Hello all and thanks for the great forum and walk through guides.

I have learned a ton from skimming these pages However, I was able to create several images successfully on a Sony Viao (700p model) I have been tweaking away at it and I continue to keep "re-imaging" till I get it just right. While, I have been highly successfully I still have one thing that is stumping me.

I have Norton Ghost 2003 and I can't get either a USB mouse or the track pad on the laptop to work. When you go and would pick like local image and then from then disk...or where you deem necessary.

I have gone under the "advance" tab on the N.G 2003 I have added teh Autoexe.bat and the Mouse.ini, and the Mouse.com. I got these files from http://radified.com/Files/ , and was using the ghost boot files. Now when I tested the disk the track pad just did not work, Also, when I plugged in the usb mouse the red optical mouse does come on but no mouse cursor shows up. I did go under the advance tab and selected Usb 1.1 drivers.

Any Ideas as to what I am doing wrong.

Ok, thanks for your help so far.

However, can I just add that DEVICE = Usbaspi.sys /norst /v /w /e into the config.sys file. All I had in there right now was LASTDRIVE = Z. Or do I have to add it under the advance tab in the CONFIG.SYS additions field like it is at this like http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=10954...

Also, where is that Usbaspi.sys file comming from. All I have or am point to put on my bootable cd is Config.sys, Mouse.com and mouse.ini. Do I need that Usbaspi.sys or will it auto put that in?


Thanks Obas

obas wrote on Mar 11^th, 2007 at 6:35pm:

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=11357...

obas

It's unclear what you are doing, and what procedure you are attempting!

Are you attempting to save an image to an external USB HDD, or are you saving to a second partition or internal HDD?

Does your BIOS provide USB DOS mouse support--a setting that says something to the effect *legacy USB support*?

Are you running your Ghost procedure from the Windows Ghost interface--or are you creating boot floppy disks or bootable optical media that you boot to DOS from?

obas

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Okay--make me guess--it would be nice to just say you're saving to optical media--rather than hiding it down at the bottom.

But, that answer is the *key*--you can place the *mouse.com* and *mouse.ini* file in the Ghost Options *User Files*--but, those files will only be active in the *virtual partition* during the Ghost procedure--and will not be placed on the bootable optical disc.

Turns out that using the Windows Ghost interface to create a bootable optical media, Ghost uses a boot image file that is pre-determined and the user can not alter it--and for unexplained reasons--that boot image file does not include mouse support.  You have to use the keyboard tab key and the arrow keys to navigate.

That's one of the reasons I created this

Guide

,

Creating Bootable CD/DVD's Without A:\Floppy Drive

--it's a custom boot disc that has DOS optical media access, and mouse support!

But, you have a USB mouse--I'm using a PS/2 serial mouse DOS driver that is very small in size--you may require a

USB mouse DOS driver

--and that may be too large a file to load in a standard 1.44 MB boot sector on optical media along with all the other DOS drivers + *ghost.exe*.  You may have to place the *ghost.exe* on the data portion of the optical disc in order to make more room in the 1.44 boot sector.

If your BIOS gives you built-in mouse support in DOS so you do not have to load a DOS driver, then you probably do not need to place the *ghost.exe* on the data portion of the optical media--you will have to do some testing to determine that.

You should not be loading Ghost's 1.1 USB driver--that's for HDD's only, and it will probably *kill* the mouse support from the BIOS if it's available.

Here's some resources discussing placing *ghost.exe* on the data portition of the optical boot disc:

Placing *ghost.exe* on the bootable CD/DVD project disc

Summary of adding USB support and DOS PartitionMagic to Bootable CD--see reply #6

Adding USB to Ghost Boot CD

obas

1.  The

Guide

has the link to the mouse driver:  http://www.bootdisk.com/readme.htm#mouse

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2.  If your data size is greater than  approx. 2 GB--DOS has a 2 GB size limit--so an image file set will have to be spanned.  Spanned files should not be a problem--if they are small enough to fit on a CD--you start Ghost with the *-split* switch to force Ghost to make the spans the size you need:  ghost.exe -split=750

will make image file sizes that will fit on a CD.

3.  I've not used Nero myself, but if it's the *full version*, I'm betting it does support the boot image file from WinImage--probably need to read the help files on creating a bootable optical disc from a boot image file--probably have to go to some sort of *Advanced* settings to set it up.

obas wrote on Mar 17^th, 2007 at 6:49am:

obas wrote on Mar 17^th, 2007 at 6:49am:

I do not quite follow the line of complaint as I believe Ahead's Nero and Roxio are in fact competitors.