Norton Ghost Bootable Usb
Benedicte Mansukhani
Here in this part, we will tell you how to make Norton Ghost bootable USB in Windows 10/8/7. Although the whole process is kind of complicated, all you need to do is read them through. Or if you prefer an easier way to create bootable USB as well as a free PC backup tool, you can refer to the next part to get it.
To create Norton Ghost bootable USB, first, you should format the USB flash drive to NTFS and then copy the contents of the Norton Ghost recovery disk to the USB. Here we take make Norton Ghost 15 bootable USB as an example.
Insert the recovery CD and copy of its files to the bootable USB flash drive. Or if the recovery disk is an ISO image file, you can mount the ISO with a virtual drive program and then copy the files to the USB driver.
As you can see, the whole process is kind of time-consuming and you may meet some unexpected errors because of improper operation. And do not forget that it only offers you a 30-day free trial version. Why not try one free Norton Ghost alternative? It offers more powerful backup options compared to Norton Ghost and can help you create bootable USB in only a few clicks.
I have a disk image (ghost) of the disk need to be restored, and believe the ghost.exe should run from bootable USB with DOS, but I can't seem to create it. My laptop does not have a a cd-rom or floppy drive.
I managed to find a Ghost utility that I could load from a bootable USB drive. Unfortunately, when I plug in my NTFS external drive (USB), it is not detected.
It allows you to create bootable USB drive easily. And you can also choose to create an ISO image file so you can burn to any removable devices. Besides, the bootable media is possible to boot any version of Windows.
How about give it a try? First download and install it on your computer and then follow the steps below to create bootable USB as well as create image backup. Please remember to backup your USB drive in advance, because it will erase all the data.
Now you have created a bootable USB that can help boot your computer, then you can create system image or other backup types according to your needs. Just choose one backup option and follow the wizard to make it. Besides, you can set scheduled backup to make it auto run daily/weekly/monthly.
Instead of using Ghost, you could use a FOSS alternative such as Clonezilla, g4l, a freeware backup application like the free version of Macrium Reflect, or something like Acronis - which while payware, is really easy, and comes with a bootable backup/restore disk. There's a huge load of applications that'll do what you want, if you're willing to look.
I have Norton ghost 11.5 bootable CD. I am not able to boot Norton ghost 11.5 CD in my IBM x3630 M4 server. But windows server CD boots properly. But other desktop PCs and my old server working properly with that CD. What is the problem? I have checked by changing media,rewriting the CD etc. When i log a call to IBM, they are telling that you may face this type of problems only when that boot media is not supported by the server. Whether it is correct? Why IBM server only not supporting norton ghost?
Today my error got solved. Earlier I was created a bootable USB and then copied all Ghost related files from my ghost bootable CD to that pendrive. It didn't work. But today I created bootable USB, then created an ISO file containing all ghost files in my ghost CD, then copied the same ISO file into my bootable USB. It worked for me fine with iso.
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-------------------------------------- RE: Dual boot XP Pro and Norton Ghost cjcoyle (MIS)(OP)17 Nov 06 17:32First of all, thank you all very much for taking the time to help me out. Rick I really think you have a great setup there and I will implement that as much as I can. I've built a universal ghost boot CD and I use the menuitem option in the config.sys to select the proper network card when ghosting via the network. The testbed pc's are going to be ghosted from the second partition, so I will store and execute the images from the HDD.
The only issue now is, how do I automate the reboot and force ghost to execute?
Thanks guys!
-Chris RE: Dual boot XP Pro and Norton Ghost Rick998 (IS/IT--Management)18 Nov 06 06:49Make sure the Ghost executable is stored in the same partition as the source image file then add a menuitem to the CD's boot menu to change to the partition.
Remember that if the first partition has been formatted as NTFS then any DOS boot CD won't recognise the partition. As a result the CD menuitem will have to change to C:.
If, however, both partitions have been formatted as FAT32 then the CD menuitem will need to change to D: then run the Ghost executable with the following switches:
CODEghost -clone,mode=pload,src=d:\fixdrive.gho:1,dst=1:1 -rb -sure
This will avoid you having to include this in a 'fixme.bat' file. Alternatively, include a 'fixme.bat' file in the second partition and change the CD menuitem to point to the second partition and run the batch file.
The Ghost switches mean:
-clone,mode=pload = load partition from image file
src=d:\fixdrive.gho:1 = use first partition in an image file called 'fixdrive.gho' stored in root of D: as the source image file
dst=1:1 = use partition 1 of disk 1 as the destination
-rb = reboot automatically afterwards
-sure = don't ask for confirmation, just do it.
Again, you will have to adjust the 'src=' switch for the location of the source file from D: to C: depending on whether the DOS boot CD recognises the partition.
Note that you will can eject the CD as soon as Ghost starts, otherwise when you come back the PC may be sat waiting at the CD boot menu again.
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Also, could you elaborate what is the steps after booting from a bootable CD created from Nortion Ghost? How does that apply to my situation for restore my hard drive in case of the primary drive failure?
Also, could you elaborate what is the steps after booting from a
bootable CD created from Nortion Ghost? How does that apply to my
situation for restore my hard drive in case of the primary drive
failure?
Alex_Ewrote:
Cloning a bootable HDD to anothe bootable HDD, when both are
connected to the same computer is quite safe.
If you have a backup cloned copy of your primary HDD on your
external drive and want to clone it back to the primary, simply
either replace or reformat the primary drive and then using Norton
Ghost boot disk clone the external HDD to the new or re-fomatted
primary HDD.
Ghost image backups are very handy for doing regular backups of a
smaller HDD to a large HDD, as a number of backups can be fitted on
one drive, with the oldest being deleted to allow for the newest
backup when required, to ensure a backup history is maintained.
The ideal situation, in my opinion, is to also maintain two
identical primary HDD's, with regular cloned backups, then if the
primary one in the computer fails, it can be physically replaced
with the spare, with guaranted success and minimal downtime.
In my case I use a removal drive cage (very cheap to buy) and can
slip the spare drive in and out whenever needed. I'm amazed at the
number of people who buy expensive external HDD setups instead of
using the very cheap and effective method of having as many
external HDD's as they like, as extra slip out cases can be
purchased, with a single internal cage.
The older removable drive cages required a computer re-boot but
there are models now that allow hot swapping.
There is one reason at least: when the boot CD/floppy doesn't recognize the external/USB/Firewire drive. This is exactly my case. I have the original norton ghost boot CD but unfortunately it just recognize the drive on which i have several partitions C:, D:, ... So i backup my system C: on the other partition D: but the problem is when i have a hardware problem on this drive, i'll also lose my image backup which is on D: on the SAME drive!
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