Rebooting my PC with the floppy in its drive automatically loads Ghost with PS2 mouse support and the rest is as per Rad's Guide. So, here are the details of the files on my now successful floppy disk: I keep a very basic installation of Win98SE on a geriatric 1.2GB HD (the kind that sounds like a WW2 machine gun) just for these occasions. The version of Ghost 2003 must be dated 12-24-03. The disk must be formatted and created using Windows 98.Ģ. I learned that the most important points to pay attention to are:ġ. zip) from the Princeton University's server the problem was solved. My original 2003 ghost.exe was dated 10-01-02 and displayed 'Norton Ghost 2003 Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Symantec Corp' and I was at a loss to understand why restored images of Win ME worked perfectly but restored images of WinXP Pro SP2 refused to boot past the dreaded blue screen.Īfter upgrading ghost.exe to the 12-24-03 version contained in the file ng2003b793_en.x86 (change the.
My PC is fairly basic: ASUS/AMD system with two parallel ATA hard drives (as per Rad's recommendations) and WinXP Pro SP2 on an NTFS partition. After a lot of hassles and research I managed to assemble a simple Ghost 2003 bootable floppy disk that, with a minimum of effort, creates and restores Windows XP Pro SP2 images perfectly and, as a gesture of appreciation to this forum, I thought I'd post the details for the benefit of others.
