Re: Will not boot to dos for Ghost or Drive Image

From: Don Hamilton (CDHamilnospam_at_excite.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:57:58 -0600

"Bob Harris" <rharris270[SPAM]@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uptHKtnBFHA.3236@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> GHOST 2003 can be run in two modes, one you execute from within XP, and
> the other you execute directly form a boot floppy. The mode running from
> within XP is less reliable, since it has to set up a batch file that plays
> a virtual partition. On a bad day that can leave the PC unbootable from
> the hard drive. If you have worked yourself into that corner, I recall
> reading that Symantec had a simple (DOS-based) batch program that could
> fix things.
>
> But, run from a DOS floppy, GHOST should work, even if you have a bad hard
> drive, or no hard drive. If things are bad enough, GHOST will not be able
> to "see" the hard drive or deal with it, but GHOST itself will still run.
> Of course, this assumes that you have the fisrt boot device to be the
> floppy. Some PCs come form the factory with the CD as the first device,
> and so they will ignore a GHOST floppy. You can make the floppy the first
> boot device by going into the BIOS setup, BOOT tab, and changeing the
> order of boot devices. I recommned floppy, then CD, then hard drive.
>
> It is possible that the GHOST floppy is bad. You might try a random win98
> or ME boot floppy and see whether that can boot the PC. Such floppies are
> available from www.bootdisk.com. If the hard drive is formatted as FAT32,
> a DOS floppy should be able to see it. To change form A:\ to C:\, just
> type C: at the DOS prompt. But, if the har drive is NTFS, DOS will not
> see it, unless you run special drivers. The read/copy drivers are free
> from http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdos.shtml
>
> By the way, the XP CDROM (retail version) is a bootable CD and can be used
> to run the XP recovery console. This has some ability to fix things, such
> as master boot records and file systems. Consider running CHKDSK C: /R
> from the recovery console, it may help things. For other recovery console
> items, type HELP within the recovery console. For info hoe to start the
> recovery console, see the following links:
>
> http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm
>
> http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy33.htm (near bottom)
>
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_rec.htm
>
>
>
> "Don Hamilton" <CDHamilnospam@excite.com> wrote in message
> news:10vnmcnat7vd551@corp.supernews.com...
>> Since the latest security updates XP sp2 will now not boot to Dos for
>> Ghost or Drive Image. Both get many errors from reboot and will not run.
>> I even tried the Ms Dos version from Ghost 2003 and it will not open. Any
>> ideas?? Thanks Don
>>
>
Thanks for the help. I believe the problem is in the getting my cd and dvd
available during the reboot. I am able to reboot to a prompt from a 98 start
up disk. My c: is a fat 32 but the drives I was backing up are ntfs. I have
used Drive Image 5.0 with no problems but it will not reboot. I am still
learning ghost. I am getting closer.
Don

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