NightOwl wrote on Dec 1^st, 2007 at 2:46pm:

No Problem.

NightOwl wrote on Dec 1^st, 2007 at 2:46pm:

No I didn't found it on the web.

NightOwl wrote on Dec 1^st, 2007 at 2:46pm:

Yes you are right. They are NTFS, how did you know?

NightOwl wrote on Dec 1^st, 2007 at 2:46pm:


I did a couple of test last night. I think it depends on which usb rom is plug into which usb port. For example my MB has four usb ports, I plug two usb roms (pioneer and hp) into the ports. It depends on which usb rom is detected first in bios.

Here is what I did and found out.
USB port A: Pioneer
USB port B: HP
Bios detected Pioneer first, the boot cd is in pioneer and it was able to boot. Then I place the boot cd in HP and restarted. Bios still detects Pioneer first but the boot cd is in HP, it wasn't able to boot. Then I switch the ports.

USB port A: HP
USB port B: Pioneer
With this connection, bios detects HP first so the PC booted when boot cd is in HP. The PC doesn't boot when the boot CD is in Pioneer. If I am not mistaken, the drive letter is always fixed even if I switch the USB ports.

I am thinking, I won't be too worried about this because I won't have plug in so many usb roms when doing a recovery. I only plug in two USB rom because I'd like to know wether the boot CD are able to detect them, but I could do more test if you need the info.

One thing, the boot CD wasn't able to detect my thumb drive. I don't know what is wrong. I search the net and found out how others are detecting their thumb drive in DOS. The config are almost the same with the USBCD, USBASPI and di1000dd. It did have an extra file emm386, do you know what this file is for?

NightOwl wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2007 at 9:17pm:

IC.

NightOwl wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2007 at 9:17pm:

Is it needed to detect USB thumb drive?

NightOwl wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2007 at 9:17pm:


I tried the booting from external dvd-rom with boot cd that was able to detect all my usb2.0 drives with the thumb drive also attached but got this:

Available ID = 1
ID 1 = HD .. ChipsBnkFlash Disk
#1 :     ???

Yes the thumb drive is format is in FAT file system.

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NightOwl...i need your help on the automated one. I took the disk that was able to support all the USB2.0 with this autoexec.bat:

@ECHO OFF
Path=a:\;x:\;x:\ghost;x:\pqmagic
mouse.com
mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /d:USBCD001 /l:x /M:16 /v

and replace it with this:

@ECHO OFF
mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /d:USBCD001 /l:x /M:16 /v
SET TZ=GHO+08:00
prompt $p$g
MOUSE.COM
for %%i in (x:\*.gho) do set image=%%i
echo Loading...
\ghost\ghost.exe -clone,mode=load,src=%image%,dst=1

Hoping to make it automated with .gho files in a DVD and inside an USB2 dvd drive. Above is the only changes that I did but I am getting error message:

The following file is missing or corrupted: DI1000DD.SYS
There is an error in your CONFIG.SYS file on line 3

The following file is missing or corrupted: USBCD.SYS
There is an error in your CONFIG.SYS file on line 4

The following file is missing or corrupted: OAKCDROM.SYS
There is an error in your CONFIG.SYS file on line 5

The following file is missing or corrupted: COMMAND.COM
Type the name of the Command Interpreter (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)

For this test I only connected the HP internal cdrom and the pioneer 5.25" dvd-rom with IDE to USB2.0 converter. The HP is detected as x: and the pioneer detected as y:

I tried changing(highlighted) in this line:

for %%i in (x:\*.gho) do set image=%%i

to

for %%i in (y:\*.gho) do set image=%%i

but still getting the same error. Please help

Thanks

Quote:

Yes...wonder why I keep getting this error message...What could have caused it

For the 2 tests, I changed the autoexec.bat content but the config and boot disk contents are the same as below.

In Config.sys
device=himem.sys
device=ramfd.sys
device=USBASPI.SYS /v /w
device=DI1000DD.SYS
device=USBCD.SYS /d:USBCD001
device=oakcdrom.sys /d:mscd001

files=10
buffers=10
dos=high,umb
stacks=9,256
lastdrive=z

Boot floppy content

NightOwl,

From reply #8, the boot section is changed to 2.88M with the ghost.exe in the boot section. Do you know how to make an automated one with the ghost.exe inside the DVD? keeping the boot section 1.44M.

NightOwl wrote on Dec 4^th, 2007 at 11:58pm:

I tried it out...here is what I got:

I used this autoexec:
mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /d:USBCD001 /l:x /M:16 /v
SET TZ=GHO+08:00
prompt $p$g
for %%i in (X:\*.gho) do set image=%%i
echo Loading...
X:\ghost\ghost.exe -clone,mode=load,src=%image%,dst=1

Then I got error message saying drive x: not ready. During boot I saw drive letter x: was assigned to an internal cdrom. The USB2 dvd-rom was assign to drive letter y: with the boot CD in it. I figure how to get the dvd-rom to always boot first so it will be assign to drive letter x:, then I tried this:

mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /d:USBCD001 /l:x /M:16 /v

I switch the /d:USBCD001 and /d:mscd001 like:

mscdex.exe /d:USBCD001 /d:mscd001 /l:x /M:16 /v

and it worked, the usb2 dvd-rom was detected first and assign drive letter x: . Ghost started and the rest is like previous (like reply #8).  

One question. How do we verify that the lines shown below are executed correctly or are they even executed at all.

SET TZ=GHO+08:00
prompt $p$g
for %%i in (X:\*.gho) do set image=%%i
echo Loading...

NightOwl wrote on Dec 6^th, 2007 at 11:33am:

Yes it did.

NightOwl wrote on Dec 6^th, 2007 at 11:33am:

I will try this out.

NightOwl wrote on Dec 6^th, 2007 at 11:33am:

Ghost did start and use the correct image.

Er.. I want to ask, I try to use the bootable CD, but it always fails when loading the CD-ROM. I'm using DVD-RW, but when I try to attach a CD-ROM, there is same problem. What's wrong?

Thanks before