#GHOST32 SWITCHES HOW TO#
#GHOST32 SWITCHES WINDOWS#

You can use one of those primary partitions to create an *extended* partition-which can contain as many *logical partitions* as the number of available drive letters will allow. As a standard, each HDD can have a max of 4 primary partitions. Well, it's out for sure if you use the *std boot loader* that's used by Microsoft. It seems you can't do it from an Extended or Logical partition, so that option might be out Then, you just have to figure out the necessary command lines, and where to put them in batch files that will run the commands when you need them.

#GHOST32 SWITCHES HOW TO#

And, if using BartPE, you will have to figure out how to transfer it to a HDD partition for booting from-instead of from a flashdrive or optical disc. You have to be able to create an additional primary partition for booting from.

Lots of details to keep track of! You need to get comfortable with the MBR program and changing boot partitions from *active* to *inactive* and from *unhidden* to *hidden*.

#GHOST32 SWITCHES WINDOWS#

You can then create a shortcut that you click to start the whole process of calling that Windows batch file-and, I've not done this, but I assume if you have *remote* access to a system, then you can remotely connect to the Windows OS, execute that batch file-and everything goes from there! This then brings you back to your original OS. You would have the needed commands in place to run a batch file that tells whichever version of Ghost you are using to create the Ghost image file you want, and when completed, your batch file would run the MBR program again (which you would also have on the Ghost partition) to re-set the partitions so the Ghost partition is now *inactive* and *hidden*, and your Windows partition is *unhidden* and *active*-and the final command is to re-boot. Once Windows closes down and re-boots the system, you would now be booting from your Ghost partition. The final command in the batch file would be to *re-boot*. The commands would be to change the current OS partition to *inactive* and *hidden*, and then the make your Ghost partition *unhidden* and *active*. You place the commands inside a batch file.

You then use a Master Boot Record (MBR) program that allows for running it from a command line. Or, you could use *ghost.exe*-the DOS based Ghost and then you create a bootable partition that is DOS based. You would have to add a primary partition and make it bootable-if you want to use Ghost32, then you would have to boot with BartPE so you have a Windows based OS available. This is doable-takes some setting up, but works fine once you get there-and, *yes*, it can probably be done from a BartPE partition-I'm not a BartPE person so don't know the details, but I've seen it referenced as doable-you need to put the needed commands in a batch file in the startup folder that references the needed batch file to run the needed steps as outlined below. I want to do everything from within the machine

Ghost32 switches