Thanks for the input so far on this.
Suffering from a bad knee injury keeping me immobile even for computer use for
weeks, the status now is:
The laptop is still an HP G62 i3 dual core w/4GB RAM, and 320GB SATA 7.200 HDD.
BIOS is upgraded to latest version. HP support isn't helpfull, to say the least.
Booting from a normally usable floppy on CD (floppy disk emulation), it only
generates this exact error message:
"Type the name of the command interpreter (e.g., C:\WINDOWS.COMMAND.COM)
A>"
Using the Redirect command at this stage is new to me, so here I am completely
blank...???
Well, after getting an external USB floppy drive ('only' 45 US bucks here in DK...), the laptop now boots properly from a floppy disk, except no CD/DVD drive is detected.
I tried this with no less than eleven diferent boot disks, and all were no-go. "The CD driver isn't loaded" is the common error message.
The second - and maybe most important thing - is that while it's possible to start ghost.exe from this USB floppy drive, the error message is "...no drive to clone
(11093)..." appears. Nice :)
This could be caused by either the fact that a CD driver is not loaded, or that
a 2003 Ghost is not supporting newer systems. A Google search didn't bring me
any closer.
Any solutions?
Any similar clone programs out there?
To say it straight, forget about Linux's dd, and Acronis in this case, as I
want absolute reliablity, and neither do serve that.
I know Symantec is working on a new version of Ghost that works within Win7, so
this could be a common problem?
Any suggestions?
If SATA's the problem (seems obvious), where do I find a boot floppy for
this??? (bootdisk.com doesn't fix this)
Thanks.
/soren
