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Converting a Ghost Image to a bootable ISO file

  • 01-07-2005 11:15am
    #1
    woodyg
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    Hi im wondering is it possible to convert an existing Ghost image into a bootable .iso file.

    i have an existing ghost image of XP pro and i want to convert it to an iso using Ultraiso.

    Is this possible


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  • #2
    hostyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭hostyle


    woodyg wrote:
    Hi im wondering is it possible to convert an existing Ghost image into a bootable .iso file.

    i have an existing ghost image of XP pro and i want to convert it to an iso using Ultraiso.

    Is this possible

    I know ghost gives you this option when you are actually creating the ghost - so it should be possible. Have you played around with the various stuff it installed in Windows? Or searched the manual?

    Basically you just need a bootable DOS CD, that has ghost on it and autoruns ghost with the correct command line options when booted.


  • #3
    woodyg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭woodyg


    i cant use ghost cause it requires a new image to be created and it points the new image to be split between a local drive and the dvd you want to right to.

    i need to create a bootable iso file so i can image an IBM server which ahs scssi drives on it.

    i tryed just writing the ghost image file to a dvd and getting ghost to point to the image but it just doesn't regognise the file.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
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    What you may need to do is create a bootable CD with three parts
    First a boot disk / CD that can load DOS drivers so you can see the SCSI and CD drives. - point Nero or whatever at this when it asks for the bootable disk - if the Ghost CD recognises the drives you might be able to use it.
    Next Ghost program files that run from DOS. I'd imagine you'd copy all the files off the Ghost CD into a folder, so you could point at that folder when adding files to the list to be burnt.
    Third the image itself.

    If Ghost bootable CD won't recognise the SCSI drives and can't be started from a dos prompt then you have to hunt down an older version, and I've no idea if the saved format would be readable by it.

    Option B - the CD drive is probably IDE, so put the image on an IDE hard drive and plug it in.


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