Mar 3, 2018 - This document describes how to create a bootable CD/DVD that also restores the Ghost image to the computer. Before you begin.

I want to create Norton Ghost bootable Disk that upon booting display a small menu like this.eg:- - press 1 to backup c: to d: (ghost should auto load & make the complete disk image of c: and store in D: ) - press 2 to restore the image From d: to c: (ghost should auto load & Restore the image file back to c: from d: helpful in restoring c: partition in case of corrupt OS ) It is helpful for simply Backup & restore Pc's. Can some one please advice me in this regard of creating bootable disk with the above menu for Nghost 2003 or 11.5 version. It would be fairly easy to make such a disk for a one time backup and then later be able to restore it. But to try to use it on an ongoing basis would be a lot more difficult because the name of the image would be static on the CD. That would take an extensive batch file to be renaming images on the system, or it would take another task running on the system once in a while to rename old images before the new one was made. It doesn't sound very productive to spend hours writing and testing batch files in order to save a couple minutes each use. Thats what I would do too, move or rename the existing image out of the way and then create the new image that always starts out with the same name.

The restore would be set to use that same image name of the most recent backup. Then before each new image run something like if exist del image4.gho if exist ren image3.gho image4.gho if exist ren image2.gho image3.gho if exist ren image.gho image2.gho (insert ghost image creation line here) But that housekeeping task would really need to be done in windows, and thats why I said it would be a seperate task running in windows or it's going to be a rather extensive task if your running it all off just the CD. Trying to do it all from the CD, you would run into other problems especially because DOS couldn't access NTFS. You would either have to us FAT32 and anticipate how many file segments get made per image or account for all possible outcomes with a whole lot of 'if exist' lines.

Although FAT32 supports 4GB files, DOS is 16bits and the file segments are only going to be 2GB each if I rememeber correctly. Otherwise possibly use NTFS for DOS and clear out the space for the new image and then unload that driver and start ghost after a short pause.

(I would never trust a third party driver in between ghost and the file system). Either way, tring to do the whole thing from a bootable CD seems like a lot of work for not much time saving. Not saying I wouldn't be tempted to do it just for fun. Hi dave, sir, you misunderstood my concept! See i work in college consisting of library where there are about 60 pc's are there on which xp is installed on c:/ partition. And d:/ is for storing data and backup.

Same is the case with computer lab. Where i use norton ghost boot disk to image the c:/ partition from the norton ghost dos boot interface and store the.gho file in d:/ partition. All is done by going through the manual process like this example:- what i want is the whole manual process of loading ghost from the ghost boot cd and from menu selecting local-partition to image and then save to d:/ drive has to be made automatic way.

Just by scripting a batch file with a menu as i detailed in my first post above the batch file which should perform the task as just booting from the cd rest the batch file will do the same manual task for us. In an unattended manner.

I don't make a every day schedule or once a month just once in a year creating the image of c and storing it in d:/. I am not able to create that autobatch file getting many errors can some one advice me how it should go. I hope you understand any more queries i wish to asnwer as well. I think I undersand now. Something like this: (Autoexec.bat) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @echo off PROMPT $P$G REM May need to set path here MOUSE.COM CHOICE /C:1234 /T:1,5 Press 1 To Create Image, 2 To Restore System, 3 for Ghost.

Comfy easy pc software download for windows 10. 4 to Exit If ERRORLEVEL 4 GOTO END IF ERRORLEVEL 3 GOTO GHOST IF ERRORLEVEL 2 GOTO RESTORE IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO IMAGE:GHOST ghost.exe:RESTORE echo Restoring System From Saved Image REM Put your Ghost command here GOTO END:IMAGE echo Creating System Image REM Put your Ghost command here:END ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I haven't tested it yet, but something like that would give you 4 menu choices and default to 'Create Image' after 5 seconds. I added a third option to start Ghost normally, I think that would be a handy option for some situations. The 4'th option to exit is in case someone booted to the disk by mistake or it wasn't removed in time after a image or restore. I didn't make the creation, restore, or set path lines yet because I'm not entirely sure about it yet. Dave Edit- that needs mouse.com or some other mouse driver and choice.com. I was gone a couple days to visit my Mom for thanksgiving. I'm pretty tired but I wanted to mention I might have made a mistake in that batch file.