ghost to USB drive

[Aloke Prasad]

Actually, my experience was different regarding guest using floppy
disks. As I mentioned above, on the one older machine with USB 1.1,
guest did assign a drive letter, and if I disabled guest, ghost
wouldn't find my USB drive.

A few things to note:

The drivers for USB 1.1 controllers are different. My listings had been for
USB 2 controller.

According to Symantec e-mail, the USB drive should be connected directly to
the PC/controller card, without any hubs etc. All extra USB devices (other
than the hard disk) should be disconnected when the PC is booted up and
GHOST run.

Other things that don't affect the issue: the drives should be checked for
errors (CHKDSK) and defragged before imaging.

 

[Valerio Vanni]

Hello. Back to this topic, it appears to be more complicated than that,
as I have learned in the interval. It appears that the Ghost 2003
floppy will behave differently on different machines. As follows, using
the same floppy and the same external USB drive formatted with FAT32.

I just found a strange thing on this matter (Ghost on USB).

I booted with an updated ghost 2003 floppy the following machine

IDE Pri-MA: hard disk
IDE Pri-SL: hard disk
IDE Sec-MA: hard disk
IDE Sec-SL: cd-rom

USB 2.0 enclosure: hard disk

Ghost saw only 3 disks, in detail

IDE Pri-MA and IDE Sec-MA were in their place (disk 1 and disk 3),
while Pri-SL (disk 2) was invisible, since it had been replaced with
the external one.
It didn't matter, since I had only to clone from Pri-MA to external,
but I'd like to understand what are the reasons of such a thing.