Those of you who follow my blog (or know me in person) are well aware that I’m a big fan of Norton Ghost backup software.
Of course in Hirenboot will include Norton Ghost tools help you ghost Win 7. Step 2: Next, you perform the following steps to ghost Win 7 by USB. First to start the computer, you then select USB boot with Dos Program. Then follow the steps shown below to access the Norton Ghost. To ghost Win 7, you select Local Partition From Image. MemDisk 4.05 Allow booting legacy operating systems, floppy images, hard disk images and some ISO images. PLoP Boot Manager 5.0.14 Boot different operating systems harddisk, floppy, CD/DVD or from USB, it can boot from an USB/CD/DVD even without BIOS support.
One of the major problems I’ve had with Norton Ghost is the fact that it only provides the ability to create a recovery CD … it doesn’t provide any ability to install the recovery software on a USB flash drive. USB flash drives are much faster that CD’s and are read/write, so they can be updated at a later date.
After a bit of digging, I’ve figured out how to create one without too much trouble.
The first thing that we need to do is create a bootable flash drive.
I found a very good, and simple, set of instructions to create a Windows Vista / 7 bootable flash drive on Kevin’s Blog. I used these instructions to transfer Windows 7 to a flash drive when I installed it on my laptop.
The following is an amalgamation of Kevin’s instructions and my adaptation to create the Norton Ghost Recovery flash drive. …
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Step 1: Format the Drive
The steps here are to use the command line to format the disk properly using the diskpart utility. [Be warned: this will erase everything on your drive. Be careful.]
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Step 2: Make the Drive Bootable (this is where we start deviating from Kevin’s instructions)
Next we’ll use the bootsect utility that comes with Norton Ghost to make the flash drive bootable. In the same command window that you were using in Step 1:
Step 3: Create a Norton Ghost Recovery CD
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Follow the instructions included with Norton Ghost to create a recovery CD. Be sure you remove any unusable drivers from the recovery CD (this is usually only needed when you are running the 64bit version of Windows).
Alternatively, you can create an ISO image of the recovery CD (without actually burning a CD) … I’ll explain what you do in this case next.
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Regardless of how you create the recovery CD, I suggest you set the serial number, timezone, and networking services appropriately (saves time when you are actually recovering a machine and, I think, it activates services that might not be available otherwise).
Step 4: Copy the Norton Ghost Recovery CD contents to the flash drive
After you’ve created the recovery CD, you’ll need to re-insert the CD and copy the contents to the flash drive.
If you created the ISO image instead of burning an actual CD, you can use a “ISO Mounter” program to mount the ISO image as a drive on your computer and copy the contents of the ISO to the flash drive. I’ve found SlySoft Virtual CloneDrive to be a very useful utility to do this. It’s free and easy to use.
Step 5: Test the Norton Ghost Recovery Flash Drive
Obviously you need to test the flash drive to ensure it works.
To do this, you’ll need to reboot your machine and hit whatever key is necessary to activate the boot drive selection option in BIOS (on Dell machine’s it’s usually F12, other machines might be ESC. Check your computer manual or simply watch the BIOS screen when the system boots up).
You should find that the flash drive boots into a special version of Windows Vista and launches into Norton Ghost’s recovery mode.
Theoretically, you should be able to add other utilities to this flash drive that can be run inside the recovery environment.
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