Ghost Boot Disk Creator 3.0

1. Ghost Solution Suite 3.0 Boot Disk Creator

How to create & restore images with Symantec Ghost which is located in the Live State Recovery (LSR) 6.0x Product CDs. I386 Shell Ghost directory onthe Live State Recovery 6.0x product CD while within the recoveryenvironment. The files included are. Boot the system with the Live State Recovery 6.0x CD. If using an external. It is able to boot from USB though. I have a disk image (ghost) of the disk that I need to restore back onto the laptop. I can't find a way to actually run the Ghost utility from a USB key though. I believe the ghost.exe should run from within DOS just fine but I can't seem to create a bootable USB key with DOS on it that allows me to run an EXE.

1) Install Windows system on the master PC that installed HDD. 2) Install CCBootClient. 3) Using DOS version of Ghost to backup the drive C: of the master PC to image.gho. (You can use WinPE boot the client to run Ghost or other method to run Ghost) 4) Copy the image.gho file to the Windows 2008 server. 5) Right click on 'My Computer' and select 'Manage'. 6) In the pop-up 'Server Manager' window, expand the 'Storage' node, click 'Disk Management' in the 'Action' menu, click the 'Create VHD' (Figure 1‑1).

Figure 1‑1 7) In the pop-up 'Create and attach Virtual Hard Disk' dialog box create a VHD according to their own needs, you can also create a different capacity of VHD packages ( Figure 1‑2). Figure 1‑2 8) If the disk creation is success, initialize the disk and create a simple volume on this disk and then format (Figure 1‑3).

Figure 1‑3 9) Set the created VHD disk as 'Activated partition'. 10) Now use Ghost to restore the image.gho to the created VHD disk. (Using partition to partition method).

11) When down, Right-click the created VHD disk in the disk management and then select 'Detach VHD' disk operation (Figure 1‑4). Figure 1‑4 12) In the pop-up dialog box of 'Detach Virtual Hard Disk' click the 'OK' button (Note: detach the VHD without selecting the 'Delete the Virtual Hard Disk file after removing the disk' check box)(Figure 1‑5). Figure 1‑5 13) Now the vhd file can be used as boot image.

The steps to create a ghost boot disk manually is as follows: (please note you have to have the original symantec ghost solution suite installed for this to work and have the applicable ethernet driver folder on your C Drive) 1.Download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) for Windows 7 from the following URL: 2.Burn the WAIK ISO file to a DVD or extract the contents of the image file to a folder. 3.Install Windows Automated Installation Kit using default values. (StartCD.exe if you extracted the files). 4.Open Deployment Tools Command Prompt.StartAll ProgramsMicrosoft Windows AIKDeployment Tools Command Prompt 5.Mount a Windows PE image. A. copype.cmd x86 c: winpex86 b. imagex /mountrw c: winpex86 winpe.wim 1 c: winpex86 mount 6.Copy the ghost executables to the image.

A. copy 'C: Program Files Symantec Ghost gdisk32.exe' C: winpex86 mount Windows System32 b.

copy 'C: Program Files Symantec Ghost ghost32.exe' C: winpex86 mount Windows System32 c. copy 'C: Program Files Symantec Ghost GhConfig32.exe' C: winpex86 mount Windows System32 7.Add NIC drivers to the image. The following example command assume you downloaded the drivers such as Intel, Broadcom, and Realtek and added them to a folder called c: drivers.

The Recurse argument will search all subdirectories for all drivers to add. A. Dism /Image:c: winpex86 mount /Add-Driver /Driver:c: drivers /Recurse 8.Automate the initialization of Ghost as follows:.Modify the startnet.cmd batch file (C: winpex86 mount Window System32 startnet) with a new line stating 'x: windows system32 ghost32.exe' 9.Unmount the image. imagex /unmount c: winpex86 mount /commit 10.Close any windows showing this folder and any programs using these files. 11.Replace the default boot image in ISO with the new customized image.

Ghost Solution Suite 3.0 Boot Disk Creator

copy c: winpex86 winpe.wim c: winpex86 ISO sources boot.wim 12.Create an ISO file. oscdimg -n -bc: winpex86 etfsboot.com c: winpex86 ISO c: winpex86 winpex86.iso 13.

The ISO can now be burned to a CD or DVD as an image to make the CD/DVD bootable.