creat bootable usb ghost drive

[PEO]

Hi

 

we use floppy disks to boot computers when creating/restoring images. could do with getting rid of the huge mountain of disks. is there a step by step guide anywhere that can explain how I can go about creating a bootable USB ghost disk?

 

Thank-you

[marco84]

Below is a quick run through of how to make a bootable USB stick for ghost....

 

make a set of bootable floppys with ghost 8.5 and check they boot the machine into ghost

install the HP Drive Key Boot Utility on your PC

insert pen drive run hp app as follows

1st screen next

2nd select pen drive letter next

3rd screen leave default next

4th screen leave default next

5th screen leave default next

it will now format

then offers

HP firmware

or floppy (chosse floppy)

insert your 1st ghost floppy and enter names (doesnt matter what you call it)

It will now create the image boot file from the 1st floppy

Click finish

Now install win image

start win image click file open navagte to your pen drive it will pick up a img called whatever you named it in the hp util

select it and it will open and you will see the files in it.

Insert ghost floppy 2

the clickImage from the tool bar in win image change format and change to 2.88

now select the ghost folder inside the image pain then from the tools menu select inject and you want to inject the

ghost.exe file from the 2nd ghost floppy then save in winimage and you are done.

[SYNACK]

Here is the download for the util reff'ed above HP Drive Key Boot Utility - HP Business Support Center

 

This might help if you want to expand it to more than a ghost disk at some stage:

Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD

Pe2usb: Installing Bartpe To Usb Flash Disk - The CD Forum

WeetHet - Boot from USB Flash drive

Edited May 2, 2008 by SYNACK

[PEO]

Below is a quick run through of how to make a bootable USB stick for ghost....

 

make a set of bootable floppys with ghost 8.5 and check they boot the machine into ghost

install the HP Drive Key Boot Utility on your PC

insert pen drive run hp app as follows

1st screen next

2nd select pen drive letter next

3rd screen leave default next

4th screen leave default next

5th screen leave default next

it will now format

then offers

HP firmware

or floppy (chosse floppy)

insert your 1st ghost floppy and enter names (doesnt matter what you call it)

It will now create the image boot file from the 1st floppy

Click finish

Now install win image

start win image click file open navagte to your pen drive it will pick up a img called whatever you named it in the hp util

select it and it will open and you will see the files in it.

Insert ghost floppy 2

the clickImage from the tool bar in win image change format and change to 2.88

now select the ghost folder inside the image pain then from the tools menu select inject and you want to inject the

ghost.exe file from the 2nd ghost floppy then save in winimage and you are done.

 

 

spot on mate thank you, works a treat.

 

Right so I've got one type of NIC card driver on it, how do i go about adding additional drivers?

[markcuk]

this is very good FlashBoot

 

mark

[plexer]

pxe boot it then you don't need to worry.

 

Ben