Ididmyc600
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Not sure if this is the right place (and god knows ive been around here long enough) but its a windows problem or maybe it isnt..
I own one of those nice little netbooks, the one that doesnt have a CD or DVD rom drive..
Now all i want to do is take the image i have of the system drive (created with ghost and stored on the D partition) and put it on a DVD,
This DVD must be bootable.........
Thats easy i can do that with my eyes closed and wearing boxing gloves...
BUT
Im using an external USB DVD drive and no matter what i do i cant get it to boot from the dammed thing.
Ive googled loads and tried for 4 hours to create a disk that can boot using the USB DVD drive and i have had no luck at all
I can get the disk to boot using the standard method of creating a bootable disk but when it boots DOS complains that no drives are found and although the disk boots to a ghost shell it cant see the image files on the disk,
However using the above disk in a laptop that has an inbuilt DVD drive it works fine, i assume its because its connected via the IDE controller as opposed to connected via USB
I have tried all kinds of USB drivers most result in a non bootable disk, i have even tried a Ghost Boot disk with USB drivers loaded on it and that just sticks at the first attempt to load the USB drivers.
Now dont think for one minute there is something wrong with the unit because.......
I have used an XP Pro disk with the same setup and successfully set XP Pro on the system and I have a USB HDD that is bootable and that works fine.
Im assuming that something is missing in either the autoexec or config sys files that tells the boot process to load USB drivers and that the disk is a USB device..I just cant work out what it is.
Strange that an XP disk works fine so there must be a way to do it..
Any ideas ??
Oh and ive also had a collegue at work spend 2 days with the same issue and he's scratching his head as well
I own one of those nice little netbooks, the one that doesnt have a CD or DVD rom drive..
Now all i want to do is take the image i have of the system drive (created with ghost and stored on the D partition) and put it on a DVD,
This DVD must be bootable.........
Thats easy i can do that with my eyes closed and wearing boxing gloves...
BUT
Im using an external USB DVD drive and no matter what i do i cant get it to boot from the dammed thing.
Ive googled loads and tried for 4 hours to create a disk that can boot using the USB DVD drive and i have had no luck at all
I can get the disk to boot using the standard method of creating a bootable disk but when it boots DOS complains that no drives are found and although the disk boots to a ghost shell it cant see the image files on the disk,
However using the above disk in a laptop that has an inbuilt DVD drive it works fine, i assume its because its connected via the IDE controller as opposed to connected via USB
I have tried all kinds of USB drivers most result in a non bootable disk, i have even tried a Ghost Boot disk with USB drivers loaded on it and that just sticks at the first attempt to load the USB drivers.
Now dont think for one minute there is something wrong with the unit because.......
I have used an XP Pro disk with the same setup and successfully set XP Pro on the system and I have a USB HDD that is bootable and that works fine.
Im assuming that something is missing in either the autoexec or config sys files that tells the boot process to load USB drivers and that the disk is a USB device..I just cant work out what it is.
Strange that an XP disk works fine so there must be a way to do it..
Any ideas ??
Oh and ive also had a collegue at work spend 2 days with the same issue and he's scratching his head as well