Drive letter a: for USB Key booting

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You may need to check with the BIOS on the computer you are trying to do
this.


<busterama@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1124210019.954510.193360@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> I've made a memory key bootable. It's booting up dos, but assigning
> the drive letter of c: for the memory key.
>
> I want to use the memory key in lieu of a floppy drive for booting a
> ghost boot disk with network support.
>
> Is there anyway to get the key to come up as a:\ instead of c:\?
>
> Do I really need to get it to a:? Will it interfere with imaging to
> the harddrive c:\?
>
> Thanks,
> Buster
>

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The reason your USB disks boots as C: is because the partition that contains
Windows is on NTFS formatted partition and your BIOS does not recognize it
as a valid bootable partition (MBR will handle that, but there is more to
it) and it assigns C: to it. You really do not need to worry about not being
booted as A: drive since the ghost software does not care how you booted.
There may be some version of BIOS that can force it to boot as A: but if it
works from C:, why bother.

--
Pavel


<busterama@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1124210019.954510.193360@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> I've made a memory key bootable. It's booting up dos, but assigning
> the drive letter of c: for the memory key.
>
> I want to use the memory key in lieu of a floppy drive for booting a
> ghost boot disk with network support.
>
> Is there anyway to get the key to come up as a:\ instead of c:\?
>
> Do I really need to get it to a:? Will it interfere with imaging to
> the harddrive c:\?
>
> Thanks,
> Buster
>

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Oh, I forgot to mention.....

When you are ready to restore your stored Image, the ghost will actually
show you the physical drive and the partition on that drive, not as a drive
letter. So the C: does not mean anything during restore.

--
Pavel


"Pavel" <Atin90@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The reason your USB disks boots as C: is because the partition that
> contains Windows is on NTFS formatted partition and your BIOS does not
> recognize it as a valid bootable partition (MBR will handle that, but
> there is more to it) and it assigns C: to it. You really do not need to
> worry about not being booted as A: drive since the ghost software does not
> care how you booted. There may be some version of BIOS that can force it
> to boot as A: but if it works from C:, why bother.
>
> --
> Pavel
>
>
> <busterama@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1124210019.954510.193360@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>> I've made a memory key bootable. It's booting up dos, but assigning
>> the drive letter of c: for the memory key.
>>
>> I want to use the memory key in lieu of a floppy drive for booting a
>> ghost boot disk with network support.
>>
>> Is there anyway to get the key to come up as a:\ instead of c:\?
>>
>> Do I really need to get it to a:? Will it interfere with imaging to
>> the harddrive c:\?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Buster
>>
>
>