I'm actually quite ashamed to ask this.

[Otumeel]

I've got this litte program Norton Ghost 2003 on a bootable CD (it works brilliantly) that I've used for many years to copy the contents of one harddrive to another.

How can I get that program onto a Flashdrive and make it bootable?

 

[orin76]

There's nothing shaming about that question. Too bad I can't help you though.

 

[JIMMYtheSKULL]

i think there is a util available from hp for free that makes flash drives bootable, i would google for you if only google worked. FIX SEACOM NOOOOOOOW!!!!!

 

[Park@82]

http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

This is similar to the HP format until: http://www.mediafire.com/?gnn4kd2uwm5 but you would still need the boot files.

 

[ttygt]

I used to use Ghost (bought the original double cd's), but found HD Clone later, and has been using it ever since.

The latest version can even copy a OS drive from within the live OS (ie. windows 7), making perfect bootable copies.
You can create the bootable files to CD/DVD/Flashdrive, from within the HDClone exe file, with no other files needed.

Other thing, usb is supported, ie. cloning a sata/ide drive to a usb connected drive - vely vely nice.

They have a free version, with limited capability, I use the pro version.

http://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html

Try it........

 

[phiber]

I dunno why you are ashamed to ask this, its not the easiest task!

 

[Otumeel]

It's bloody difficult.

I don't understand the HP tool.

Basically my situation goes like this:
I've got a couple of empty PCs and a hardrive with all the software installed and configured perfectly (drivers, everything).

I've got a flash drive.

I've got Norton ghost 2003.

What do I do with these 3. Step by step please. Assume I'm a retard ... because I feel like one.

 

[MickZA]

Try this site http://wiki.fdos.org/Installation/BootDiskCreateUSB - lots of ways to create a bootable flash drive.

 

[ponder]

I've also sukkeled my gat off trying to create bootable USB images in Windows with the utils listed here.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Ghost 2003 still run on top of DOS, right?

 

[Otumeel]

Ghost 2003 still run on top of DOS, right?

yes

 

[Park@82]

It shouldn't be that hard, I do it all the time. Just download http://www.mediafire.com/?gnn4kd2uwm5 (run as admin on win7) then download some dos based bootable image/disk > put a tick in at make DOS bootable disk > browse to your DOS boobable mounted image/cd/floppy. Click start. then copy the dos compatible ghost.exe to the drive.

The files I use are:
ANSI.SYS
CHOICE.COM
COMMAND.COM
EMM386.EXE
filelist.txt
HIMEM.SYS
MSCDEX.EXE
OAKCDROM.SYS
RAMDRIVE.SYS
(some hidden)