niel4more

Does this help?

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Do you have a Ghost 9 or 10 CD? You could use the included legacy restore (ghost32.exe) which gets around the DOS/SATA/USB issues.

niel4more

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Ghost 9 and 10--you use the installation CD to boot to the Ghost Recovery Environment--there you look for the utility to restore *Legacy Ghost Image Files*.

The benefit of Ghost 10, it actually will allow you to create legacy Ghost image files of your HDD as well as restore them--Ghost 9 will only restore existing image files.

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You can use Ghost 2003 in DOS without a serial mouse--using keyboard arrow keys and the TAB key--but, I think Ghost checks for a serial keyboard and if not found, you get a boot failure.  If you're using a laptop--I think the keyboard and the touch pad are presented to the system as serial connections--but an external USB mouse would not be recognized--but, if you loaded a DOS mouse program, the touchpad would function for Ghost (this may not apply to all laptops!).

The program on Ghost 9 or 10 is called *RESTOREGHOST.EXE*--it is the *ghost32.exe* that is available on with Corp Ghost 8.x onward--it has to be run from within a Windows based environment, and when run, the title bar say its *Ghost32* and Ghost 10 shows it as version Ghost 8.2.

So, you can run it from the Ghost Recovery Environment (which is version of WinPE), or if you are a WinPE expert--it could be run from a booted version of WinPE, or if you're a BartPE user, *RESTOREGHOST.EXE* can be run from a boot to the BartPE environment.  Also, some folks create a separate primary partition on their HDD on which they load a WinOS that can be booted independently of another Windows primary OS partition--and you could then run *RESTOREGHOST.EXE* form that booted OS--you will see the other Windows partition (i.e. the non-booted to partition--your destination partition) in the list of partitions--and you can restore your previous image file to that destination--you then change the boot partition back to the one you just restored, and you should have that OS back again. 

But, you can not use Ghost32 to restore an OS image to the active OS partition that you are currently booted from--you would be attempting to over-write the OS that you are running Ghost32 from--it would *kill* the program!  You don't have those issues when booted to the Ghost Recovery Environment, WinPE, or BartPE--because they are loaded in RAM--so you are not over-writing the partition from which you are running the Ghost32 program from.

Also, you could possibly transfer your image file to another system that has a running WinOS, hook up your destination HDD to that system and then run *RESTOREGHOST.EXE* on that system and restore the image to that destination HDD--you can run *RESTOREGHOST.EXE* from any WinOS system simply by transferring the file to that system and clicking on it (you don't have to actually transfer the *RESTOREGHOST.EXE* file--you can simply but the Ghost 10 installation CD in your optical drive, find the file on the disc, and click on it--it will load and run from there as well!

Hope this helps and gives you options that make sense to you!

I ended up, by accident getting this done very easily.

I was downloading a copy of ghost 10 and while I was waiting......

The only boot disk I did not try from the ghost 2003 console was a standard ghost boot disk WITH USB Peer to Peer support. (obviously, I have another functioning computer)This combination worked perfectly from the 2 disk set that I made. Both my usb mouse and keyboard worked and ghost loaded up right away.