How to Create a Ghost Network Boot Disk

Symantec Ghost is software that takes a complete snapshot of the hard drive on a computer and archives it as a backup. If the hard drive crashes or the PC fails to boot, Ghost replaces the hard drive in its entirety (including installed software and documents), saving the user from lost data and installation downtime. Ghost also can restore hard drives from a network computer. To restore a hard drive with a Ghost image on the network, a bootable disk must be created.

Things You'll Need

• Blank floppy disk

Instructions

1. Download network installation tools from Microsoft. There are two files needed to create bootable network disks. Below are the two files to download. Save them to a location on your hard drive.
   ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/clients/MSCLIENT/DSK3-1.EXE
   ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/clients/MSCLIENT/DSK3-2.EXE

2. Double-click each of the files downloaded to expand the zipped content into a directory on your hard drive. These files are compressed except for one, which is used to expand the others onto the floppy disk.

3. Double-click the "Expand.exe" file in the extracted files from Step 2. This opens a DOS command prompt where the bootable network Ghost disk is created.

4. Type the following command into the command prompt.
   expand.exe <compressed file> <destination>
   Replace "<compressed file>" with the file in the expanded directory and replace "<destination>" with the new file name and location of the floppy disk drive. Several files need to be expanded onto the floppy disk. The first file is shown as an example, and the total list is below. For instance, expanding the first needed file to the floppy uses the syntax:
   expand "EMSBFR.EX_" "a:\EMSBFR.EXE"
   This command expands the first needed file from the Ghost directory to the floppy drive.

5. Repeat Step 4 with all of the following files. The first file is the compressed file name, and the corresponding file is the name to copy onto the floppy drive.
   EMSBFR.EX_ --> EMSBFR.EXE
   IFSHLP.EX_ --> IFSHLP.EXE
   LMHOSTS --> LMHOSTS
   NEMM.DO_ --> NEMM.DOS
   NET.EX_ --> NET.EXE
   NET.MS_ --> NET.MSG
   NETBIND.CO_ --> NETBIND.COM
   NETH.MS_ --> NETH.MSG
   NETWORK_ --> NETWORKS
   NMTSR.EX_ --> NMTSR.EXE
   PROTMAN.DO_ --> PROTMAN.DOS
   PROTMAN.EX_ --> PROTMAN.EXE
   PROTOCOL --> PROTOCOL
   TCPDRV.DO_ --> TCPDRV.DOS
   TCPTSR.EX_ --> TCPTSR.EXE
   TCPUTILS.IN_ --> TCPUTILS.INI
   TINYRFC.EX_ --> TINYRFC.EXE
   UMB.CO_ --> UMB.COM

6. Search for the remaining needed files. Click the Windows "Start" button and select "Search." In the text box, type the following names to search the hard drive for the files.
   Emm386.exe
   Himem.sys
   Wfwsys.cfg
   Once you've found these names on your hard drive, right-click them and select "Copy." Double-click the "My Computer" icon on the desktop, right-click the "a:" drive and select "Paste" to copy them to the floppy.

References

• Symantec