Boot Ghost using USB

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@SionSchool wrote:

I work in a school network environment and have just purchased a Dimension 5150.  I want to Ghost an existing hard drive onto the Dimension.

 

My usual method of ghosting is to use a TCP/TCP connection, booting to Ghost from floppy.  The Dimension has no floppy drive.  My second approach is to install the first hard drive in the new machine and copy from one drive to the other.  I can't use this method because the Dimension's hard drive fittings and power supply fittings do not match my existing hard drive.

 

I notice in the BIOS that there is an option to boot from USB.  I have used Ghost to copy the boot files to a USB flash drive but I get a "No system disk" error. 

 

Is it possible to use this method, if so how?

If it is not possible, how else should I be doing this?

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Using the Advanced Forum Search on the bottom of this page, you can quite easily find the answer to this often asked question.

 

Your 2nd approach, moving the disk, works fine.  As is posted all over these forums, just move the disk to the middle connector of the CD/DVD cable temporarily and move away. 

 

However, if you're trying to Ghost/copy an existing BOOT drive to become the BOOT drive of the new computer (sounds like it because you are trying to boot from the usb drive), that not only won't work but is potentially in violation of the EULA's of your software packages.