Where to start? I SHOULD have enough tools at my disposal to take care of this problem myself, but I keep hitting roadblocks. Normally, I have a ghost boot disk that I use to connect to our network and dump an image using Ghost Server 7.0.
Unfortunately, I don't have the NIC drivers I need on this boot disk, so I improvise. I installed an IDE HD (which I had to reload while installed to make it work) to boot off of, and used ghost 8 to dump an image of the SATA HD onto my USB HD. I used my bootimg.bin via NERO 7 to create my new boot DVD with image onboard. Once the new drive is imaged, it's stuck in a loop. When it tries to load windows, it reboots. I figure I missed something in the MBR, so I go back and rebuild the image... only now it's too big to use with the NERO DVD (boot-ISO) format... and oddly enough, Ghost 8 creates one file larger than 2GB, but Ghost 7 creates two files (one right at 2GB, the other just under 2GB)... so I pull out my old PE Builder boot disk, connect to the server, dump the image (using ghost 8) which creates the 2 files I need.
Using the new image, I create a new disk with my bootimg.bin, and everything works wonderfully until it says I need a newer version of ghost to load the image. Swap out ghost.exe on the boot disk... ghost 8 won't work in DOS mode it tells me.
Unfortunately, I do not have my old PE Builder .bin file or I would just add the images to it and burn a new one. Please, if anyone has any suggstions, I'm at my wits end.
If someone can tell me how to edit .bin files, I would gladly do so... or if you can tell me how to smush my boot disk together with the image files, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jason
*I do have Alcohol 120%, but after I mount the drive and try to copy the image files over, it gives me an error claiming the files in th ISO I created are read only.
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