I have an HP Pavilion Notebook with a USB 2.0 PCMIA card attached to an external Iomega HDD drive, becuase my onboard usb 1.1 ports are excrucatingly slow. Until reently, I was unable to use Norton Ghost to image my notebook's hard drive after it restarted in DOS. I have now been able to do it successfully with the instructions that floow below, when using Ghost from 2 floppy disks. I wish to thank kurtlinux from the Experts Exchange for persevering with me and helping to solve this thorny issue. I hope this works as successfully for you in your particular system.
---Nick Baldo
GETTING GHOST TO WORK THROUGH A LAPTOP USB 2.0 PCMIA CARD TO AN EXTERNAL DRIVE
1. MAKE GHOST FLOPPIES FROM NORTON GHOST UTILITIES
-USB support, Advanced button, all drivers
-Let it quick format the floppies or you will interrupt it's progress
2. DOWNLOAD HIMEM.SYS FROM INTERNET
-If you are using XP, you cannot use it's himem.sys file, so go to
www.bootdisk.com
-Download the Windows 98SE botdisk, extract it to a formatted floppy
-Copy himem.sys to your Ghost floppy
3. DOWNLOAD THE CORRECT USBASPI.SYS AND DI1000DD.SYS FROM THE INTERNET
-Go To
http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/download/usb-dos.htm and go to bottom of page
-Download both kxlrw40an.exe and mhairudos.zip
-Extract kxlrw40an.exe first, then copy its USBASPI.SYS (1/26/02) to the floppy
-Extract mhairudos.zip, then copy DI1000DD.SYS to the floppy
-Do not copy the USBASPI.SYS from mhairudos.zip since it is older
4. EDIT CONFIG.SYS ON THE FLOPPY
-Replace the existing config.sys lines with th following:
[menu]
menuitem=FROMFLPY, This computer was started from a Ghost boot disk
menuitem=FROMCD, This computer was started from a Ghost bootable CD
[FROMFLPY]
[FROMCD]
[COMMON]
LASTDRIVE=Z
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS
FILES=40
BUFFERS=20
STACKS=9,256
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICEHIGH=USBASPI.SYS /v /w /e
DEVICEHIGH=DI1000DD.SYS
5. NOW REBOOT AND CROSS YOUR FINGERS
-Enjoy
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