> You don't need drivers for that. As Dave mentioned, why do you need a custom recovery disk?
The network drive has the backups. If windows fails a Ghost disk needs booting up. The vista PC will need it's network card running in order to access the network drive, I'm trying to create a disk that will boot up and access the network as simply as possible.
That would be easier than troubleshooting the ISO creation problem on the Vista system.
Either way, you would need the Vista 32bit network drivers in a non-exe format. You need the .inf, .sys, and .cat files in a folder some place.
So you could put those files on the other system and build the custom disk. When you get to the driver part of building the custom disk, delete every driver present and then add the Vista network driver. When you get to the screen to enter the serial number you can enter the serial number of the other version of Ghost.
The only drivers you really need in the recovery enviroment are the hard drive controllers and network adapter. I'm pretty sure the included hard drive controllers will work fine.
> You don't need drivers for that. As Dave mentioned, why do you need a custom recovery disk?
The network drive has the backups. If windows fails a Ghost disk needs booting up. The vista PC will need it's network card running in order to access the network drive, I'm trying to create a disk that will boot up and access the network as simply as possible.
Cheers and thanks :)
p.s. The CAPTCHA here is driving me looney :)
Sorry, I didn't see this post.
Brian is correct and thats what I was getting at. You don't need to add any drivers unless they were not included in the Vista setup because the recovery disk is built on Vista SP1 32bit.
You might want to try the original unmodified recovery disk first and see if it works.
I'm trying to create a disk that will boot up and access the network as simply as possible.
Alex,
There is a good chance the NIC drivers are already on the standard Ghost CD. I'm afraid accessing the network isn't simple...
Boot from Ghost 15 CD click on the time and adjust zone click Network Start my Networking Services Map a Network Drive accept Z: don't click Browse type in your \\remotecomputername\share (the folder must have been previously Shared) ((Can use \\IP address instead of \\remotecomputername. Can use \D$ instead of \share) username and password You will see this error ("A specified login session does not exist. It may already have been terminated." ) click OK and then click Connect using a different username and password. Then enter your same username and password you should see Successfully mapped network drive ((If you want to create more mapped network drives you won't be asked for username/password again)) on main screen click Recover Recover My Computer you will probably get a message about no recovery points in the View by.. select Filename click Browse double click Computer scroll down to Network location double click Z: etc
> You might want to try the original unmodified recovery disk first and see if it works.
Gotcha. I'll try this thanks.
> I'm afraid accessing the network isn't simple...
Yup indeed I've had that experience with other Windows 7 PC's and Ghost, that's something Norton needs to work on. Doesn't seem to be able to browse a bog standard network either (you must give a direct file path).
NAlexS wrote:, that's something Norton needs to work on. Doesn't seem to be able to browse a bog standard network either (you must give a direct file path).
I don't think it is Norton. It is the VistaPE. Win7PE is similar but with a Win7PE you don't need to enter username and password twice.