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Not able to select a harddisk (partition )
Jan 19^th, 2008 at 2:17pm

Hi,

I'm Ron and new here.
I have the following problem.
I have used Ghost 7.0 quite often on a 1.44 MB floppy and it worked perfect.
Since I have a new computer with no floppy drive I have to boot from CD
So I had to made a bootable CD
The topic "Guide to creating bootable CD/DVD's without A:\ floppy drive" from NightOwl was easy to understand and very helpful.
Thank you NightOwl!

But there is a small problem which I'm not able to solve:
The CD is booting fine and Ghost is starting normal.
But when I want to select a drive (my *.img is located on a harddsik partition) I only see the a: Local drive, b: Local drive and x: [GHOST_BO.OT_] CD Rom drive
I'm not able to select any harddrive.

I followed exact the steps that NightOwl in his topic described.
The Ghost.exe file is a copy of the Ghost.exe file (Ghost 7.0) on the 1.44 Floppy

Please NightOwl or some one else can you help me?

Thanks in advance.

Ron

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Re: Not able to select a harddisk (partition )
Reply #1 - Jan 19^th, 2008 at 3:35pm

one of your hard disks or partitions got to be FAT32
that is where .gho image lives
or be on root of Cd where you are booting from .
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If you need to partition your hard disk here is a FREE Linux Partition magic Boot CD
you can use it for windows NTFS too

http://partedmagic.com/
http://partedmagic.com/downloads.html

here is a free tool to Burn ISO images (needed for above) to CD-R
http://www.imgburn.com/
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regards Ben
Ben

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	Re: Not able to select a harddisk (partition ) Reply #2 - Jan 19^th, 2008 at 6:52pm Ronnie Hi Ronnie, and welcome to the forum! Quote: Since I have a new computer Tell us more about that new computer! Per chance are you using SATA HDDs and SATA controllers?!
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Re: Not able to select a harddisk (partition )
Reply #3 - Jan 20^th, 2008 at 3:24pm

Hello Ben and NightOwl,

Thanks for replying,

In the meantime I'v been succesful in this particular case. That is, I created a bootable CD by following the steps of "Guide to creating bootable CD/DVD's without A:\ floppy drive" by NighOwl and attached the image.gho on the same DVD.
This works fine. Thanks again NightOwl.

But still I like to have a bootbale CD starting up GHOST but without any Ghost-image on it.
In Ghost (when Ghost has starting up) I want to select the image.gho file on the second partion and dump it to the first partition (C:\)
In this way I used Ghost 7.0 on a 1.44 floppy succesful for years.

My "new computer" has indeed SATA HDD's and controllers, but other some computers, which have IDE controllers, has the same problem when I tested the bootable CD: That is, I don't see any harddisk(s).

Do you need more information?

Greetings from Holland,

Ron

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Re: Not able to select a harddisk (partition )
Reply #4 - Jan 26^th, 2008 at 1:04am

Ronnie

Are you still working on this--the recent board upgrade has been distracting my spare time!

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The Ghost.exe file is a copy of the Ghost.exe file (Ghost 7.0) on the 1.44 Floppy

What is the file system on that second partition--NTFS?

I think Ghost 7 is able to *see* NTFS partitions in its DOS interface, but it can not *see* Ghost files if the image is stored on a NTFS partition! Ghost 7 has to save an image of a NTFS to a FAT32 or FAT16 partition--and can not save to the NTFS! And if the image is on a FAT partition, then Ghost can restore it to where ever.

Ghost 7.5 added the ability to save or restore from a NTFS partition.

Does this explain the problem you are having?

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	Re: Not able to select a harddisk (partition ) Reply #5 - Jan 27^th, 2008 at 2:06pm Thanks NightOwl, Sorrie for the delay in my reply. I guess you're right and I'll have to get the 7.5 version of Ghost or higher. For the moment I solved the problem by putting the ghost file on the DVD. Thanks for helping and advising. Regards Ron
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Re: Not able to select a harddisk (partition )
Reply #6 - Jan 28^th, 2008 at 12:45am

Ronnie

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I guess you're right and I'll have to get the 7.5 version of Ghost or higher.
For the moment I solved the problem by putting the ghost file on the DVD.

Another option--does your second partition where you want to save the Ghost image file need to be a NTFS partition--could it be FAT32? You would then have access for saving the image to that partition and restoring from it!

Just a thought!

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