- How to burn .gho file to cd install#
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- How to burn .gho file to cd windows#
How to burn .gho file to cd iso#
Strange, huh? I can only guess that some are hard links (which I didn't know were possible under iso 9660). The strange thing is that several of the files had file sizes in excess of 600MB! Actually they came as part of a recovery disk that Toshiba (stay away from Toshiba, guys) sent with my laptop.Īs to doing ls -l to see which file actually had the data, I tried that. I wish that I had created the images myself. Just came to my mind five minutes ago and I figured that maybe it would worth to try it. It has a DOS based part, I think that, at least that, should run ok under wine or dosemu. I never tried anything like that, but maybe you can run ghost under wine. Of course, if it is compressed then it's a different story. Mount -o loop,offset=39081 /path/to/partition.bin /mnt/tempĪnd then you can pull the data off the mount point.
Then, you can mount the partition as a loopback device with an offset. If there is only one file, then you can avoid the cat part (and then you don't need harddrive space to do it) Usually, when I have used ghost, it has given me a lot of files like 1.ghs, 2.ghs, etc. The offset would be 0x98A0 + 9 = 0x98A9 - using a calculator to convert 0x98A9 from hex to decimal gives 39081 Then, that string is offset 3 bytes in front of the start of the partition, so go back 3 bytes from there, and that is your offset.Ġ00098A0 20 20 20 00 02 01 00 00 20 EB 52 90 4E 54 46 53. So what I recommend doing is searching for "NTFS" or "MSWIN", depending on if it is FAT or NTFS (searching for both won't hurt). Here is the beginnning of my NTFS partition.
Here is the beginning of my FAT32 partition. So that you can compare, here is an example fat32 partition and a NTFS partition. Now, once you hexedit the header.bin (so that it doesn't overload the hexeditor - some load the whole file into memory), you will need to look for signatures.
You will have to do an ls -l and see which file actually contains data (the one that is hundreds of megabytes) I'm not sure if the gho or ghs is correct. Head -c 1000000 image_file.gho > header.bin You may want to extract the first megabyte or so from the file: You can try ghex2, hexedit (console), and probably a number of other ones. I have had different experiences with many editors for things like this. I recommend using a hex editor to do this. Most likely, unless you used compression when you created the ghost images, they will be stored in the file, at a certain offset. Anyone know anything different? Anyone have any idea about a work around?įirst of all, it would be easier to use ghost to do this, since that's probably how you created them. Thing would be different is more people had this need hehe, surely someone could reverse it to make a kernel fs module, or something, but as far as I know such a thing does not exist for ghost files. I doubt that thing has changed, since the ghost format is propietary, close, and symantec is not willing to provide the specifications. I remember someone looking for the same thing in these forums, and AFAIK he never got a solution.
How to burn .gho file to cd install#
I would also need to install the required file onto the partition that is reserved for Windows. I'd like to mount these files so that I can browse them to see which one to install. After browsing the installation CD, I believe that the OS resides in one of several.
How to burn .gho file to cd windows#
I've got Linux running decently one my laptop (still working on WPA, but that's another issue.).Īnyway, I'd like to put Windows back on it, but it came with one f those crappy OEM versions of windows which will format the entire drive if I install it normally.
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