The off-line version of Ghost, which runs from bootable media in place of the installed operating system, originally faced a number of driver support difficulties due to limitations of the increasingly obsolete 16-bit DOS environment. Driver selection and configuration within DOS was non-trivial from the beginning, and the limited space available on floppy disks made disk cloning of several different disk controllers a difficult task, where different SCSI, USB, and CD-ROM drives were involved. Mouse support was possible but often left out due to the limited space for drivers on a floppy disk. Some devices such as USB often did not work using newer features such as USB 2.0, instead only operating at 1.0 speeds and taking hours to do what should have taken only a few minutes. As widespread support for DOS went into decline, it became increasingly difficult to get hardware drivers for DOS for the newer hardware.
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Norton Ghost 2003, a consumer edition of Ghost, was released on September 6, 2002. Available as an independent product, Norton Ghost 2003 was also included as a component of Norton SystemWorks 2003 Professional. A simpler, non-corporate version of Ghost, Norton Ghost 2003 does not include the console but has a Windows front-end to script Ghost operations and create a bootable Ghost diskette. The machine still needs to reboot to the virtual partition, but the user does not need to interact with DOS. Symantec deprecated LiveUpdate support for Norton Ghost 2003 in early 2006.
The limitations of Ghost 9 compared to Ghost 2003 were not well-communicated by Symantec, and resulted in many dissatisfied customers who purchased Ghost 9 expecting the previous version's features (like making images from the bootable Ghost environment, no installation required, and no product activation).
This version provides a "LightsOut Restore" feature, which restores a system from an on-disk software recovery environment similar to Windows RE, thereby allowing recovery without a bootable CD. Upon system startup, a menu asks whether start the operating system or the LightsOut recovery environment. LightsOut restore would augment the ISO image, which comes with Ghost. The latter contains a recovery environment that can recover a system without a working operating system.
As of January 6, 2010, the latest build from Live Update is 11.5.1.2266 (Live Update 5 (LU5)).[10] This updates Ghost Solution Suite to 2.5.1 and provides support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Furthermore, Ghost 11.5 is compatible with BartPE's bootable CD using a PE Builder plug-in for Symantec Ghost 11[permanent dead link].
The ghost software for enterprise, including Ghost 12.0 and Deployment Solution 6.9, was released on 18 May 2017. Release Update 3, which was released 22 September 2017, added support for the ext4 filesystem.[13]
The ghost software for enterprise, including Ghost 12.0 and Deployment Solution 6.9, was released on 31 October 2018. This release added support for Ghost Solution Suite Web Console, iPXE, Windows Server 2016, Smart raw imaging, 4K native drive support.
Ghost is marketed as an OS deployment solution. Its capture and deployment environment requires booting to a Windows PE environment. This can be accomplished by creating an ISO (to burn to a DVD) or a USB bootable disk, installed to a client as an automation folder or delivered by a pxe server. This provides an environment to perform offline system recovery or image creation. Ghost can mount a backup volume to recover individual files.
I've always had problems doing a P2V with XP, it's always quite tricky. Still, the Ghost approach should work, I would think. I wonder if the ghost image files themselves are ok? Just for grins, have you tried restoring to another piece of hardware just to see if the Ghost will finish?
Couple of options are get Acronis which I do know supports virtual servers (maybe not virtualbox though so check) or change your server software to either MS virtual server or PC or the VM ware software. Virtual server should work fine even with ghost as it presents normal MS drivers to the VM. You will still have to sysrep though if using ghost. Acronis doesnt require that if you have the universal restore. VMware and Virtual server have P2V converters anyway so no need really for imaging to transfer.
It should be possible to install XP to a virtual hard disk (e.g. using VMWare) and then follow this procedure to make a bootable USB XP drive in the same way, however I have not successfuly tested this.
Easy2Boot (E2B) is popular multiboot USB solution that also contains agFM and Ventoy. It supports both Legacy and UEFI.Simply copy on your bootable ISO files to the E2B USB drive and boot! Boot to DOS, Linux, Windows Install ISOs (XP>Win11),automate Windows installs, WIM files, VHD files, images of flash drives, Linux ISO+persistence, etc.
Ever faced a virus attack on your PC? Have an old laptop that refuses to boot up one fine day, throwing up errors such as bootmgr missing or NTLDR missing? Your best option in both these cases may be to reinstall Windows on your computer. When you first use your computer, you're prompted to create a DVD backup of your Windows install, but keeping a DVD safely and not losing it can be a bother. Being able to reinstall Windows using a USB you just keep nearby can be a big help, and to do this all you need to do first is create a bootable Windows USB drive. This is also very helpful if you bought a compact laptop - many smaller new devices don't have a DVD drive.
Now you have a bootable pen drive ready, you can boot off this drive and install Windows. Installing Windows is quite straightforward, but the steps leading up to it may vary a little depending on the manufacturer of your computer. We've added a brief explanation below on how to do this.
However, the case is that you do not have a Windows 7 installation disc at hand. Or there is no built-in CD/DVD drive for your laptop to run the media. So is it possible to reinstall Windows 7 without CD? Well, the answer is Yes. The bootable USB can help you make it. Or if you do not want to use the USB for whatever reason, you can still find solution about how to reinstall Windows 7 without USB in this guide.
By the way, you can create a system image with AOMEI Backupper Standard, so when a fatal system crash happens next time, you can restore Windows 7 to an earlier date that works well as soon as possible. It can also help you create bootable USB to help you boot your computer when it goes wrong.
Wolfghost, Is your windows a 64 version? As i think this maybe be only a 32bit app... Handy, just waiting on the 64bit if they do it... As, well this is nice handy, small, quick and all.Click, save. done.... How i like it,....Also tested the NTUSER.DAT part, That worked great!
The literature coverage of virtualization concepts in chemistry is extremely sparse. One paper discusses the use of virtualization on supercomputers for molecular dynamics calculations utilizing more than 1550 processors [13]. Another chemistry related publication discusses the use of virtualization software in the pharmaceutical industry for virtual screening and lead optimization in a grid-like environment [14]. The use of VMs among software designers may be higher and is not fully reported in the peer-reviewed literature. The biggest advantage of installing virtual machine software is the ability to run applications from different operating systems on a single computer. Another advantage is to test software without the need of installing software into a working production environment. A similar approach is used with live-CDs that contain a bootable operating system with pre-installed software, such as the free Vigyaan electronic workbench for bioinformatics, computational biology and computational chemistry [15]. Such live-CDs can be easily mounted to virtual machines without needing to reboot the original production system. Furthermore, the Microsoft Windows operating system is known to slow down after installation of hundreds of software tools. That can be prevented by installing software into a virtual machine. We will investigate possible speed penalties during the use of virtual machines with a series of scientific benchmarks (see Table 2). For software development purposes software virtualization is used to compile native solutions and test software on different operating systems. Besides that, different software versions can show incompatibilities with data files created with different software versions. In such a case old software must be un-installed and new software must be re-installed. In case of platform virtualization, every new software version is installed into a single independent operating system. Every system change can be completely reversed with the included differential snap-shot system. In a university teaching environment platform virtualization is a fast way to deploy copies of the same installation file to multiple computers in a classroom.
A common application of virtual environments is application testing and development. Especially computer programmers use such VM technologies for testing the deployment of their software for cross-platform use under different operating systems. The distribution of existing (open) software packages is usually performed with live-CDs that contain a series of programs on a bootable LINUX CD [40]. Especially the Bioinformatics community has a strong history of using live-CDs such as the VLinux and the Vigyaancd for software distribution [41]. Such CDs can be converted to a single ISO file that can be mounted inside a virtual machine, allowing the LINUX system to run without the need to reboot. Although the direct distribution of pre-installed virtual machines is widely used in the computer science community the use in chemistry is very sparse. Some examples include the ECCE (Extensible Computational Chemistry Environment) [42] or the MASPECTRAS platform for management and analysis of proteomics data [43]. Complex installation processes and web server installations on production systems can be easily avoided by using such pre-configured virtual hard disks (VHDs). That also includes applications for grid computing inside virtual machines [14, 44]. It is must be realized that Windows software inside a pre-configured Windows system is not suited for worldwide distribution or outside a university with volume licensing, because each installation requires a paid license. The use of the WINE emulator [6] that is capable of running Windows software inside a LINUX virtual machine could be a possible solution. 2ff7e9595c
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