Making a bootable Win-derived USB key for Ghost 9 recovery?

[Marc_G]

Hi folks-

Ghost 9.01 newbie here.

How can I get the bootable Ghost 9 recovery environment (normally a bootable CD) onto a USB memory key, making it bootable (my T42P can boot from USB)?

My prior experience is all with Drive Image 2002, which was a DOS executable, so all I needed was a bootable DOS key with the DI executables. But time marched on, and DI was discontinued in favor of Ghost.

I wasn't able to use DI2002 successfully to image my new laptop direct
to DVD (assorted weird problems) so I bought our corporate standard
Ghost. I'm on 9.01.

The main drawback I can see is that restoring the system drive requires
booting the specific windows-based CD with recovery console on it. I don't want to
have to carry it around, and there are problems when my recovery image
media needs the same drive as the recovery console CD.

Since Ghost 9 is built on Windows NT, I can't just run executables from DOS. I need to get the whole recovery environment onto the USB key.

Any thoughts?

Marc

[MadeInJapan]

Search making a flash memory USB key bootable here in this forum. Plenty has been written about how to do it. I use a utility made my HP and it works well. When the utility asks for the DOS bootable files, direct it to the files you would use for the Ghost CD...then copy all of the files you would normally make the cd with onto the USB key. It's very simple and works great. This is exactly what I do to ghost my drive once a week. Only difference is that I use Ghost 6...but wouldn't think that 9 has changed that much.

[Marc_G]

Hi MIJ-

Thanks for the reply.

Actually there's a BIG difference. The previous versions of Ghost all used DOS as the boot OS. It's easy to make a bootable DOS USB key.

Ghost 9 doesn't use DOS at all.

The recovery environment is basically the Windows XP (or maybe NT) recovery console, not DOS. So there's none of the usual DOS stuff to bite into.

Essentially, I need to make a bootable "NT-style" recovery environment, completely devoid of DOS, so none of the bootable USB stuff I can find applies.

Marc

[MadeInJapan]

ah ha...then I'm stumped.

[selvan777]

Here's a thought, use Acronis TrueImage, it may or may not work with a USB key, I don't know. Chances are it will.

[Leeper]

Ghost 9 is useing WinPE I am pretty sure. Google WinPE and Bart to find more than you ever wanted to know about booting under WinPE. It should be possible to load WinPE on to a USB key if you wanted.


We build everything to DVD as there are a lot more options to hold tools on DVD.

[Marc_G]

Hi Leeper-

There's a thought... if I put the whole recovery environment onto the DVD (waste of space, but what the heck, still room for 4 GB of data) I'd be in good shape. Now I just have to figure out how to make the DVD properly bootable... I'll google the WinPE & Bart stuff. Thanks for the reply.