery Disk* .iso, able to use it to restore your image successfully--you're back in business--with a spare HDD to use for whatever.
If something goes wrong, you still have your original to work with for some other try.
Basically--each time you have tried some *recovery* effort, you have been at risk of loosing it all, being as the system is flakey and not responding in a positive fashion.
You will have to decide how fast you want to proceed--and, what additional precautions to take--unfortunately, I have no way to know if your Ghost image will work successfully on your system--only you can determine that--and you have to make the decision as to how to *safely* proceed from here.
You have never answered the question as to whether you can access the Ghost *Recovery Disk* .iso that's needed to create the *Recovery Disk*--if you can get that and have the *Recovery Disk* burned on someone else's system--you would at least have that to work with--I would still want to have a spare HDD and try my recovery to the spare HDD and keep the original for safe keeping until I knew everything was going to work okay.
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Nov 20
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Night Owl I have XP Pro SP2 and have Ghost loaded. If I go to the boot Wizard and create a boot floppy, will I have what I need to boot this thing?
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