dos boot for Norton Ghost 2003

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I have a home server with several partitions. One of them is on the
primary disk and formated fat32.

when I boot from my ghost 2003 cd, I can see that partiton.

The ghost cd boots to some flavor of DOS and sets up usb drivers for my
external hd for recovery.

it works great, but Ideally I would have an option to boot from a flash
drive or that fat32 partion instead of the cd.

Is there any way to rip the bootsect.bin off that ghost cd so I can
boot from something else? I tried the mkbt utility but it could find
bootsect.bin. Format is also apparently not available on the cd.
 
Jason said:
I have a home server with several partitions.
One of them is on the primary disk and formated fat32.
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when I boot from my ghost 2003 cd,
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Wota dinosaur...
I can see that partiton.
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The ghost cd boots to some flavor of DOS and
sets up usb drivers for my external hd for recovery.
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it works great, but Ideally I would have an option to boot
from a flash drive or that fat32 partion instead of the cd.
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Any decent boot manager can do that.
Is there any way to rip the bootsect.bin off that
ghost cd so I can boot from something else?
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You dont need to do anything with the bootsect.bin off that ghost cd.
I tried the mkbt utility but it could find bootsect.bin.
Format is also apparently not available on the cd.
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Use a decent boot manager instead.
 
Jason wrote...
I have a home server with several partitions. One of them is on the
primary disk and formated fat32.

when I boot from my ghost 2003 cd, I can see that partiton.

The ghost cd boots to some flavor of DOS and sets up usb drivers for my
external hd for recovery.

it works great, but Ideally I would have an option to boot from a flash
drive or that fat32 partion instead of the cd.

Is there any way to rip the bootsect.bin off that ghost cd so I can
boot from something else? I tried the mkbt utility but it could find
bootsect.bin. Format is also apparently not available on the cd.
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Ripping bootsect.bin? sound too complicated!

Boot from hdd (fat32 partion) - just don't insert the bootable CD.

Boot from flash drive (usb key) -- use FlashBoot; just google it.
 
Can you recommend one. Any freeware?

I must be missing something .. I see a bunch of recent sw out there to
copy a boot sector you have to first create to a 3 1/2 to a usb drive.
Why won't any generic boot sector work?

I'm on windows 2000 and and don't have a floppy drive.

Thanks.
 
Jason said:
Can you recommend one.
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I dont bother to boot dos anymore so dont need one.
Any freeware?
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Very likely.
I must be missing something .. I see a bunch of recent sw
out there to copy a boot sector you have to first create to a
3 1/2 to a usb drive. Why won't any generic boot sector work?
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Generic in what sense ? If you mean from a hard drive, booting
a usb drive is different, essentially because something has to be
able to see the usb drive at boot time, normally the bios.
I'm on windows 2000 and and don't have a floppy drive.
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Wouldnt cost much to add one for the convience with those
rather poorly designed apps that choose to do it like that.
 
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