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However doing it yourself is trivial, and I do recommend using Ghost, Acronis or CloneZilla (or any other free program) to take a image from that cleanly installed computer. Tape a bootable CD to the inside of their case (just for starting the restore program. Even a floppy disk with ghost.exe would do). Store the image either on a DVD (warning 4GB limit!) or on a small FAT partition on the harddisk. Do not mount that partition. If you use windows go to drive management and remove the assigned drive letter. That way you have a local backup, a big enough volume on which you can store it and a ready CD or pendrive to start the restore program.
After completing Step 2 in the 2nd linkin the "mount\windows\system32" folderopen the startnet.cmd file and add this after wpeinit(The command below restores the image)imagex /apply d:\goodos.wim 1 c:\
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.
Even in this case, I wonder if ghost will find my hard disk partitions. Perhaps if I manage to make a bootable USB with some Win installation, that automatically allows the OS to recognize the HD partitions.
EDIT - PS: I found How can I run Ghost from a bootable USB key drive? . I tried the Hiren's way (as pointed out by ubiquibacon). It successfully booted and opened Ghost in the Win 8 PC. But in the Win 10 PC it started booting and expanding programs to the ramdrive R:, where it hangs.
* All sources that I found pointed to methods requiring the installation CDs (e.g., this). It is worth noting that I only need to be able to boot. Many pages warn that I would not be able to make a bootable USB out of a preinstalled Win PC, since the preinstalled Win is intended only for one PC. The argument would not apply, since I only want a bootable USB, not a boot+WinInstall USB.
I still use ghost myself, and have been in this same situation. I suggest using YUMI to create bootable Flashdrive, and download Hirens BCD or FalconFour BCD. From there boot into either. Doing this will allow you to boot into a limited version of Windows XP from there browse to the flash drive you have Ghost installed on and Run the .exe.
Regards, I have Ghost v12.xx and with Windows 7 if you run Windows Shadow copy service, you can "hot image" running systems. I use it on Windows 10 and 7. Tried hiren which works too, tried USB dos boot with modern drivers and got snow crash (kernel panicked). Using hot image technique is painless. I use grub4usb to make USB bootable.
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.
Hi guys, new guy here...I work for IT at a university and we're imaging lots of incoming desktops for staff and faculty. We installed 1 main copy of Win 7 with our software and updates, then uploaded it to our ghosting machin via GhostCast Server. Then, we pull that image down using GhostCast Server to our other machines that need the image (for now imaging older Dell Optiplex 320's, but models will change as new machines roll in). The problem is, we get this error when we boot the newly imaged computers up for the first time:
I'm not clear what you mean when you say you can remove the system partition before install by repartitioning the drive. Do you mean prior to ghosting or prior to installing Win 7 from DVD ? My experience is that even with a blank unformatted disk, the Win 7 install still creates two partitions.
It may an anti-piracy thing. But it seems a bit drastic to block simple re-imaging, that's more Adobe's cup of tea rather than Microsoft's. Also, running startup recovery doesn't require any key reentry. And for your peace of mind, so you know I am not trying to swindle MS. We have a large volume of identical machines, all with valid Win7 licenses, that we send out in the field on temporary assignments. When they are returned, we must wipe them for security reasons. So ghost has provided an easy solution.
I haven't tried any of the solutions proposed in this thread because I've been using ghost for around 10 years and I've never had to modify Windows or the boot disk in anyway, just ghost the image to the server then ghost it back to the PC.
Spent nearly 3 hours with Symantec tech support and here's what we did.
On my T410, I installed all the software I needed. Then ran sysprep.exe from c:\windows\system32\sysprep.
Select Out of the Box Experience and Shutdown. Do not click Generalize.
1) I use Ghost Solution suite 2.5 with all the updates. On the Ghost Suite Server, install MSXML 6 from Microsoft ( =993C0BCF-3BCF-4009-BE21-27E85E1857B1&displaylang=en). It is needed to install additional driver.
2) On the server, launch the Ghost Boot Wizard
3) Select Windows PE and click Edit
4) Select WinPE (not WinPE-512), click Edit if you want to add the driver for your network adapter. Deselect the driver you don't need. You have to use the 32 bits driver for Vista (NDIS 6.1 I believe). Give it a name/description. No need of network driver if you Ghost from disk to disk, the T410 DVD drive can be removed and replaced by a second HDD.
5) Click the Storage tab and add the driver for your computer hard disk drive controller. This will increase read/write speed. For my Lenovo T410, I use the Intel 82801 Sata Raid (included with GSS 2.5). If your computer use an Intel chipset it should be fairly easy. Remember to use a Vista 32 bits driver.
6) Click OK when you're done with the drivers
7) Back to the Windows PE Editor, click OK
8) Back to the Ghost Boot Wizard screen, click Next
9) Select Standard Ghost Boot Disk and click Next
10) On the Symantec Ghost Boot Wizard - Client type screen, I had to add -ib (specific to Lenovo) and -fdsp (all machine) in Parameters. If you use a PC DOS boot disk, you can manually add the switch when you launch Ghost but PC DOS will be extremely slow when you have to ghost 500GB hard drive
11) Click Next. Leave all settings empty and click Next
12) Select DHCP will assign the IP settings
13) On the Destination drive screen, you should see your USB flash drive. You might want to burn a CD/DVD if your laptop/desktop can't boot from a flash drive. If you don't see it then click the Refresh button. I use FAT on a 1GB flash drive. Click Next, skip the Additional Files screen by clicking Next and click Next on the Review screen.
14) It's going to take a few minutes to create the bootable flash drive. Click Finish when it's done.
There are advanced, command line switches you can use in your implementations for different things like using more or less than the default 3 compression types, stating -sure so you don't get prompted to state that you're sure, -rb will reboot the machine after ghosting, etc., etc., etc.
I used the modified Info.plist-trick to create a bootable Windows 8 USB-drive and create a Bootcamp partition. After this was done, I tried to install Windows, but I ran into the problem of Windows not accepting the pre-made partition, so I deleted it and rebooted once again into the Windows installer to install it.
After this, it froze, so I held the power button down until it restarted. I couldn't boot from the newly created (hard drive) "EFI boot" section, so I booted the Recovery and tried to delete the two new partitions (the windows and the "Microsoft reserved" one). But it wouldn't let me delete the 130MB partition named disk0s4. Even from Internet recovery, I couldn't get rid of it.
You have successfully removed all windows partitions from your disk, but you have not yet removed all files added during your attempt to install windows. What is left are files in your EFI partition. The ghost is being caused by the file efi/boot/bootx64.efi stored in the EFI partition.
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