I'm trying to create a bootable USB Hard Drive that I can use to wipe the local fixed disks and then install one of three ghost images stored on that USB HD. This is an automated process started by a config.sys menu that I created which lets you pick the specific image you need to install on that system. The script then boots, wipes all hard drives and installs that image without stopping or taking input from the user. I used the HP format utility to copy system files from a win98 bootdisk to make the USBHD bootable.
[EDIT]Minor detail! As you can imagine 3 full system images weighs in at 9.5 gigs, so most of the strategies of booting with 512Mb flash drives are out because I can't format in FAT(16) which seems to be a requirement of some of these programs.
The problems i ran into with this were: I have to wipe ALL hard drives in the system and since the USB HD was showing up as C: and a hard drive, it tries and succeeds in wiping itself
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Also, Ghost wants to copy the image to C: and make that the booting drive, but since I'm running Ghost from C: AND trying to copy the image to C:, it blows up.
So, now my questions. I've been thinking that if i could get the USB HD to boot up as any other letter than C:, i could at least get ghost to work properly. I could specify in the Wiping program to only wipe the primary Hard Drive, which isnt optimal, but those two together could solve my problems.
What would be optimal is to not only boot as something other than C: but to also make the USB HD look like a removable disk or a floppy so that the wiping program doesnt pay any attention to it (but would also wipe any secondary HDs in the system)
So, my question to you all is, is this possible? By the way, i tried out WinBuilder today to see if that would help and i think the file is corrupted. I get blank (white) pages in every pane of the application (Scripts, Web, etc) The tutorial screenshots don't look anything like what i'm seeing.
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