Is there any programs that can create a self installing boot disk for windows? I am currently using Ghost 9.0 (don't like the newer ones, dn0 why) which is great, but when I'm fixing computers for friends and others, they don't know how to use ghost to restore their computer, and therefor I would like to know if there's some program that can make an image of a partition, and then later on install it itself, without having to manually insert the image into ghost?
hopefully theres some non expensive programs that can do that, or even better some freeware?
Try Acronis True Image. Similar to Ghost but works better. You can create an image of your system on a separate partition. When booting your system, you can recover from this image by pressing F11. Sort of like the hidden partition some companies put on a hard drive to return it to factory state. Only you create the partition yourself.
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Microsoft Windows 95 employs the use of a bootable floppy disk to begin the installation of the Windows 95 operating system or to troubleshoot problems with the system. Microsoft Windows 95 uses the MS-DOS system to boot the computer first and then loads the Windows 95 operating system onto the machine. Windows 95 Boot Disks may be created in one of two ways: The Startup disk may be created from within Windows or a boot disk may be created from a free downloaded boot disk image. After the boot disk is created the disk may be used to boot the computer and install or troubleshoot Windows 95.
Click "Start" and then click "Settings" in Windows 95. Click the "Control Panel" option. Click "Add and Remove Programs." Click "Startup Disk" and then click "Create." Insert the blank floppy disk into the disk drive. Click "OK." The operating system will create the Windows 95 boot disk. Click "OK" when the disk is finished. Create the Windows 95 Boot Disk using Downloaded Boot Disk Image Open a Web browser and navigate to the boot disk image site (See "Below"). http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm Download the Windows 95 boot disk image and save the .EXE file to the desktop. Click the .EXE file to unzip the enclosed files. The formatting application will start. Insert the blank floppy disk into the disk drive and click "OK." The Windows 95 boot image will be created on the blank floppy disk. Use the Windows 95 Boot Disk Insert the Windows 95 boot up disk into the computer's floppy disk drive. Power the computer down by clicking "Start" and then clicking "Shutdown." Power on the computer with the Windows 95 boot disk in the floppy disk drive. The computer will boot up into MS-DOS to enable installation or troubleshooting of Windows 95.
If you have a true image to restore from, as like what is created with Win7 Pro Backup, or from Norton Ghost, you should be able to make a total restore. The destination drive had to be the same size or larger than from the drive the original image was taken from.
With Windows, you will require the image recovery DVD disk that are created using the OS that the image was generated from. With Ghost, you will require the Ghost recovery DVD disk to restore the image.
Sounds like a hard drive problem to me too. I'd get it replaced ASAP.
It is a standard 2.5" SATA drive in the 900 HA.
In terms of specs, you'll get better performance with a 7200 RPM drive, but worse battery life. Don't get a hard drive a ton bigger than you need - there's no point. Save yourself some money that way.
A 250 or 320GB 7200 RPM drive will certainly work. It takes 4 small screws to remove the current hard drive.
The only other thing you need to consider is whether or not you want to image the drive, or just back it up.
My recommendation for a cloning program is Norton's Ghost (which is not free). At the same time, for a situation like this, I wouldn't bother imaging the drive and would just get a fresh install of Windows if possible - that's just me though.
If you need any more help don't hesitate to ask!
Alex
Are you reffering to Norton Ghost? If so newer versions require that you install the software on the pc itself, from there you can select to do a full disk back up which will create a system image.
If you have an older version you can actually boot from the CD-ROM on system boot and create your image from there.
You can make an image of your hard disk and copy it to a CD, use this to restore your computer. There several programs that can do this. I like Nortons Ghost. If you prefer something else do a Google search for this type of programs.
If the post screen is saying no HDD installed then you have remove the hard drive from the machine as soon as possible before it fails completely and you loose all the data you have on it.
As soon as you have a new HDD installed and an operating system on it you can then connect the bad hard drive as a slave device either in an external case or internal for the time being so you can get your data from it.
Aquire disk imaging program such as norton ghost. Install 2nd, larger HDD into existing computer. Boot computer using ghost boot disk. "Image" existing HDD to newer, larger HDD.
Remove existing HDD. Set 'new' HDD to proper position (Master, etc).
hi, yea you may, but make sure that you have already created a *Ghost* image of your current setup.
All you need is a bootable CD with some utilities which will help you out.
Try "hiren's Magic Disk 9.5" : it is bootable disk with proper menus and lots of utilities to make you king of your system.
This disk is usually used by System professionals (including me) :)
Instructions: 1. Boot your system with this magic disk 2. Goto Clone Disk option (Ghost disk) 3. Choose Best compression version 4. utility will start Symantec Ghost which will ask you for the source partition and destination partition for making images. 5. proceed with proper answers. 6. once the ghost imaging is complete, store this ghost image in your external storage drive 7. again boot your system with this magic disk 8. goto Partition utilties 9. Select Acronis Partition manager 10. You'll love to use this software for hard disk maintanence.
You can use a hard drive imaging program such as Norton Ghost to create a recovery DVD(s). Norton Ghost is available as part of System Works or as a stand alone program. Power Quest's Drive Image is also an alternative, however it is too old to be compatible with Vista - you could do a Drive Image outside of Windows - booting off the Floppy.
After fdisk and format you need to ensure that operative system is installed into yor hard drive. Using ghost you restore the image disk by booting from ghost image CD if you made a bootable image disk. Ensure Bios is set up to boot from CD. If you used Norton Ghost ensure you captured the image of full bootable original hard disk drive for same computer. If it does not boot after restoring ghosted image, than the image it is probably not complete. If hard disk image is not good, easiest thing to do is using Windows install CD to installl again operative system, then you eventually restore ghost image.
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