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Ghost without a PS2 Mouse

Discussion in 'Other PC Software' started by neumannu47, 2005/01/03.

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  1. 2005/01/03
    neumannu47

    neumannu47 Inactive Thread Starter

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    I am struggling with Ghosting an 80MB drive with Windows XP to a 160MB drive, using Ghost 2003. I'm trying to do a partition to partion copy, but I have a problem. The PS2 mouse port on the motherboard is bad, so I don't have a mouse. (We use a USB mouse when XP is booted.) So, when I try to select the destination partition, none of the keyboard keys will allow me to select it. If I don't click on it, it remains pointing to the source drive. Is there a quick solution, other than getting a new motherboard?

    I am also trying to make the copy with BootItNG, but it is detected an error on the source disk that Windows cannot detect, so I'm a little leary of that.

    FOLLOWUP: Never mind. I moved everything to a new computer, and the keyboard DID allow me to select the other partition. Dunno.
     
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    PeteC

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    neumannu47 - Welcome to the Board :)

    Glad to hear that you sorted your problem and thanks for posting back.

    Under those circumstances a serial mouse is an option.
     
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    Christer

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    The easiest way to do that is to create a Disk to Disk clone. That will transfer all contents from the 80 GB to the 160 GB (if that is what You want).
    Connect the 160 GB as slave, do the DtD but do NOT let Ghost reset/restart the computer. Shut off by the power switch, take out the 80 GB and connect the 160 GB as master, restart.
    (If both HDDs are connected, Windows will mess up the volume identification on the cloned HDD making it not bootable.)
    Now, You can connect the 80 GB as slave and repartition/format.

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    TonyT

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    If you boot w/ a ghost floppy, the usb mouse should work, it does on my laptop and other desktops on my network. Ghost 2003.
     
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    Christer

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    I don't have a USB mouse and don't know if this is the problem but there are two flavors of Ghost Boot Disk:

    PC-DOS > includes mouse support

    MS-DOS (has to be added from a Win98 startup disk) > does not include mouse support

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    TonyT

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    I used to use pcdos when I had the full package installed on win2k. Then I moved to XP and put ghost on a win98 box and made the boot disk. And it has mouse support. I justs did the default disk and did not add any extras to it and it included mouse support automatically. The disks made on win2k did not have mouse support though. Find a 98 box to make the ghost disk from.
     
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