How to create Bootable media to Restore Ghost image Automatically
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Hi all
First of all I appreciate for all kindly messages that i have got from all over world,
that was thanking about my tutorial "universal ghost image for all computers".
When reading posts in tutorial mentioned above and other the same tutor for windows 7,
and also from messages i have got ,I saw that many of users want or need to make a
bootable DVD to restore the ghost image.
So in this tutorial i am going to show how to do that in easy steps.
There are several programs that you can use to get image of sealed partition and
restoring that to other computer .But i think the best one is Norton Ghost .
In my exprements,with ghost and other utilities i found ghost is the best,easy,and
you will encounter least problem by that.So i will talk about using that.
In steps below i suppose that you have created your ghost image ,and you have saved
that by the name of MYXP.GHO in D:\My_Ghost\ directory.
Do as steps below:
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1.Download bootDisk.zip (1.55MB) from link below
http://users.telenet...es/bootdisk.zip
2.Extract bootDisk.zip to D:\My_Ghost\ directory,you will see it has
files ( bootdisk.exe and bootimage.ima).
3.You do not need bootdisk.exe in this tutor ,so you can delete that.
4.Open notepad ,type lines below on it,then save that by the name of
CONFIG.SYS (Not CONFIG.SYS.txt) in D:\My_Ghost\ directory :
[menu]
menuitem=GHOST, Restore partition with Ghost.
menudefault=GHOST,0
menucolor=7,0
[GHOST]
device=himem.sys /testmem:off
device=oakcdrom.sys /D:cdrom001
device=btdosm.sys
device=flashpt.sys
device=btcdrom.sys /D:cdrom001
device=aspi2dos.sys
device=aspi8dos.sys
device=aspi4dos.sys
device=aspi8u2.sys
device=aspicd.sys /D:cdrom001
[COMMON]
files=60
buffers=20
dos=high,umb
stacks=9,256
lastdrive=z
device=display.sys con=(ega,,1)
country=001,437,country.sys
install=mode.com con cp prepare=((437) ega.cpi)
install=mode.com con cp select=437
install=keyb.com us,,keyboard.sys
5.Open notepad again ,type lines below on it,then save that by the name of
AUTOEXEC.BAT (Not AUTOEXEC.BAT.txt) in D:\My_Ghost\ directory :
@ECHO OFF
mouse.com
path=a:\;%CDROM%:\
cls
IF "%config%"=="NOCD" GOTO LQUIT
LH MSCDEX.EXE /D:cdrom001 /L:%CDROM%
set CDROM=FOO23
DETECTCD.EXE
IF "%CDROM%"=="FOO23" GOTO NOCDROM
%CDROM%
cls
IF "%config%"=="SUCD" GOTO LQUIT
ghost.bat
GOTO LQUIT
:NOCDROM
cls
echo.
echo DetectCD was unable to determine the CD-ROM drive letter.
echo.
:LQUIT
set CDROM=
6.Open D:\My_Ghost\bootimage.ima by UltraISO (or any other your favorite program
like winimage) ,and change the files (AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS ) inside that
by the ones you have created above ,then save.
7.Open notepad type line below on it and save that as ghost.bat (Not ghost.bat.txt)
in D:\My_Ghost\ directory:
GHOST.EXE -clone,MODE=pload,SRC=%CDROM%\MYXP.GHO:1,DST=1:1 -sure
8.Now delete files (CONFIG.SYS ,AUTOEXEC.BAT ) from D:\My_Ghost\ directory,so at
this time you will have just files below in D:\My_Ghost\ directory :
bootimage.ima
ghost.bat
MYXP.GHO
9.Get Ghost.exe (DOS version ) from some where and put it in D:\My_Ghost\ directory.
10.Open UltraISO ,In menue bar go to Bootable and click on "Load boot file".and give
the address of D:\My_Ghost\bootimage.ima as boot file.
11.Now go to "Actions" in menue bar and click on "Add Files".and add files ghost.bat
and MYXP.GHO and Ghost.exe from D:\My_Ghost\ directory.
12.Save ISO file as My_GhostXP.ISO
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Now if you have done all process as i said you will have an ISO file (My_GhostXP.ISO)
that is bootable and will restor your ghost image (MYXP.GHO) from DVD to Drive C: of
Computer.
Some needed Notes:
A)> You can not change the names of files (MYXP.GHO and ghost.bat) ,if you want to use
other names you should edit contents of ghost.bat and AUTOEXEC.BAT files.
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any prompt will begin restoring the ghost image to drive c: of the computer.If You change
the ghost.bat as below ,it will ask your confirmation before begining restoring.
GHOST.EXE -clone,MODE=pload,SRC=%CDROM%\IMAGE.GHO:1,DST=1:1
C)> Some times in some systems,it may not be able to identify CD/DVD ROM.in this times
you should add your system's CD/DVD drivers to bootimage.ima (and edit config.sys too).
D)> First check your iso in virtual machine ,if it was ok then use by real systems.
Edite: I have used tutorial in link below for this tutorial,but made many changes
as you need in that.
http://users.telenet...ghostresq01.htm
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Hope will be some help
shirin zaban