earl

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Really!  Wow--I have not used any of the more recent Ghost releases beyond Ghost 10, but that version, I think (I haven't played with it recently), required a min. of 256 MB of RAM in order to boot to the Recovery Environment off the installation CD.  1 GB--that's a lot!

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Well, if you have the full version of Ghost 2003 on an installation CD, then when you install the Windows Ghost interface, you get a Ghost Boot Wizard that gives you several options for boot floppy disks--one of which is a DOS USB external HDD driver.  It was included with Ghost 2003--licensed by Symantec--created by Iomega.  It worked fine--if your system's USB controller and your external USB HDD's controller were compatible--but, there where many that were not--and are not currently!

Quite some time ago, I discovered this DOS USB HDD driver:  A Better USB 2.0 DOS Driver for Ghost + More!.  As far as I know, it has been the most widely compatible DOS USB mass storage driver.  There are not a lot of them to choose from--DOS is not the dominant way the general public uses for computing any longer--so there's not a lot of motivation for companies to develop this type of driver!

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The only DOS based Ghost version available currently is the Corporate version--currently Ghost Solution Suite 2.5--you get the DOS Ghost program that is v11.5 in that product.  USB support has been built into the DOS executable *ghost.exe* since Corp. Ghost 8.x--I'm not sure if it was there from the very first in v8.0--or later in v8.1, v8.2, or v8.3.  Prior to that, Corp. Ghost v7.5 was the version that most resembled the retail Ghost 2003--and v7.5 required a separate DOS driver the same as Ghost 2003 to access external USB drives.

(Note--there were no Corp. Ghost v9x, or v10.x--those numbers were used by the retail versions of Ghost--that occurred when Symantec was seriously considering dropping DOS Ghost all together--both retail and Corp. versions--but they later changed their minds--but, they wanted to keep the Ghost name for the retail market--so they started using the *Ghost Solution Suite* (GSS) versions numbers instead--v1.x, and now 2.x--but the included DOS *ghost.exe* has the v11.x (or older versions were v8.2, and v8.3) that came with the various GSS versions.)

You might be better served with the offerings from TeraByte's group of Image for Windows, DOS, and Linux, which are still being actively developed!  I've not used their products yet--Ghost 2003 still works fine on my older system--so I don't know for sure what the DOS compatibility is with their Image for DOS based program and USB external HDDs.  I don't recall seeing any threads here in the forum on that specific issue--but, I may have missed it!

Hope this helps.

Get the dos usb driver from panasonic:
http://panasonic.co.jp/pcc/products/drive/cdrrw/kxlrw40an/download.html
Its named Extract it and navigate to folder under the directory where you extracted the file. You will find .
I think its the same one NightOwl is referring you to

earl wrote on Apr 13^th, 2010 at 10:22am:

What is it that you really wanna do? What do you want to use the DOS HDD driver for? Because you are saying you can boot with a floppy and access Ghost 2003---Then you do not need a driver for the HDD if you want to restore it ! Or you want to utilize an external USB HDD? Then use that panasonic driver from config.sys

I have a nexstar dx true image 2010 works but not ghost grrr.