run norton ghost without built-in floppy drive

[jrefactors]

I am new to Norton Ghost. I just want to backup the existing image of
my machine, and burn it to CD.

In the user guide, it says I should run the ghost in dos command
prompt. Otherwise, I get the following error. The problem is I don't
have built-in floppy drive in my machine. I have external floppy drive,
but it seems cannot boot the USB-based external floppy drive. Any
ideas?


C:\Program Files\Symantec\Ghost>ghost

ABORT: 440, Ghost cannot run on Windows NT.
Please boot your system into Dos and then run Ghost.


Thanks!!

 

[Rod Speed]

I am new to Norton Ghost. I just want to backup the
existing image of my machine, and burn it to CD.

In the user guide, it says I should run the ghost in dos
command prompt. Otherwise, I get the following error.

C:\Program Files\Symantec\Ghost>ghost

ABORT: 440, Ghost cannot run on Windows NT.
Please boot your system into Dos and then run Ghost.

Thats only seen with the older versions of
ghost and the dos executable even with those.

The problem is I don't have built-in floppy drive in my
machine. I have external floppy drive, but it seems cannot
boot the USB-based external floppy drive. Any ideas?

If you can run ghost on a different machine and create
an image file on CD, that CD is bootable and you can
boot it in the machine that doesnt have a floppy.

You can also buy Ghost 2003 for peanuts as part
of SystemWorks Pro 2003 off ebay and that has
the Win executable as well which will do the reboot
to dos for you after you have setup the image job
at the Win level, without needing to use a floppy.

If you're actually using an illegal copy of ghost,
you might as well steal True Image instead, its
a bit easier to use and will make a bootable CD.