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[icwright]

Question about winbuilder XP based projects and ghost 8

hello, this is my first post.
I have been playing with Winbuilder for about 3 months, BartPe for a few years and UBCD4Win for a year or so. I mainly use a SDI(compressed) booted, reduced down BartPe with Freecommander, SCDWriter and Ghost 8. By trial and error I have found the extra files needed for any programs that I have used. This functions perfectly for me. I use Ghost 8 alot as a backup/restore strategy.

I have been playing with winbuilder and am very impressed with the project. I especially like the desktop icons, explorer, usb drivers and ease of building/testing. All this from 1 program, previously I have had to build my "BartPe" in many stages.

With Winbuilder I can make PE's that meet most of my needs except for ghost 8. I can get basic ghost functions to work. I have modified the GHOST and ASPI plugin from Bart/UBCD. ASPICHECK says aspi is installed(although I think it just checks for files not a functioning aspi layer). I have use several builds of winbuilder, LiveXP NativePE and variations of aspi/ghost scripts. Ghost 8 needs a functioning aspi layer to burn to cd.

My quest is to have a fully functioning ghost 8 on a winbuilder pe. I need to find a way to get a ASPI layer that functions for GHOST 8. Any help would be appreciated. I realise other imaging programs exist but I do not wish to use anything else.

Alternatively could I load my reduced bartpe into winbuilder and "skip(modify)" the build stage. This way I have a tested base PE that has my basic requirements and add extra from winbuilder to it. I have tried this but have not been successful. Any ideas if this is a way around my problem would also be helpful.

thanks

[amalux]

icwright

I know this is old; I just came across your post. Let me know if you still need help on this and I'll get you set up

[phox]

My quest is to have a fully functioning ghost 8 on a winbuilder pe. I need to find a way to get a ASPI layer that functions for GHOST 8. Any help would be appreciated. I realise other imaging programs exist but I do not wish to use anything else.

Try this:  Ghost.zip   1.04KB   1214 downloads

In addition you just need Ghost.exe file in folder: "Program Files\BackUp\Ghost".
If you UPX it, it will come down to just 750.5 KB.

[amalux]

Try this:  Ghost.zip   1.04KB   1214 downloads

In addition you just need Ghost.exe file in folder: "Program Files\BackUp\Ghost".
If you UPX it, it will come down to just 750.5 KB.

Hi Phox,

Couple things, Icwright wants to be able to burn CD/DVD's from Ghost...

I can make PE's that meet most of my needs except for ghost 8. I can get basic ghost functions to work. I have modified the GHOST and ASPI plugin from Bart/UBCD. ASPICHECK says aspi is installed(although I think it just checks for files not a functioning aspi layer). I have use several builds of winbuilder, LiveXP NativePE and variations of aspi/ghost scripts. Ghost 8 needs a functioning aspi layer to burn to cd.
My quest is to have a fully functioning ghost 8 on a winbuilder pe. I need to find a way to get a ASPI layer that functions for GHOST 8.

The only way to achive that is to encode some additional files into the script, aspi32.sy_ (Adaptec); re-badged, wnaspi32.dll (Frog ASPI) and ghostcdr.dll (Symantec, from the Ghost install). Otherwise you end up with this...

Needless to say, seeing the reference guide doesn't help

Also, your script calls for 'ghost.exe'; this is the name given for the 16bit DOS version in Ghost 8 (the one Icwright referred to in his question) If this was your intention then I don't see how it would work for him; you probably meant 'Ghost32.exe' instead, this could be confusing as there is no version called in your script. Hope this helps