Hi, i am very new to Ghost and i need some help from the more experienced users.
my question my be very silly, but it has baffled me for days.

i have ghost 2003 and Xp as my OS.
i want to make an image on a second HDD.
once i have made the image on the new HDD, how do i boot to ghost.exe so i can restore the image?
i have tried to make a boot disk using the Norton Ghost Boot Wizard, but when the pc starts, it tries to boot to the floppy and then i get an error, telling me to press any key to restart. i.e. i dont get a command prompt to allow me to run ghost.exe

so my question is: How do i run ghost.exe so i can restore my image, bearing in mind that i have Win XP(NTFS) and that doesn't support MS-DOS?

any help is greatly appreciated and many thanks in advance.


PS: in addition to using the wizard to create a boot floppy, i made an MS-DOS start up disk(by right-clicking a: the format and ticking "crete MS-DOS..."). i managed to boot to the disk, but obviously that doesn't have ghost.exe on it.
i even tried swapping the MS-DOS disk with the ghosts boot disk half way through, but it never worked.
i managed to see the contents of the disk, but not able to run ghost.exe. it just hangs.

Hammer,

Is, or will, the second HDD be an internal IDE drive? Is it a serial or parallel drive? What's already on the second HDD? An operating system or just partitions, or maybe nothing at present? What are the respective sizes of the HDDs and will your PC's BIOS support the second HDD?

It might help us if you were also to determine the Build of Ghost 2003 you're using? Is it 793, or earlier? Open Ghost and look in Help/About Ghost 2003, to find out.

Whether and how you make an image to a second HDD will be determined by your particular setup, so you need to give us more information.

Normally, you wouldn't need to run MS-DOS. The default DOS environment of Ghost, PC-DOS, is usually sufficient. From the Ghost point of view, it's more a matter of starting with a reliable up-to-date Build and then, depending on your setup, setting the correct options when making the boot floppy.

Not withstanding any crucial info you've not given us, Hammer, I agree withaw13973, though you did state that you wanted to make an IMAGE, not a clone. I therefore presume you want to make a single file image (compressed or uncompressed), not a disk clone. Indeed, you might be wanting to make a PARTITION image.

Are you sure you, as yet, understand the difference between IMAGING and CLONING?

i agree with above.

don't mess with msdos.

it requires 2 disk boot.

as far as i know needing a 2 disk boot is the biggest drawback to using g 8.x

keep us posted.

we can all learn from each other.