How to Create the Ghost Bootable SD Card or USB Flash Drive

How to Create the Ghost Bootable SD Card or USB Flash Drive

by Malik korrich ~ vendredi 6 mars 2015

It's a pretty good practice dude  to create an image of your hard drive C,D,E,F,  Whatever you want

before you start using it.this is very importent trick by which with the help of this trick you save your

time which you give your computer to maintinence,i mean you love your computer very much ,think

about it ,if your computer crashed or your computer need hardly refres your pc,genraly it happend by

such type of virus ,worm,trojan etc which is injected by hacker so i recommend simply make a image of your harddisk ,if your computer or laptop having problem and you refres it dont worry simply use

the image form of your hardisk for recover all of your data .    Especially when you had to build that

computer from scratch and spent hours installing the operating system and all of your favorite apps...

As we know that Symantec Ghost becomes more user friendly at this time,so people start to

recognize this idea. The idea also works well when you need to clean your PC from malware,viruses.

In case anything goes wrong with the operating system, you just need to restore the image using the Symantec bootable CD.

However, some of the problem comes when we deal with the newly version of those small laptops,

The netbooks  which usually don't come with a built-in CD-ROM drive to bootup the PC.

A alternative methode  or we can say The most simple solution would be buying an external

CD-ROM drive, but it is costly and you have to pay for that. And in some cases, you just want to

bootup the Symantec Ghost ,,,with whatever available

The good news: Almost every recent laptop/netbook comes with a card reader, and even if you wasn't lucky enough, your laptop/netbook should have a USB port!

here we give you the very simplest form of the article "how to create a bootable SD card or a USB 

flash drive " obiously with Symantec Norton Ghost.

in my opnion This task can be done with several different versions of Symantec Ghost; however, the

steps from this articles are based on Symantec Ghost 14.

what is your requirement?

  1 )  An SD slot or a card reader (for SD card) or a USB slot (for thumb drive)
 
 2 ) obiously you need A computer or laptops which have  bootable CD/DVD drive.

 3) Symantec Ghost 14 bootable CD. (Some other versions might also work)

 4) An SD card (either SD or SDHC), or a USB thumb drive. The size can be as minimum as 1 GB. You can also pick a large SD card if you want to store your hard drive image to the card as well.
 so without wasting your valuable time lets begin now this article Follow the steps in order. Use this guide at your own risks.
 
step:1)     Make sure the SD slot or the card reader is available. if it's a card reader, connect it to the PC. Also insert the card.
 
step:2)     First of all , check to make sure your CD/DVD drive is bootable. (See your BIOS manual or PC user guide for details since this is out of the scope of this article).
 
step:3) Make sure the drive is inserted into one of the USB slots.
 
step:4)  Bootup the computer using the Symantec Ghost CD (Details vary on different computers). On Windows XP, during the startup, you should see the prompt "Press any key to boot from CD...".

 step:5) Once the Symantec Recovery startup is complete, you should see the main screen of Symantec Ghost 14 Recovery similar to this image:
 


    step:6) AFTER THAT see left side of the screan simply  Select "Analyze" .
       

  step:7)  Then when you click on analyze button you see right side of the window simply click on "Open Command Shell Window".


step:8) after that A command prompt window will display.  At this command prompt window, type: "diskpart" (one word, without quotes) and hit enter. The prompt now changed to "DISKPART>"

step:9) Now type "list disk" and hit enter. You should now see a list of all available disks. Base on

the size of each disk listed, find the one that matching your SD card (or thumb drive) and note its disk number under "Disk ###". If you don't see your SD card (or flash drive) listed, verify if it is inserted or plugged in (you might need to restart the computer and try again).

 step:10)   Type "select disk " (replace with the disk # noted from the previous step) then hit enter.
    
Important: Besure to select the correct disk (your SD card or thumb drive) as you will be erasing the drive.Sample image with a 4-GB SD selected:

 

 step:11)  Create a primary partition for the the disk by executing the following sequence of commands:
 
    clean
    create partition primary
    select partition 1

    step:12) make sure Set the primary partition active, type: "active" and hit enter

step:13)  Perform a quick format with the following command:
 
  format fs=fat32 quick
    Then type:
    assign
    exit

The SD card or flash drive is now bootable and will boot your laptop/netbook to Symantec Ghost

Recovery utilities exactly the same way as of the CD (To boot with the card on your laptop/netbook,

don't forget to set your bios to search for the SD card or USB external devices in the boot sequence).

    Your SD card (or the flash drive) is now bootable and will act similar to a local hard drive. In order to boot this card with Symantect Ghost Recovery, copy all contents from the Symantec Ghost disc to

the SD card (or the flash drive). Besure to copy everything including any hidden files/folders.