Ghost Solution Suite

Hi there,

I want to create an image of a T420 and restore it to a T440 so I need to use a bootable USB. I am also using version 11.5.1 of Ghost.

I when I created a PC-DOS bootable drive I was easily able to add the right network drivers as a template and connect the computers to create an image. The problem is I don't think it worked correctly as the file size is 2,295KB which seems, well, wrong. So when I try to restore the small image to the T440, nothing happens. Ghost says the restore is complete but the T440 hasn't changed, as in the restore did nothing.

I attempted making a WinPE bootable device but I'm getting an error about the network drivers.. which I did add in the last step of the wizard. I don't see much difference between the two (winPE and PC-DOS) and I'm getting farther with the latter so might as well fixed what I missed with that one.

Any suggestions?

Does the machine you are imaging have a SATA hard disk?  If so, are you setting the hard disk to legacy mode in the bios as PCDOS does not recognise hard disks.

What operating system are you imaging?  If Win 7 then there are two partitions you need to image.

If you are creating a WinPE boot environment from your version of Ghost Solution Suite then you need to add VISTA 32 bit drivers regardless of what operating system you image as WinPE in GSS is based on the Vista kernel.  You will need to add drivers for both the NIC and the SATA chipsets and then make sure the drivers are selected before you create a new boot image.

The following tech notes may help:

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH110134.html

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/do-i-have-correct-driver-winpe

Frankly, PCDOS is a PITA when it comes to modern hardware so WinPE is really the way to go.