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  • 1.  Ghosting FROM a usb flash drive

    Posted Jul 08, 2010 11:56 AM

    Ok, here's what I'm trying to do. I'd like to be able to boot to a usb thumb drive created by Symantec Ghost Boot Wizard and then ghost a hard drive from an imaged stored of a DIFFERENT usb thum drive. Ghost can make a thumb drive bootable no problem, but it makes it like a 2GB drive. When I boot to this thumb drive I cannot see other USB drives (like a usb external hard drive, thumb/flash drive, etc.)

    If I boot to a ghost CD I can see the USB drive fine and ghost directly from it but can't seem to find what I'm missing to allow me to boot to one usb drive and then pull my image from another one. Anybody ever do this before with any luck?

    Running Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 1.1

    Ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


  • 2.  RE: Ghosting FROM a usb flash drive

    Posted Jul 08, 2010 11:58 AM

    Oops, sorry for all the typos in that post I was rushing. Looks like I can't edit after posting to correct them.....


  • 3.  RE: Ghosting FROM a usb flash drive

    Posted Jul 08, 2010 03:24 PM
    Hello,

    The issue is that you are using PC-DOS, and the USB support within PC-DOS is pretty shoddy. I would recommend booting into a PE environment (either WinPE or BartPE) and using the Ghost32.exe executable. These environments have native USB support, and will work. Your options for this are as follows:

    1. Upgraded to GSS 2.5 and use the Ghost Boot Wizard to create a WinPE-based boot device;
    2. Manually create a WinPE disk and add Ghost32.exe;
    3. Manually create a BartPE CD and add Ghost32.exe.

    I would advise #1, as it is the easiest implementation. 

    Thank you,

    Randy




  • 4.  RE: Ghosting FROM a usb flash drive

    Posted Jul 09, 2010 04:31 AM
    https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/readyadventures-winpe

    Grab a download of WinPE 2.0 (rather than the latest Win 7 version) and crank out your own USB boot solution. Stick Ghost32.exe on there as Randall suggests and you are up and running.

    Incidentally, it is possible to format a USB key with the NTFS file system if you need to support files > 2Gb, but since NTFS is a journaling file system, leaving the key installed for long periods of time is going to use up the read/write cycles on the flash memory eventually.