I want to set an auto restore in WinPE(Ghost32). Basically I want to boot from DVD (with Ghost image in it), auto launch the Ghost32 to restore the image. No user interact, no prompt for span files.

Is this possible?

Brian,

The one created by GSS 2.05 with the latest patch, not that often. We restore as need it. In case of physical damage of hard disk, and we have to replace it with a new one.

Some of them has 1 hdd, and some are servers.

 Johwwy

Do you know how to load WinPE *automatically* after inserting the DVD?  

Do you know how to put a batch file in for WinPE to run once loaded--could this be a registry entry for the *run once* key?  Might have to have some sort of delay to make sure WinPE gets fully loaded before initiating the batch file.

I'm not a WinPE user/expert--so would need to determine if that's possible--if *yes*--everything else should be doable--and I could help with that!

If you know those two things, then you could launch Ghost32 in the batch file, and use command line switches to control what Ghost does in terms of using the Ghost image on the DVD to load to one or more of the partitions on the system's HDD.

Brian

Do you know how to launch Ghost32 automatically from within BartPE/ReatogoXPE once it's loaded?  Can BartPE/ReatogoXPE be loaded automatically from a DVD disc when booting from it?

I found some scrappy notes about how to do it. I was using imagewc.exe but I guess the ghost plugin would use similar edits.

In ifw.inf this section worked..

[SourceDisksFiles]
; Remove the semicolon from the line below to make IFW V2 load at BartPE startup.
autorun_ifwv2.cmd=2,,4
cdboot.f35=a,,4
IFW.ini=a,,4
ifw.bat=a,,1
imagewc.exe=a,,1
imagewc.ini=a,,4


My autorun_ifwv2.cmd was..

@echo off
Title IFW V2 AutoRun
start "" /D%~d0\programs\ifwv2 %~d0\programs\ifwv2\ifw.bat
exit




My ifw.bat was..

path=X:\Programs\ifwv2;%path%
H:
CD \BackupImages\IFW
imagewc /r /d:w0@0x2 /base:WinXP /f:BRIAN /v /a /uy
exit

Don't ask me to explain the above. It's a dim memory.

NightOwl,

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Automation. Say you have a 50 GB image (which I don't have) on your HD  that you want to restore. (I chose a large image to rule out images on DVDs). Put your ReatogoXPE CD in the drive, click restart and when you return from a long lunch, the restore has completed.

I don't use floppies or optical discs for restoring now. I use Image for DOS in a bootable file.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/howto/howto-ifd-bootfile.htm

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IFW creates images from Windows. It restore images of non system partitions from Windows.

IFD creates and restores images from DOS. Basically it's used for restoring images of your OS. You can use a floppy or CD. Or a bootable CD/DVD containing the backup image. This disc is pretty automatic too. No menus. Just click Yes.

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Please check this link below
http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1217024697/

You just need to use a batch file or command line for Ghost32. If you making WinPe using Ghost, you get the commandline option while creating the ISO. You can use the command lines by providing information at that time. Else you can manually add this batch file in the WinPE. But to execute the batch file u need some tweaking of WinPE image. You need to read documentation for that.

Also having ghost images on CD/DVD but it has some limitations which has been mentioned in the post. So read each and everything carefully to avoid later problems.

Hope this helps

ben_mott wrote on Oct 5^th, 2008 at 2:40pm:


Check this post

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1211223513

Created this with free tools using ghost(paid) and enable F10/11 recovery and explained with snapshots of stages.