how do i add -IB switch to ghost 2003 ?

i want to use ghost 2003 build 793 to boot.

i can not figure out how to use the -IB switch which was recommended by Lenovo.

thank you.

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Okay--sounds like you have a laptop from Lenovo (formerly IBM), and you are using a USB external floppy drive, and booting directly to DOS from a floppy disk.

I presume you have *Legacy USB Support* enabled in the BIOS.  When I last looked at a Dell laptop's BIOS, it said you must enable that function if you want to have the ability to boot from an external USB floppy drive.  That may not be true of a Lenovo laptop, however.

Does your Ghost boot floppy disk load Ghost for you automatically?  Or, do you arrive at a DOS prompt and have to type *ghost.exe* manually--or have to change to some other directory manually first before typing *ghost.exe*?

If Ghost is loaded automatically, then the command to do that is in the *autoexec.bat* file on the floppy disk.  In Windows, use *Notepad* to browse to the floppy boot disk in the floppy drive and open the *autoexec.bat* file (you may have to tell Notepad's browse window to show *All File Types* in order to see it--if just *Text (.txt) file types is shown, then the *.bat* file will not show up!).

Probably at the end of the command lines, there will be a line with *ghost.exe* in it.  To add the *-ib* switch, simply edit that line--after *ghost.exe* put a *space* and then *-ib*.  So it looks like this:

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Then save that edited file back to the floppy disk.  You should be good to go.

If you start Ghost manually, then just type the command as shown in the quote above and Ghost will start so it images the whole boot region sectors 0 - 62, and not just the default sector 0.  This preserves the special boot codes that allows you to access the Diagnostic and probably the Restore functions during boot up if you press the proper key sequence.

On a Dell, the same issue is present.  But, if you change anything as far as the partitioning of the HDD, or if you create a Ghost image and restore it to a larger HDD--that *breaks* the ability to boot to the Diagnostic or Restore functions because the Dell boot code is *hard wired* to the original HDD layout and size.  Dan Goodell has a repair utility to help with that if needed. 

I don't know if Lenovo has the same issues or routines.

i am trying to use ghost 2003 to clone the sata hard drive in my Lenovo SL-510.

i tried Local disk to image.  it did not recognize the internal dvd.

i tried a disk to disk peer to peer.  it would not work. got error message ~ can not lock volume. i continued anyway.  got error ~ can not continue.

i removed the hard drive from the Lenovo and tried to do a disk to disk in another computer.  got similar errors.

above was with ghost boot disks without switches.

then i added -IB one space after ghost.exe in autoexec.bat, but got same error messages.

suggestions, please

thank you for the assistance.

i have two sl-510 lenovo laptops, and may buy a third if i am able to clone the hard drive in machine A so i can have an exact copy to  install in machine B and machine C.

just this a.m. i was able to boot machine A from floppy with -ib switch and start making a dvd.  i will update progress tonite.

i hope to be able to restore that image into machine B.

i could not find an ndis2 dos driver on google or Lenovo web site, or i would have tried peer to peer over network.

thank you for the reply. i abandoned the project.

NightOwl wrote on Dec 8^th, 2010 at 10:45am:


@NightOwl

Why not use the correct numbering scheme: Sectors 1 thru 63 for the extended boot area aka Boot Tract?
Perhaps a detail, but many references to the boot sector per se is to sector 0, while we after a looong (   ) thread
have defined sectors as starting at 1 and ending at 63. We agree upon LBA 0 = first sector of the disk, which translates to first sector(1) of first head/track(0) of the first cylinder(0)...

Perhaps the 'sector 0' name comes from LBA 0, anyway not worth a new thread.