how to creat bootable hard disk

[Kalpesh patel]

I have sata(80 gb) hard disk, and i have thee different image file dvd which is not bootable. i am using those dvd by the help of ghost bootable disk. actually i want to copy all this image in one hard disk , and i want to use this hard disk for copying images hard disk to hard disk.

so, is it possible to make hard disk ghost bootable and store three or four images in hard disk?
and when use it ask me to select particular images for copy to next hard disk. how?

kindly provide me solution.

 

[Saga Lout]

I don't really understand the question but any hard disk you use will have to have an operating system on it. Linux may well be the answer to that but exactly what are the "images" on the DVDs?

 

[alyoshka]

Yes.
Firstly, you'll need to make that External HDD bootable... meaning format it using the standard DOS commands.
Then, second step , you need to copy the 3 or 4 files that Ghost uses after Boot.... Mostly it's called ghost.exe
Now you can copy your DVDs to the HDD and name the images according to the way you want them to be known.

For installing this onto another rig or copying the image....
You need to put this drive in as the boot drive,
when it boots into DOS , run Ghost, it'll then ask you for the image that you want to plaster onto destination drive....
Assuming this drive becomes C: the one on which you want the image to be put may be D:
Let the process finish, the rest of Ghost, I think you know how that works.

PS:
Easier option would be to buy a 32GB pen Drive, make it into a Ghost backup drive and copy the DVDs onto this drive.
That way, the new rigs will boot from the Pen Drive after you change the boot order and you can clone any of the images straight from the Pen drive to it.

 

[tupix]

I have an alternative solution: Hiren's Boot CD (HBCD) on USB Disk.
A few months ago I was trying to do the same thing you're doing now, and as I couldn't find an answer I used HBCD on my HD. So I "installed" HBCD on my Hard Drive, wich already has some Ghost images to backup ou restore another HD.
I have a newer Ghost version (works through network and USB devices), so it won't run on DOS mode, that's why run my Ghost version with a Portable version of Windows XP inside HBCD.

 

[Saga Lout]

It has to be pointed out here that Tom's does not support the use of Hirens because it contains an unlicenced version of Windows XP.