Run the diskpart command line app as admin * list disk to find the drive number of your usb stick. * select disk # to select the usb disk (put the number you found in the previous step in place of the # - be absolutely certain you have the right number!) * clean * create partition primary * select partition 1 * active * format fs=ntfs * assign * exit Insert your Windows Vista / 7 DVD into your drive Change directory to the DVD's boot directory where bootsect lives: cd :\boot Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7 image. I'm assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk G:\ by the computer: bootsect /nt60 g:
I just saw this post when you posted a link in another thread.
Well done, but I agree with Brian. You don't need to format it in NTFS, it gives no advantage and might even be a little slower because of the file system overhead.
I would also use: format fs=fat32 quick
He is also correct you don't need to add a bootsector, Vista or Windows 7 already adds a nt60 bootsector.
nt60 boot sector boots "bootmgr" (Vista\7)
nt52 boot sector boots ntldr (XP/2000)
DOS boot sector boots IO.sys
Only time you need to add a nt60 boot sector is if your making the bootable flash drive in XP.
I've been playing with Grub4 DOS lately and booting ISO files from a USB flash drive. I've been able to put most of my bootable flash drives onto a single flash drive. But I can't get the Ghost 15 ISO to work. Have you had any success?
I got so many old dos tools and programs, and other things, I didn't want to dedicate the whole flash drive to just Ghost.
it's actually not a flash drive, on my EEE I have a 16GB SDHC card that I leave in all the time. It has the grub bootloader and I can start the Ghost ISO from it.
I can't remember exactly. I think it starts to load and then fails.
Strange that it works on some computers and not others. I have a few ISOs on my Grub4DOS stick that load on some computers and not others. Now that I know you can do it I'll try again.
Let me try to rephase that since I'm a linux idiot.
My card or flash drive has uses grub, it boots to grub and from there I can boot the Ghost ISO.
If that makes a difference, I'm not booting DOS and then using grub4dos to boot the ISO, I had some problem doing that although I can't remember if it was with Ghost or something else I wanted to boot.
I'm pretty sure it's the regular old syslinux and grub.
I don't have it here so I can't look at the menu.lst but I'm pretty sure it is just like the example shown:
# title Test ISO # find –set-root /testname.iso # map /testname.iso (hd32) # map –hook # root (hd32) # chainloader (hd32)
I don't think I'm using "boot" either.
I could never get it to work well mapping it into memory, It worked so slow I might die of old age before it loaded all the way.
Only problem I had was getting the file contiguous because it can't be fragmented, but I used that program "wincontig" from that site or another time I just defragged it and copied it again.
I only tried it so far on that one system, so I don't know if it will work on others, interesting how you found that out.
There is also a way, (but I can't remember) that you can type in each line one at a time and push "enter" and then grub tells you whats going on and confirms what it did. I tried that to find another problem and although it didn't help me it may tell you what the error is.
edit- strange, my dashes didn't come out right, should be 2 before set and hook.
Run the diskpart command line app as admin * list disk to find the drive number of your usb stick. * select disk # to select the usb disk (put the number you found in the previous step in place of the # - be absolutely certain you have the right number!) * clean * create partition primary * select partition 1 * active * format fs=ntfs * assign * exit Insert your Windows Vista / 7 DVD into your drive Change directory to the DVD's boot directory where bootsect lives: cd :\boot Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7 image. I'm assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk G:\ by the computer: bootsect /nt60 g:
I think you just need to add your RAID drivers. If Ghost is installed on that system you can try building a custom restore disk and saving that as another ISO.
Or you can find the driver files and manually add them to the restore disk. Regardless of what your running, the Ghost restore disk is 32bit so you need to find 32bit Vista or XP drivers. (XP drivers seem to work better for me).
You can't use any .exe driver installation, you need the files .sys, .inf, and .cat
These files may be availible from the motherboard site to be used as a "floppy disk" used during the installation of XP.
If you need any help post a link to the motherboard or give us the make and model.
