RE: Talking of "Ghost"s...

["Mark Hetherington \(egroups\)" <mark.egroups@xxxxxxx>]

Few things you could try....

1) Can you not use a "Standard" Win98 install CDROM? They have
boot
capabilities and will install appropriate drivers.
2) Use drive image or drive copy and actually create the original image on
a
bootable CD that you can use to restore the image. It may force the HDD to
partition to the original size but you can fix that afterwards with partion
magic or similar or just live with 2 partitions.
3) Boot from a standard Win98 install CD. Quit setup. SYS the HDD. Make a
Win98 directory and copy the install files to it. Run setup from HDD. (i.e.
standard work around for buggy CDROM drives.
4) Network install.

HTH

Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 18 August 2001 00:15
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Talking of "Ghost"s...
>
>
>
> I have a problem...
>
> ...well, I have many problems but maybe this one you can help
> with. (I have
> a lady with a comfy couch and half a scrabble bag of letters
> after her name
> helping me with the others.)
>
> I have to take an image of a bare install of Win98 from my Sony
> VAIOs 4.3Gb
> Hard Disc and put it onto a 12Gb Hard Disc ... sounds easy right?
> And whilst
> I have the 4.3Gb hard disc it is easy but the 4.3Gb is allocated
> for someone
> else and so I need to get along without it.
>
> The VAIO won't boot from floppy (it's a USB floppy) and so I need
> to create
> effectively a "rescue" CD that is bootable and will
reinstall my bare
> install of Win98 from dead.
>
> Bought Norton Ghost today but it looks like that needs a boot floppy
to
> work. Tried creating a bootable CD with CD Creator but the VAIO
doesn't
> recognise it (although my Compaq Armada does) so does anyone have any
> suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong here and how can I
create an
> autobooting CD that will just give me a nice clean Win98 install? (I
can't
> use the normal Win98 installer as the only place I can get the drivers
for
> the USB floppy and the IRDA port are from within the recovery CDs
Win98
> image!)
>
> Sony - looks good, works great ... but yer buggered if you want
> to stick in
> a bigger HD as the recovery CD is tied to the capacity of the original
> drive!
>
> Phil
>
>
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