external drive

[BINZA@]

I am just wondering if xp will enable you to do the same as you could in
win98 os which is go to command prompt and type sys e: E being my external
hard drive that has an fat32 partition. however xp does not support sys
command. What i am trying to achieve is my external drive has ghost and some
ghost images on and i need to clone some machines but only have an xp laptop
avaliable at present . Question is how to use xp to make ext drive bootable
to run ghost.

Thanks for any help with this.

 

[Uwe Sieber]

I am just wondering if xp will enable you to do the same as you could in
win98 os which is go to command prompt and type sys e: E being my external
hard drive that has an fat32 partition. however xp does not support sys
command. What i am trying to achieve is my external drive has ghost and some
ghost images on and i need to clone some machines but only have an xp laptop
avaliable at present . Question is how to use xp to make ext drive bootable
to run ghost.

You could try the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool:
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html

You need a bootable floppy which the tool can grab
the DOS boot files from.


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

 

[BINZA@]

Yes but does not xp enable you to make external devices bootable as win98
did??

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Yes but does not xp enable you to make external devices bootable as win98
did??

No, XP can only make floppy disks bootable.

 

[Bob I]

You BIOS would have to be set to boot from the USB, and then you may be
able to boot your CD.

 

[Anna]

BINZA:
With the Ghost 2003 version you can create a Ghost bootable floppy disk or
Ghost bootable CD (from the created floppy disk) and use that media to clone
the contents of one HD to another HD. Would that serve your purpose?
Anna

 

[Plato]

You BIOS would have to be set to boot from the USB, and then you may be
able to boot your CD.

Assuming the bios even has that option. I have a new, "test", pc that
can boot from "removable", defined as "floppy", or cd, or hard drive,
But no "boot" from USB.

 

[Bob I]

Yep, if the BIOS doesn't support booting from USB, you obviously can't
set it to boot from USB, but then OP should be able to make that logic
connection.

 

[Darrell S]

Your Ghost CD should be bootable. Boot to it and you can accomplish what
you wish. I have DriveImage 7.0 and use it to "ghost" my C: drive to an
external USB hard drive. I have found I can boot to my DI CD and access my
USB hard drive from it. That's how I intend to recover my hard drive if it
becomes necessary and I'm not able to boot to C:.