HELLO FRIENDZ UR WELCUM TO FREE WAP SITE,ENJOY TOTAL FREE STUFF HERE... Create Ghost BootableSD Card or USB Flash Drive It's a good practice to create an image of your hard drive before you start using it. Especially whenyou had to build that computer from scratch and spent hours installing the operating system and all of your favorite apps...
As Symantec Ghost becomes moreuser friendly, people start to recognize this idea. The idea also works well when you need to clean your PC from viruses. In case anything goes wrong with the operating system, you just need to restore the image using the Symantec bootable CD.
However, the problem comes when we deal with the new version of those small laptops: The netbooks! which usually don't come with a built-in CD-ROM drive to bootup the PC.
The most simple solution would bebuying an external CD-ROM drive, which costs you money. And in some cases, you just want to bootup the Symantec Ghost.... with whatever available!
The good news: Almost every recent laptop/netbook comes witha card reader, and even if you wasn't lucky enough, your laptop/netbook should have a USB port!
This guide will tell you how to create a bootable SD card or a USB flash drive with Symantec Norton Ghost.
This task can be done with several different versions of Symantec Ghost; however, the steps from this articles are basedon Symantec Ghost 14.
What you need?
*. Symantec Ghost 14 bootable CD.(Some other versions might alsowork)
*. A PC with bootable CD/DVD drive.
*. An SD card (either SD or SDHC), or a USB thumb drive. The size can be as minimum as 1 GB. You can also pick a large SD card if you want to store your hard drive image to the card as well.
*. An SD slot or a card reader (forSD card) or a USB slot (for thumb drive)
Follow the steps in order. Use thisguide at your own risks.
1. First, check to make sure your CD/DVD drive is bootable. (See your BIOS manual or PC user guide for details since this is outof the scope of this article).
2. - For SD card: Make sure the SDslot or the card reader is available. if it's a card reader, connect it to the PC. Also insert the card.
- For USB thumb drive: Make sure the drive is inserted into one of the USB slots.
3. Bootup the computer using the Symantec Ghost CD (Details varyon different computers). On Windows XP, during the startup,you should see the prompt " Press any key to boot from CD... ".
4. Once the Symantec Recovery startup is complete, you should see the main screen of Symantec Ghost 14 Recovery similar to this image:
5. Select " Analyze " from the left menu.
6. Then click on " Open CommandShell Window ". A command prompt window will display.
7. At this command prompt window, type: " diskpart " (one word, without quotes) and hit enter . The prompt now changed to " DISKPART> "
8. Now type " list disk " and hit enter . You should now see a list of all available disks. Base onthe size of each disk listed, find the one that matching your SD card (or thumb drive) and note its disk number under " Disk### ". If you don't see your SD card (or flash drive) listed, verify if it is inserted or pluggedin (you might need to restart the computer and try again).
9. Type " select disk <n> " (replace <n> with the disk # noted from the previous step) then hit enter .
Important!! Besure to select the correct disk (your SD card or thumb drive) as you will be erasing the drive.
Sample image with a 4-GB SD selected:
10. Create a primary partition for the the disk by executing the following sequence of commands:
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
11. Set the primary partition active, type: " active " and hit enter
12. Perform a quick format with the following command:
format fs=fat32 quick
13. Then type:
assign
exit
14. Your SD card (or the flash drive) is now bootable and will act similar to a local hard drive.In order to boot this card withSymantect Ghost Recovery, copy all contents from the Symantec Ghost disc to the SD card (or the flash drive). Besure to copy everything including any hidden files/folders.
The SD card or flash drive is now bootable and will boot your laptop/netbook to Symantec Ghost Recovery utilities exactly the same way as of the CD (To boot with thecard on your laptop/netbook, don't forget to set your bios to search for the SD card or USB external devices in the boot sequence) /><<>::. Go.Back .::<>>
