The TechGuys : How to manually run a Ghost recovery

Summary

It is possible to run a Ghost recovery manually from the recovery CDs.

Problem or Symptom

The Ghost program is either located on the A: drive (In this case the A: drive is not the floppy disk drive), or the root of the recovery CD. By default, the Ghost application is a hidden program: searching through the CD in DOS will not find the Ghost file.

If you can not find the Ghost.exe programme try trping in:

DIR GHOST.* /S /A :H

This will search the drive that you are currently on for the ghost file.

In order to run Ghost manually, you need to be in the correct folder on the recovery CD.

Solution(s)

All eMachines™ are supplied with a bootable 2 or 3 CD recovery system.

Insert the bootable recovery CD 1
Choosing option 2 (BOOT TO COMMAND PROMPT FROM CD-ROM)

This will display a dos prompt.
A:\>

Type Ghost and press Enter.

If you get a 'File not found' error, then the ghost executable is located on the recovery CD. To run this

Type R: and press Enter.

Note: R is the default drive letter for the recovery program.

Type ghost and the main program will start.

The very first screen you will see is the 'About Norton Ghost' welcome screen. To continue selecting 'Ok' by pressing 'Enter'.

This will leave you at the main ghost screen.
Navigation within Ghost can be achieved either using the keyboard ( cursor keys, enter and tab) or with a mouse if DOS drivers have been loaded.
Mouse support will generally depend on how access to DOS was achieved.
Alternatively keyboard shortcuts can be used. For example on the welcome screen above, pressing Alt + o will select Ok.

2) At this point select 'Local' from the menu, followed by 'Disk' and then 'From Image'

3) At this point you will need to input the name of your image file.

There are two ways this can be done.

The first method is to type the full image name and location in the 'File name' box.
This would be along the lines of r:\rec800.img but varies from model to model.
The second method is to use the Ghost explorer windows to browse for the file.

To access the 'Look in' box press the 'Tab' key eight times. At this stage pressing the down cursor key will display a drive listing.

Navigate using the cursor keys until the necessary drive is selected and then pressing 'enter.' This will display the contents of the selected drive.

At this stage you may see the image file listed on the screen. If no image file is displayed then it may be necessary to change the 'Files of type' option further down the page to *.img or *.*

Once you can see the required image file then use the cursor keys to scroll through the menu until it is highlighted and press enter.
Note: If you have changed the 'Files of type' option you will need to press 'Tab' until Open is selected.

This will then display the following message.

4) Press enter to select OK
You then get partition details for the destination drive. Press TAB until OK is highlighted, then press Enter.
You will then get a message box asking you if you want to proceed. Tab to Yes and press Enter.

The recovery then starts. If necessary you will be prompted to swop the CDs and continue. This is done by pressing 'Enter'

Additional Notes