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PostIcon Posted on: May 03 2007,10:26  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

I just bought UltraISO creator

I’m trying to convert Symantec ghost 2 boot floopies into a  bootable cd. They work great booting from floopy.

I downloaded easy cd creator. Did the tools=>make floopy image of  bootfloopy. (if this correct it is a missing step in the attached link)
Then used that image to ā€œcreate new imageā€=>set the image size to 2880 and created the 2880 sized image.

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http://forum.ezbsystems.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=2;t=1238

Then started UltraISO, in the ā€œlocal file list sectionā€ browsed to the 2880 bootimage location. Then clicked on the image file and then clicked on the Set Boot Iconā€œlocal file list sectionā€. That changed the image type to Boobable CD. I then copied in my files from my two boot floopies into the image portion of the program.

Then did Bootable=>Save Boot File

And  Bootable=>Clear Boot information

Then File=>save as and saved as ISO

Then burned my cd

When I insert the CD into a pc and boot it ignores the CD. It never attempts to boot from floopy and continues on.

I have successfully made another bootCD with UltraISO and booted the pc with it but not able to do the Ghost floopies.

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I guess you could call this progress.

I’ve followed the same steps above except that I’m not clicking the icon on in the local section. I’m hitting the load bootfile under menu Bootable=> Load boot file. As from this link.

http://forum.ezbsystems.net/cgi-bin....4;st=10

Now when I try to boot from cd I get boot disk failure.

The floppies are using PC-Dos.
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PostIcon Posted on: May 03 2007,20:12 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

It is recommanded to do it this way:
1) Start UltraISO
2) Choose 'File'->'New'->'Bootable CD/DVD Image' from main menu, select the floppy image and click 'Open'
3) Save to an ISO image
4) Burn to a recordable CD
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Thanks for replying xoben,

I did the ā€œfile=>new=>bootable cd/DVD imageā€ and opened the 2880 sized floppy image.

Saved to an ISO image and burned.

I still get the Boot disk failure.

I also tried ā€œfile=>new=>bootable cd/DVD imageā€ and opened the 2880 floppy image.

Then added the files that should be on the two floopies Ā saved as ISO image, burned cd.

Still got the boot disk failure.


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Then added the files that should be on the two floopies  saved as ISO image, burned cd.

If you have two floppies, please read a related topic at http://forum.ezbsystems.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=2;t=1240 .
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Utterly confused at this point after following the links which are links to links that sometimes link back to the original link. :D

Here is the gist of what I attempted.

Using easy boot created a seed using "Make floopy image". Is this right?

Then used easy boot and ā€œcreate new imageā€ used the image I made in the step above to created an 8640 sized Ā image.

Downloaded ezboot, extracted to c:\

Copied my 8640 IMG file to c:\ezboot, renamed it as bootdisk.img

Started UltraISO, choose 'New'->'Bootable CD/DVD image and Ā specified c:\ezboot\loader.bin as the boot Ā file.

Added the folder c:\ezboot to the image area

Saved to an ISO and burned


When I booted from Disk I got the "boot disk failure."

So I went back to ā€œoriginal image" from the ā€œMake floopy imageā€ sorted by LBA. Extracted the first 3 files Ā ā€œconfig.sys autoexec.bat mouse.comā€ and inserted them into the ā€œlarge empty imageā€ hope that was supposed to be the bootdisk.img I created in ezboot, because that is what I used, then saved that image.

Then repeated the steps to create the ISO image.

And booted from cd

Got ā€œ Boot Disk failureā€ :(
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Hello GNHelton, could you provide step by step inetructions about how did you create the 2.88MB floppy image?
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I don't use ultraiso, i use winimage. But it might be very similar. I create the two ghost floppys, then create a image file using the first disk. I then tell winimage to change the format to be 2.88mb. I then inject the ghost.exe to the ghost folder on the image. I use nero to create the boot disk using the image. I enable the expert setting and change the "kind of emulation".

I will check online for a trial of ultraiso, it might be useful on other projects.

I hope this helps.

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I don't use ultraiso, i use winimage. But it might be very similar. I create the two ghost floppys, then create a image file using the first disk. I then tell winimage to change the format to be 2.88mb. I then inject the ghost.exe to the ghost folder on the image. I use nero to create the boot disk using the image. I enable the expert setting and change the "kind of emulation".

I will check online for a trial of ultraiso, it might be useful on other projects.

I hope this helps.

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