Hello all,
I’m looking to create a Ghost image of a PC to an external USB hard drive. Basically I’ve created a Ghost DOS boot disk w/ USB support using Ghost 7.5 and with help from a few Google searches. My understanding is USB is not supported in DOS but there are a few ways people are getting USB devices to work w/ DOS. I’m hoping someone has this working and can assist.
My attempt below is getting much further than other DOS boot disk w/ USB drivers Ive tried and I’m very close to getting this working.
Issue is – Drive letter I specify is not assigned therefore Ghost does not see the drive to dump the image. There are no DOS or Ghost error messages. A step by step confirmation on bootup seems to indicate this DOS boot disk is working to recognize the USB port, my Seagate FreeAgent drive (or SanDisk thumb drive), but the drive letter I specify is not assigned.
I’d appreciate any help or suggestions to solve this so I can image to an ext drive.
Thanks !
s/w – Ghost 7.5
h/w – Dell Inspiron 530 , Seagate 320GB USB ext drive , (also tried SanDisk Cruser thumb drive)
I have added some basic files to the Ghost boot disk. Here are the files on the disk:
IO.SYS MSDOS.SYS COMMAND.COM CONFIG.SYS AUTOEXEC.BAT MOUSE.COM MOUSE.INI ASPIEHCI.SYS GHOST.EXE
Below are some file contents:
CONFIG.SYS –
DEVICE = aspiehci.sys /int /all
lastdrive = z
AUTOEXEC.BAT –
@echo off
MOUSE.COM
set tz=gho+08:00
cd ghost
echo loading …
ghost.exe