I just reformatted my laptop and got almost everything back on it. The things I don’t have on it I don’t want on the ghost image.
throught a lenghty process I made a ghost of the laptop C: partition (fdisk>format c:> load win 98> load all programs I want & settings> use partition commander to create d: extended partition> ghost C: to file on D:> booted to win 98 used network to move ghost file to desktop> used partition commander to get rid of d: and increase c: to max size. >used ghost explorer to split ghost image into 640mb sizes to burn to cd on desktop.) phew…
and here I am now. What I want is to be actually be able to use these images if I need to restore the laptop on the road or such. My concern is I don’t see any way to make a bootable CD and If I use norton boot disk it doesn’t allow me to access the cd drive. What do I need to do to either:
1 make the ghost CD bootable and be able to restore the C: drive off of it.
or
2 make a ghost boot disk that will allow me to restore the image.
(3 Hi Opal)
If I’m reading your question correctly, and it’s entirely possible that I’m not, you need to know how to make your CD-ROM first (or at least in) in the boot device list, right?
I’ve always set that in the BIOS.
After reading your OP yet again, it seems you may also be trying to create a boot CD instead of a boot diskette. I’d just take an existing boot diskette and burn it onto a CD.
For some reason I’m not gleaning what you need to know from the OP and I don’t want to insult you with simple answers.
The bios is find, it boots a then the cd drive then C. If I put a win 98 cd in it it will boot that up (unless the floppy is there also).
What I want to know is…
Lets assume the HD crashes and I need to restore from the ghost image. Windows will not boot nor can I get into command mode via the harddrive. What will I need in order to restore the harddrive with the ghost image?
I think I would need 3 things:
1- the ghost images themselves (which will be on CD)
2- the ghost program to read the images
3 - a bootable removable drive (cd or floppy) that will allow me to access the cd drive and run the ghost program.
what I’m asking is how do I get #3
that should read
the bios is set fine, it boots A: then the CD-drive then C:
Ok, so you’re running win98? Make a windows startup disk. This will, at the very least, give you a bootable floppy disk. It’s been forever since I’ve made one, but I have a recollection that it will also load IDE CDROM drivers for you - which is probably what your notebook is using.
If you need an IDE CDROM driver, email me (max@maxxxie.net) and I’ll send you one. From there it’s just a matter of writing a simple CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT to load the driver, run MSCDEX (to assign the drive a drive letter under DOS), and load Ghost.
Incidentally, I’m not aware of any way to make a CD bootable after it’s already been burnt. However, you can certainly make a bootable CD during the initial burn process. How to do this varies according to the software you’re using, but essentially you tell it you want to make a bootable CD and you give it a system disk (ie your win98 startup disk) and it makes the disc bootable. Tell it what file you want on the CD then burn, baby, burn.
Hope this helps. Let me know if you need a driver.
Max.