Hi All

I am wanting to create a restore dvd with ghost 11.5

What i would like to do is run ghost from dos and When i backup the image to DVD, i need to make it bootable

I need to create the bootable CD with a custom menu if possible.

all i need is the restore option with an added saftey "are you Sure" prompt before it restores to the HDD

As ghost 11.5 is over 2MB i need to make it using the 2.44MB image file (or is there another way?) so not a lot of space for other files?

Cheers in advance for any help

help@service2u.co.uk

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Should be doable.

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I can't speak directly about Ghost 11.5, but Ghost 2003 has the ability to create a bootable optical disc as part of creating an image file and saving it to optical media--but, Ghost puts its own generic boot files if you have used the Windows interface to setup this up, and then re-booted to the *virtual partition* to perform the DOS procedure,... or, if in DOS, asks for the floppy boot files in drive A:\ that you used to boot to DOS in the first place.  If you booted from a bootable optical disc, then Ghost 2003 will use the files on the *virtual floppy A:\* drive if you click through the menu asking for the floppy files in A:\.

I don't know if Ghost 11.5 has that similar ability or not.  And, you do not have a *custom menu* unless your floppy disk boot files have that customized boot menu.  You can boot to DOS using one floppy disk or floppy boot set of disks, load Ghost, and then use a different floppy disk that has your custom boot files on it when it asks for the boot files before creating the bootable disc.  You can use a Ghost switch in the command line to tell Ghost to place a copy of the *ghost.exe* on the data portion of the optical disc--so the boot files can access that program during boot after DOS optical drive drivers load and assign a DOS driver letter to the optical drive.

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The DOS *choice* command will pause boot file execution, and you define what to present on-screen as to what the choices are, and the user has to make a selection before execution proceeds.

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That will work if there's enough room for the other boot files.  Alternatively, you can place the *ghost.exe* in the data portion of the optical disc, and load DOS optical drive drivers from the boot files so a DOS drive letter is assigned to the optical drive--once the optical drive has a drive DOS drive letter, you can load *ghost.exe* from the data portion of that boot disc.

Ghost 11.5 should include a *Ghost Boot Wizard* for creating various boot disks and discs for Ghost.

Further reading:

Rad's Ghost Guide on batch files:  Norton Ghost: Automated Batch Files

Creating a bootable optical disc even if you do not have a floppy drive:  Creating Bootable CD/DVD's Without A:\Floppy Drive

How to place *ghost.exe* in the data portion of a boot disc if the boot files won't fit in the hidden boot sector of the boot disc:  Placing *ghost.exe* on the bootable CD/DVD project disc, and Summary of adding USB support and DOS PartitionMagic to Bootable CD--see reply #6, and Adding USB (and Firewire) to Ghost Boot CD

Example of advanced custom DOS boot menu--this is for placement on a hidden boot partition of a HDD, but it can be adapted to a boot disc:  NightOwl's *automated* files

You can see the use of the *pause* and *choice* command in *autoexec.bat*:

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