USB Ext drives + boot disk

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The REAL Paul

Hi all,

I'm wanting to burn a ghost image to a raft of PCs from an external usb hard
drive. Can anyone give me any ideas of how to be able to see the usb drive
when booting with a boot disk?

Thanks

Paul
 
Include a driver for the hard drive on the boot disk.

This raft of PCs - they all have identical hardware, right? And you have
a separate license for each copy of Windows, or a volume license, right?
 
The batch of PCs are all DELL Precision 390's shipped with WinXP Pro. After
the image is burnt, I use a freeware app called magicaljellybean
(www.magicaljellybean.com) to change the license key.

I realise any change in hardware will casue XP to blue screen.

Thanks for your help
 
If you created the "ghost" image by using the program Ghost by Symantec, it
has the ability within the entire Ghost package to do just what you want to
do. I haven't used the product with a USB drive for a few years so I can't
direct you to the particulars but the help and "manual" will give full
instructions.

If you used a different cloning software that software will also have a way
to "restore" an image to a drive.
 
The REAL Paul said:
Hi all,

I'm wanting to burn a ghost image to a raft of PCs from an external usb
hard drive. Can anyone give me any ideas of how to be able to see the usb
drive when booting with a boot disk?

Thanks

Paul
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If you are using Ghost then just create a boot disk with USB Support. Don't
know what level Ghost you have but on my version you just got to Ghost
Utilities and click the Norton Ghost Boot Wizard.
 
Burning usually refers to burning files to CD/DVD.

You probably mean restoring an image file to each PC.
The last two versions of Ghost, if like its predecessor DriveImage, use the
boot CD, which is also the installation media of Ghost/DriveImage. The
environment and drivers loaded from this boot media can access USB/Firewire
devices.

If a prior version of Ghost, the devil's in the details when asking the
question. Which you didn't provide.
 
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