I followed these instructions from another user to make my usb hard drive able to boot the nortan ghost srd. when i look in windows it acts as though the disk image is mounted but when i boot windows through usb it gives me a disk read error. others have gotten it to work fine. any suggestions?
Searching Google for my "problem" I found this solution to install Windows Vista from a startup USB disk.
Since boot manager of Symantec Recovery Disc is like a Windows Vista CD/DVD I tried this approach with a little changes... and it works!
To create a USB startup disk with SRD follow this steps in a Windows Vista computer:
1. Open a Command Line window (run CMD.EXE) and then execute:
- diskpart
- list disk (to find your USB disk number)
- select disk [number of your USB disk]
- clean
- create partition primary
- select partition 1
- active
- format fs=ntfs
- assign
- exit
2. xcopy [your CD letter with SRD disk]:\*.* /s/e/f [your USB disk letter]:\
After this your USB disk will be bootable and you can use it to:
- recover any previous saved data on this USB disk
- save your recover data from Norton Ghost (using Ghost installed on your system) on any folder you create on it
I hope you appreciate this!