Ghost Solution Suite

is it possible to store ghost client and windows xp image on a 4G flash drive, so you could boot from it into the client and restore the xp image also store in the same drive?

thanks in advance

Message Edited by Jorge Vazquez on 08-05-200702:29 AM

Yes you can but you'll need to use some other 3rd party USB formatting tool (for instance HP provides free tool for download) rather than using Ghost boot wizard. However things to note that most BIOSes provides imcompatible sector translation for FAT32 USB hence why ghost takes safe approach and formats only as FAT16 (2GB) and uses own sector translation code to manage BIOSes incompatibilities.
In other words - format USB on a compatible machine and test by booting to that USB before you wipe your machine clean :)

I was doing this until our upper headquarters made the use of USB Devices taboo and I started having problems with getting my image small enough to fit on a 4 GB stick.

The HP program worked great for setting up the flash drive. Take a look at this web site for usb drive set up   " http://www.netbootdisk.com/usb_boot.htm "  ==>  Specifically the article  Berry ten Caat's guide

One other thing that is critical - make sure that you change the destination drive in your ghost command line to drive 2 rather than drive 1 ==>dst=2   If you don't - you can end up ghosting the USB drive rather than the hard drive that you are trying to ghost..

Mikeee  :smileywink:

Hi Mike,

That's the program I was thinking about. However it may not work on 100000s of other computers out there and hence why Ghost took the safest approach. We may provide translation code for FAT32 in the next release though.

As to the drive enumeration. It is quite hard to say what drive will come first in the list. Generally IDE first, followed by SATA, followed by the rest. It is hard to say, one will need to experiment and if USB always comes out first on our machine - that's great. My dev machine has USB always enumerated last - mind you I'd running ghost under XP.

Good luck!