![]() When the machine was a 386 (i was born in 95 so im too young to remember it) the drive did die. I want to possibly preserve it just in case that hard drive does die. The biggest thing it has is my childhood. This machine features a 133Mhz Pentium 1, a 10Gb hard drive (Windows 95 sees only 7.5 i think it has a recovery partition my dad gave me a floppy that booted something that looks like an early norton ghost) 32mb of ram CD ROm and floppy. It kept us going from 92 all the way until 2004. what drivers need to be used?ĭid this help? Let us know how things progress.Greetings! I have a few older machines, including my parents first computer. Do your SATA optical drives have information about using them in DOS-i.e. The standard IDE optical driver used in *config.sys* is *oakcdrom.sys*. You will have to figure out what DOS driver works with your optical drive to mount the drive from *config.sys*, and then use *mscdex.exe* in *autoexec.bat* to assign a drive letter. Now, when you point Ghost at those image files, Ghost will work with them without problems! In this case, you have to load DOS drivers that mount the optical drive, and then assign drive letters to the mounted optical drive. You know Ghost is using its built-in drivers if the optical drive is ID'd with at the beginning of the drive.īut, if you have first saved the image file to a HDD, and later burn it to optical media-now Ghost, using it's built-in driver to access the optical drive, will refuse to recognize the Ghost file on the optical media! (Don't ask why-I don't know!) When you attempt to restore from that optical media, Ghost will use its built-in optical drivers to read that image and it looks for that *flag* and Ghost will proceed. If Ghost 7.5 behaves that way Ghost 2003 does (and they should-they're *kissing cousins* as far as versions go), when Ghost burns the image to optical media directly using its built-in drivers-it places some sort of *flag* on the image file saying Ghost created this file to optical media. This is where it is very helpful to *quote* the error message-but, I'm going to guess that Ghost says something to the effect that it's not a Ghost image file-is that correct? Again I can see the CD drive available and even see the file name of the image but it fails to recognize it when it is selected to start the copy. But when I try to start the operation it fails to be able to read or copy the file. ![]() Thanks in advance guys and keep up the good work!īut when I try to restore the image from CD I can see it in the drop-down list as available. I know I rambled on, I hope you can make sense of my rambling.īTW you guys have helped me out in the past and I would like to extend my thanks as late as it is. ![]() But when I try to restore the image from CD I can see it in the drop-down list as available. I have been able to boot from the SATA CD-ROM with my bootable CD. They will be coming in one or two at a time otherwise I guess he should have the image on a server as well. The main reason for the CDs are for a Vendor who sells us our Dell machines to be able to image these as they come in. So at the time I didn't have to worry about the SATA CD-ROM issue since all I needed was to boot from by bootable CD and push the image from the server. I was able to copy the image to CDs because the image was originally dumped by Ghostcast. Now what I am trying to do is to be able to restore my images from CDs which I copied the image to (6 cds). What I ended up doing was creating the bootable floppy by way of USB floppy, then coppied the bootable floppy to a CD so I didn't have to haul my USB floppy around to do images. Anyway, I have been successful with creating images for new Dell Optiplex 320s which just to fill you in if you don't know. First time post but I have been visiting off and on for at least two years.
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