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  • 1.  creating a USB pen drive as a ghost boot up disk

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 05:39 AM
    Hi, I'm new around here so please be gentle !
     
    I have created bootable floppy disk using Ghost Boot Wizard but my colleagues are pestering me to give them USB pen drives that boot up in the same way.
     
    When I try to create the pen drive using Ghost Boot Wizard everything looks good - it sees my Disgo 5.02 device - and then I click next and Ghost Boot Wizard closes and nothing else happens !
     
    Any advise on what is happening ?
     
    thanks


  • 2.  RE: creating a USB pen drive as a ghost boot up disk

    Posted Apr 12, 2007 03:10 AM
    Hi,
     
    This sounds like an issue we have fixed lately.
     
    What version of Ghost do you use? In what OS do you run Ghost Boot Wizard?
     
    Krish
     


  • 3.  RE: creating a USB pen drive as a ghost boot up disk

    Posted Apr 12, 2007 05:06 AM
    Well, it might be a little different to the one I fixed; what I found was when adding FAT32 support to the Boot Wizard and I was testing it on my notebook with an SD card reader and an SD card inserted, the Boot Wizard would fail.

    There were actually two problems: one was when enumerating the available drives, it asked for the manufacturer ID of the disk and since the SD card driver didn't supply one, the boot wizard failed and quit. The other problem was that after I resolved the first issue, I tried using the Boot Wizard to format the SD card and that failed due to a different operation the SD-card driver didn't support.

    Now, if you got to actually select the USB device you wanted to format then it might not be exactly the same issue I saw, but it might be related. Something that's definitely worth checking is what drivers are being used by the particular storage device you have inserted (there will probably be two; a bus-type device that deals just with the USB host controller, and a mass-storage device driver to deal with the memory stick itself - the latter is the one that is probably most significant).