End of line trying to boot from USB floppy to do ghosting

[orman]

Laptop HP nx7010 - Can't boot from USB floopy (or hard drive for that matter) to do ghosting. (Ghost 2003).

Well that is not entirely true, after several people looked at it and trying to get the laptop to boot from a USB floppy, we used a Win 98 disk to boot, then another disk to get Ghost going. It took 15 hours for the imaging process to finish on a 6G image!!!! And we started to restore, but seeing that it was going to take 15 hours also so we canceled out of that.

Besides the obvious, (bios update or setting, different floppy drive, different boot disk...) anything out there out of the ordinary that we might want to try?

(HP Help Desk said 'switch this setting and that setting in the bios, and if that doesn't work, then it won't work. You've done everything you can.'
I no longer have a high opinion of HP any longer.)

Thanks.

 

[micker377]

Where are you saving yor ghost image? What are the specs of your system? I started with a USB 1.1 external drive. 4 - 6 hours. Went to USB 2.0. Dropped down to 3 hours. Ended up with Firewire - 45 - 50 minutes!

This is for 14+gig image, with XP SP-2 and ghost ver 3.

 

[orman]

They are new laptop - USB2.0. Ghosting to an external USB harddrive. Had no problem Ghosting desktops - 45 minutes to Ghost, 15 to restore.
Getting the Ghost floopy disk to boot a HP laptop from a USB floopy seems impossible.

 

[wolluf]

Going off at a bit of a tangent..

What options to boot from does bios have? (eg, can it boot from a USB memory stick - if it can, you can make one of these bootable and add ghost - I've got one that works fine with my PC).

Or do you have a USB enclosure for laptop drives - which you could attach to another machine and restore ghost image to?

 

[micker377]

When you create the "Restore Boot" floppy (on the laptop), go into advanced and select the type of drivers you need for the reatore disk. You may have to experiment, I had a hard time choosing the correct drivers to would make the Restore disk work. For some reason, the opening lines of restore look for a ZIP-Disk! When it can't find them, the disk continues on,to work OK.