Norton Ghost and booting from USB

[Jack]

Hi I have 3 machines. 2 XP pro and 1 2003 server. I need to ghost all
these three machines. Now I know that I can't ghost these machines
while there are still running windows so I have to some how boot them
into dos (no floppy) and run ghost then. I tried this with 4 four
different CDs but for some reason the network card driver doesn't work
in DOS.

So my question is, is there a way to put dos images into a usb chip and
boot from the USB chip?

Thanks

J

 

[Malke]

Hi I have 3 machines. 2 XP pro and 1 2003 server. I need to ghost all
these three machines. Now I know that I can't ghost these machines
while there are still running windows so I have to some how boot them
into dos (no floppy) and run ghost then. I tried this with 4 four
different CDs but for some reason the network card driver doesn't work
in DOS.

So my question is, is there a way to put dos images into a usb chip
and boot from the USB chip?

You need to put the network drivers onto the bootable cd or floppy.
Contact the tech support for whatever program you're using to make the
images (Symantec for Ghost, Acronis for True Image, etc.) to find out
how to do this. If you are using an imaging program that needs to boot
from floppy (older versions of Ghost do, for instance) then you simply
purchase a usb floppy drive.

Malke