Ghost Automated Restore Boot CD/DVD part2

Ghost will burn a series of 2gb files to DVD

CDR00001.GHO

CDR00002.GHO

CDR00003.GHO

etc..

Copy those files to somewhere on your PC. 

Now you need to create the boot disk and for that you will need to get WinImage. I use the portable version.

You will also need to get a win98 or XP dos boot disk. If you don't have boot disks you can get them from here.

You will need to edit the autoexec.bat file. Mine looks like this;

@ECHO OFF

PATH=A:\;A:\DOS;A:\GHOST;A:\NET

LOADHIGH MSCDEX.EXE /D:shane /L:T

LOADHIGH MOUSE.COM

GHOST.EXE -CLONE,MODE=LOAD,SRC=T:\CDR00001.GHO,DST=1 -SURE

My config.sys file looks like this;

DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS

BUFFERS=20

FILES=60

DEVICEHIGH=gcdrom.sys /D:shane

You will need to find gcdrom.sys on a search engine as win98 & xp boot disks used oakcdrom.sys (old IDE) for the CD/DVD driver but newer PC's use Sata and for this you need gcdrom.sys

To create a boot disk copy the contents from your a:/ drive (your floppy disk) or the contents from the boot disk you downloaded into WinImage. Make sure you select 2.88MB as all the dos files and the ghost.exe file won't fit onto a standard 1.44MB formatted boot disk. Make sure to include the edited autoecec.bat & config.sys files to WinImage :)

Now edit the Boot sector properties to the following.

Select Windows 95/98 or Win NT/2K/XP. I use 95/98 and never have problems. If you don't do this step and create the boot disk you will find that your PC never boots up and just freezes during dos POST. 

Now that you have your ghost files (cdr00001.gho etc., etc.) and your dos boot disk ready you just need to burn the whole project to DVD.

Part 3 to follow...

Ghost Automated Restore Boot CD/DVD

Guide on how to create an automated Ghost Restore Boot DVD. Comes in handy when you have a client that knows little to nothing about IT so you can give them a pre-made restore DVD that they just whack into their drive and in 20 mins they have their OS back up with no user input needed.


Setup the target computer how you want, install the OS, Office, Winrar, Drivers etc., keep in mind any OS from Windows 7 and above rarely fits on 1 DVD. Once you have the PC setup how you want it then you need to make a Ghost Image of it.

Reboot the PC with Hirens CD and run ghost. This guide is simple so I won't be showing how to restore a partition but rather a disk restore. If you just want to restore a partition then it's a simple matter of adjusting the Autoexec.bat script. Keep in mind that a disk restore will completely wipe/destroy ALL data on the Hard Drive. I have in the past created auto restore dvd's that restore just the C partition (The OS) and leaves all other partitions alone on the HDD.

When ghost has loaded,

1. Insert a blank DVD
2. Local/Disk/To Image.
3. Select the drive you want to image
4. Select DVD drive as where you want to save the image to.

This will create an image of your target PC on 1 or more DVD's depending on how much data is on your drive.

Once you have the image on DVD's then you need to goto your work/desktop PC and now create the automated ghost part.

End or part 1...