Symantec helps consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. How to Create A Bootable Norton Ghost USB Drive If your looking to create a USB drive of Norton Ghost then this video is for you. Create bootable Hiren's Boot CD and add Ghost32.exe - Duration. After a driver we had kept picking up a loop IP address I had to create a ghost boot disk manually. After some tinkering around I figured out how to complete the procress, there's pretty much nothing on the internet on how to do this so I hope it helps!! So, I was thinking it would be easier if I booted the client PC using a Ghost boot disk, ran Ghost on the client & connected to the GhostCast server get the image. But, I'm having a hard time finding out how to create a bootable Ghost CD or USB drive.
I have inherited a mess of at our IT office. The previous guy used GhostCast Server to deploy Ghost images to multiple PCs at once, but I can't get it to work (using 3Com PXE to serve as the host for the PXE boot).So, I was thinking it would be easier if I booted the client PC using a Ghost boot disk, ran Ghost on the client & connected to the GhostCast server get the image. But, I'm having a hard time finding out how to create a bootable Ghost CD or USB drive. Most of the info i found online refers to using 'Ghost Boot Creator' which is not installed on our Ghost server. I don't have the original media for Ghost so, I'm at a loss.
I could just create a DOS or WinPE boot disk & add the files, but which version of DOS or WinPE should I use for that? where can I get the Lenovo NIC drivers (lenovo thinkcentre m81, m82 and m800 desktops and Lenovo t420s, t430s, t440s laptops)?
Does anyone have an ISO for a bootable Ghost disk or know where I can get one? I have Ghost v. 11.0.0.1502 on our GhostCast Server.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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After a driver we had kept picking up a loop IP address I had to create a ghost boot disk manually.
After some tinkering around I figured out how to complete the procress, there's pretty much nothing on the internet on how to do this so I hope it helps!! Phone calls on computer free.
After some tinkering around I figured out how to complete the procress, there's pretty much nothing on the internet on how to do this so I hope it helps!! Phone calls on computer free.
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Ghost Boot Floppy Disk
Step 1: Creating boot disk
Norton Ghost Boot Disk Iso
The steps to create a ghost boot disk manually is as follows:
(please note you have to have the original symantec ghost solution suite installed for this to work and have the applicable ethernet driver folder on your C Drive)
1.Download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) for Windows 7 from the following URL: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5753
2.Burn the WAIK ISO file to a DVD or extract the contents of the image file to a folder.
3.Install Windows Automated Installation Kit using default values. (StartCD.exe if you extracted the files).
4.Open Deployment Tools Command Prompt.
•Start>All Programs>Microsoft Windows AIK>Deployment Tools Command Prompt
5.Mount a Windows PE image.
a.> copype.cmd x86 c:winpe_x86
b.> imagex /mountrw c:winpe_x86winpe.wim 1 c:winpe_x86mount
6.Copy the ghost executables to the image.
a.> copy 'C:Program FilesSymantecGhostgdisk32.exe' C:winpe_x86mountWindowsSystem32
b.> copy 'C:Program FilesSymantecGhostghost32.exe' C:winpe_x86mountWindowsSystem32
c.> copy 'C:Program FilesSymantecGhostGhConfig32.exe' C:winpe_x86mountWindowsSystem32
7.Add NIC drivers to the image. The following example command assume you downloaded the drivers such as Intel, Broadcom, and Realtek and added them to a folder called c:drivers. The Recurse argument will search all subdirectories for all drivers to add.
a.> Dism /Image:c:winpe_x86mount /Add-Driver /Driver:c:drivers /Recurse
(please note you have to have the original symantec ghost solution suite installed for this to work and have the applicable ethernet driver folder on your C Drive)
1.Download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) for Windows 7 from the following URL: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5753
2.Burn the WAIK ISO file to a DVD or extract the contents of the image file to a folder.
3.Install Windows Automated Installation Kit using default values. (StartCD.exe if you extracted the files).
4.Open Deployment Tools Command Prompt.
•Start>All Programs>Microsoft Windows AIK>Deployment Tools Command Prompt
5.Mount a Windows PE image.
a.> copype.cmd x86 c:winpe_x86
b.> imagex /mountrw c:winpe_x86winpe.wim 1 c:winpe_x86mount
6.Copy the ghost executables to the image.
a.> copy 'C:Program FilesSymantecGhostgdisk32.exe' C:winpe_x86mountWindowsSystem32
b.> copy 'C:Program FilesSymantecGhostghost32.exe' C:winpe_x86mountWindowsSystem32
c.> copy 'C:Program FilesSymantecGhostGhConfig32.exe' C:winpe_x86mountWindowsSystem32
7.Add NIC drivers to the image. The following example command assume you downloaded the drivers such as Intel, Broadcom, and Realtek and added them to a folder called c:drivers. The Recurse argument will search all subdirectories for all drivers to add.
a.> Dism /Image:c:winpe_x86mount /Add-Driver /Driver:c:drivers /Recurse
8.Automate the initialization of Ghost as follows:
•Modify the startnet.cmd batch file (C:winpe_x86mountWindowSystem32startnet) with a new line stating 'x:windowssystem32ghost32.exe'
9.Unmount the image.
•> imagex /unmount c:winpe_x86mount /commit
10.Close any windows showing this folder and any programs using these files.
11.Replace the default boot image in ISO with the new customized image.
•> copy c:winpe_x86winpe.wim c:winpe_x86ISOsourcesboot.wim
12.Create an ISO file.
•> oscdimg -n -bc:winpe_x86etfsboot.com c:winpe_x86ISO c:winpe_x86winpe_x86.iso
13. The ISO can now be burned to a CD or DVD as an image to make the CD/DVD bootable.
•Modify the startnet.cmd batch file (C:winpe_x86mountWindowSystem32startnet) with a new line stating 'x:windowssystem32ghost32.exe'
9.Unmount the image.
•> imagex /unmount c:winpe_x86mount /commit
10.Close any windows showing this folder and any programs using these files.
11.Replace the default boot image in ISO with the new customized image.
•> copy c:winpe_x86winpe.wim c:winpe_x86ISOsourcesboot.wim
12.Create an ISO file.
•> oscdimg -n -bc:winpe_x86etfsboot.com c:winpe_x86ISO c:winpe_x86winpe_x86.iso
13. The ISO can now be burned to a CD or DVD as an image to make the CD/DVD bootable.