Unable to make bootable usb drive with Norton 2003 or Symantec Ghost corporate edition 8.0

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Hello,

 

I am unable to make a bootable usb drive with Norton 2003 or Symantec Ghost corporate edition 8.0.

When I have installed Symantec ghost corporate edition I start the 'Ghost boot wizzard'.

Then I chose 'Drive mapping boot disk'.

In the last screen of the wizzard there should be an option to chose for a usb drive (as the boottable device in stead of an floppy disk), but I don't have that option.

Is it my version that is the problem?

 

Who can help me?

 

 

 

It is my understanding that Windows itself will not boot from an external USB drive so it doesn't matter what Ghost can do! Unless of course you want to boot to another operating system which will boot that way.

 

You will also probably have to make sure that your BIOS:

 

Supports booting from USB drives -- not all do and some do not show booting from USB as an option unless the bootable device is actually plugged in when you open BISO Setup! I have an Averatec/Pheonix BIOS like that which I discovered when I found I could see the USB drive in the BIOS setup but someone else said it wasn't an option!

 

Is set up to detect the USB drive on booting before it reaches another drive with a bootable system on it -- eg a CD or an internal hard drive.

 

 Hope that helps .... even if it doesn't!

Message Edited by huwyngr on 08-07-2008 06:19 PM
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That version definitely does not support creating a USB drive as a bootable device for Ghost.  You could check on the enterprise forums to see if Ghost Solutions Suite supports this or not. http://forums.symantec.com

 

 

Message Edited by erik_carlstrom on 08-07-2008 01:15 PM