Thursday, May 21, 2009

Bootable Ghost USB key

Today I was trying to create a Bootable DOS USB thumbrive for restoring my GHOST partition, I search many times but cannot find a good solution. Finally, I solve it after many hours.

Hence to document it down.
Most of the instruction is from: http://visibleprocrastinations.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/build-yourself-a-bootable-ghost-usb-key/

The problem is I do not have floppy drive anymore.

1. Download and install HP flash drive creation tools (both)

a. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64963-order,1-page,1-c,peripherals/description.html

b. HP Drive Key Boot Utility Version 7.41
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&swItem=MTX-UNITY-I23839&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

2. Next download a win98SE setup flash image because only win98 support USB drive.
http://www.allbootdisks.com/download/98.html

3. Finally download bootkey that automatically configure for GHOST
Instruction as per http://visibleprocrastinations.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/build-yourself-a-bootable-ghost-usb-key/

download: http://www.mediafire.com/?tyhjtczcdf3


4. Since I do not have a floppy drive this is what I do.
Step 1 -> Format your thumbdrive using the installed "HP Drive Key Boot Utility"(from 1b)


Step 2 -> Using the win98SE image from 2.

Step 3 -> Remove and reinsert your thumbdrive, then copy all the content including system files into a directory.

Step 4 -> Now using "HP USB Disk Storage Format"(from 1a) to again format your thumbdrive, selecting the system files from Step 3.

Step 5 -> Finally copy the files from bootkey (from 3) into the thumbdrive including the ghost.exe into the correct folder.

You are now ready to go.

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