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No, I mean a real DOS envirenment. I boot from a 64 Mega Byte (yes, it's that small) USB thumbdrive into MSDOS (Win 98 version). I believe my boot image is probably actually from an old 600MB HDD I once ran with on a AMD 486DX CPU. It shows up as a hard drive instead of a floppy. I do have several floppy boot images as well (*.img), but I do remember copying the MBR from a HDD and putting it on a thumbdrive once upon a time. Also I've found running Ghost and other programs work better on thumbdrive, because some programs want to save stuff to the boot drive, and CD-ROM would cause an error (I forget which exact program I used that did that). I just used Ghost32.exe on my Windows 10 64-Bit PC to Ghost my Laptop drive partitions the other day. I just ran it as a normal program inside Windows 10 GUI, no Dosbox or anything. Lucky for me it is a small laptop HDD (250GB), so it works fine. Unfortunately another drive I have has Win10 and it is a 2TB Drive. The partition is less than 1TB, but Ghost says it's -something, a negative number. When I tried backing that partition up, it just saved a 6kb sized file with nothing but the drive location, drive name, and the partition was named "unknown", no files. My understanding from reading the previous posts is that I would need to run Ghost2003 on a Windows 98 desktop to use VFAT.Vxd to be able to backup the partitions on a 2TB drive.

I'm not sure if the VFAT.VxD patch will work under DOS (from Win 98), it probably only works when running Windows 98 in GUI? My USB is running the Win98SE version of DOS.

Now to see if we can get Ghost2003 to work with GPT partitions... Probably not an option. Following

Okay, I found this link so hopefully it will work... https://vintage2000.org/windows/windows_98 It has a zip file of "Rloew 95/98/ME Patches Bundle"

The link to the VFAT.VxD patch is broken. Anyone have a new link or the required files available to download? I have a 2 TB HDD with windows that I want to backup with Ghost 2003. I have my trusty USB bootable thumb drive that always works, except for with this 2TB HDD. So far Google has not been my friend. Thank you. I will gladly save an image of my Ghost thumb drive (boots as a HDD) for anyone who wants it. It's just under 10 MB in size.

Thanks! Unfortunately my coding isn't that advanced yet. All I can do is compile code, not write it yet. Someday I want to learn. I have Borland C++ 5.5 FREE version. I came up with a quick-and-dirty method of getting the ProductID from a running installation. I use a MSDOS batch file that saves the HKLM\SOFTWARE\MOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT registry key to a .reg file. Then I can later examine it, and view the whole ProductID showing the version of windows installed,service patch, oem SLP info, etc. I finally (after many hours experimenting with other peoples code) got my batch file to save the name as a user input variable with date and time. For some reason the command line in XP won't accept the code, but it works when I just run the batch file. I think it has tho do with echoing all the text in the XP command line environment. Anyone intersted in my batch file? I won't post it unless you are.

Bezalel or anyone else, Do you know how to show the Product ID of the installation? EXAMPLE: find XP Product ID from Digital ProductID or some other way and output PID, like 55274-OEM-0011903-00102 for Dell? I'm just trying to be able to get the XP PID from the rigistry, a reg file or other files, instead of having to run MGA.EXE or something else. Thanks.

(edit) UPDATE!!! Zone Alarm Internet Suite was crashing RyanVM and nLite. Probably good-ol' True Vector doing its thing as usual. After I uninstalled Zone Alarm, RyanVM work flawlessly (unplug your internet first!) . I slipstreamed SP3 into my XP sorce folder on my HD. It just won't work with Zone Alarm, even when permissions for RyanVM are set to "SUPER". I'll try nLite next, but I bet it works now! (end edit) (end update) I've used nLite and RyanVM plenty of times. NOW, the last few days I've been trying to integrate a fresh XP Home SP0 with SP3, but need to slipstream SP2 first (supposedly). I can't even slipstream SP2 or SP3 with nLite, or RyanVM now! They both freeze after the "extracting service pack" part and never get to the actual slipstreaming. It freezes the whole PC and I have to manualy reboot (pull the plug or use the power switch). (Edited for length)

You can clear this post guys if you want, but I have an issue where I wanted to Contact the forum, but I get the security code message: You are at this page because you loaded the JavaScript free version of reCAPTCHA, but it looks like you have JavaScript. We need to prevent this for security reasons. If you are testing out the JavaScript-free version, turn off JavaScript in your browser. I disabled ALL Java, but to no avail. No way someone could get their password remider if the JAVA issue is there. Maybe my XP install is mangled, since it is "PRE-MSFN" Unattend install quality (ie, SLP OEM). I wanted to redo it all anyway, so I guess I will now. I was just trying to log in, but ended up doing the old "delete-cookies-remove-files-clear-history" trick I discovered for you guys way back when Obviously that trick works, because here I am posting. Been awile since I was on here, but I'm back. Take care.