I have a Acer Laptop 1500 with NO floppy Drive, 1 DVD- Burner and thats it. It has 120 GB HDD and I have a 300 GB External. I was Wondering how to Ghost it when it goes right to the DVD. (or I could Burn it) I really need help, Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. I have GHOST 2003 w/ Auto Create and Auto Restore. I had a friend help me make a boot disc but it would not load. I have The programs to Alter the ISO Files.


Thanks , THEHOBBOY

I want to make it so it is not Automatic. I want to burn it to a DVD. The Contains of the Files are:

Config.sys:

DEVICE = uhci.exe
DEVICE = ohci.exe
DEVICE = aspi2dos.sys
DEVICE = aspi8dos.sys
DEVICE = aspi4dos.sys
DEVICE = aspi8u2.sys
LASTDRIVE = Z


Autoexec.bat:

@echo off
mouse.com
path+a:/D:mscd001  /L:%CDROM%
set CDROM=FOO23
DETECTCD.EXE
IF "%CDROM%"=="FOO23" GOTO NOCDROM
%CDROM%
cls
ghost.bat
GOTO LQUIT
:NOCDROM
cls
echo
echo DetectCD was unable to determine the CD-ROM drive letter.
echo
:LQUIT
set CDROM=


Here are all of the files, How these help

could you please explain that a little better??? I can not understand what you mean

Andrew

Quote:

That's a very interesting/complex *config.sys* and *autoexec.bat* file--I presume this is the boot disc that your friend help you create!?

To be honest--I do not have experience with the process of *auto detection* of optical drive letters--so I don't know exactly how the above boot sequence works--I am unaware of being able to load DOS optical drive drivers without a *config.sys* driver to first mount any optical drives seen by DOS (for instance *oakcdrom.sys*)--and once mounted, your *autoexec.bat* does not appear to have any DOS driver that will assign a drive letter, i.e. *mscdex.exe*--so I don't know how your boot disc works.

Could you post a list of files that are included on the boot sector?

Could you post the contents of *ghost.bat*?

I need the above information to better understand what the boot files are doing, and where the *ghost.exe* file is located on the boot disc.

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But, more to the point--if you are attempting to write a Ghost image file directly to your optical writer, then you must use Ghost's built-in ability to access an optical writer and burn the image--and not use the DOS optical drive drivers--so you don't actually load any DOS optical drive drivers--unless you need to access *ghost.exe* on the data portion of the optical boot disc!

And, Ghost's built-in optical drive driver must recognize your optical drive in order to successfully burn a Ghost image to the optical drive!  You know that Ghost is recognizing your optical drive if the drive is listed in the destination drop-down menu list after the character *@....*.

So, what you need is just a basic DOS boot disc that can load Ghost--auto detection of the assigned drive letter to the optical drive might help create a more *universal* boot disc to work on different systems with different DOS partitioning structures--but, that's probably not needed here!

Another question, is your optical drive SATA or IDE controller based?