Unduly Noted

This is of course if you don’t want to setup ghost console.
One of the problems I have had with single machine ghosting is that you can’t boot from the ghost CD and also use a usb storage device to either put your images on or copy your images from. So you are stuck using dvd’s, and that can be fairly slow if the image spans across 8 of them. I came up with an easy way to make the USB drive visible in ghost, boot from it.
USB format/boot tool/utility is the proper HP tool. A few different sites link to the wrong tool that forces the fat drive to be a few gigs. This will let you take a external USB disk and get at most a 120gb partition out of it, which is plenty for my ghosting needs.

First thing we need to do is pop a floppy (yes i said floppy) into a windows XP or earlier machine. Format it and make sure you check the box to make it a bootable disk (this gives us the files needed for the USB drive). When you open the disk it will be blank, this is normal (you can also get the dos system file from anywhere else on the web if you don’t have a floppy). Next open up the usb format tool that you just downloaded. Choose your device, choose the filesystem (FAT32 if you want a large drive), name it, click quick format, click create a DOS startup disk and click the radio button that says “using DOS system files located at:”, now click the browse button and choose your floppy drive and hit “ok”. Click start and ok/yes through the next prompts. Now copy your GHOST folder (that conatins ghost.exe) to the usb drive. Reboot the machine and pull up your boot menu (sometimes F12 or just configure the bios to boot first from USB). It will boot you right to a command prompt. Type the following: cd \ghost\ghost.exe
Thats it. Go ahead and do your magic, the huge USB drive will show up in ghost now.