On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 03:29:17 -0500, Paul wrote:

You're not a very good thread reader, are you dood ?

I already patiently explained that a copy of "ghost.exe"
is located as a *hidden* file. The originator of that download
was very clever - and I noticed the download file was a little
too big for its own good, implying something was hiding in it.

Run a copy of Piriform Recuva against that floppy. It will rate
the recovery possibilities as "excellent" and it will spot that
single large file. That's what's in my picture. Recuva at work.

https://s8.postimg.org/uu1l1wekl/party_time.gif

This is the message I posted, with the good news.

http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi...nt-email.me%3E

If you have written *anything* to that floppy since the
winimage unpack step, you'll have to re-generate the floppy
again. The copy of _host.exe is only good if you
haven't been messing around with the floppy. When Recuva
recovers the file, copy the file to your hard drive,
*then* copy it back to the floppy, into the Ghost folder.
Don't forget to fix the file name of course.
Then, run off and boot the (repaired) floppy.

I haven't tested the output of that step, as I was content
just to prove my sense of human nature had not erred.

So basically there is a big 1MB file ghost.exe hiding
in plain sight on the floppy.

Paul

I did not quite understand what you were saying back then, and it's been
several weeks since. However I did restore that file. Now I know why the
EXE was so much larger than what was installed to the floppy.

If you recall, I bought the Ghost 2003 CD on ebay, but I was not having
much luck with the program installed to my HDD from that CD. For some
reason, Ghost wanted to change some sort of USB drivers or something
which I could not comprehend. (I had both of these 2.5" drives plugged
into USB, via adaptors.

Anyhow, I did not understand what it wanted to do, and I bet my
installed drivers are newer than the ones on 2003 Ghost, I did not want
to tamper with my working OS, on the computer I was using to make the
clone.

Anyhow, as I said, I used Macrium to finally create the clone that
worked. Originally I was told to not do cloning when another HDD is
booting, but I was booted to XP on C:, and cloned D: to E: (those two
were connected via USB).

In the end it all worked.

(Note, Ghost.EXE does not run in XP. I guess it MUST be booted from DOS.
I have a feeling that had I dont it that way, I would not been able to
access those drives via USB. I dont think USB ports can be used on DOS.