dos boot for Norton Ghost 2003

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 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,

Wota dinosaur...

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.

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?

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.

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.


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 wrote

Can you recommend one.

I dont bother to boot dos anymore so dont need one.

Any freeware?

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?

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.

Wouldnt cost much to add one for the convience with those
rather poorly designed apps that choose to do it like that.