Boot from partition

[agibsonsw]

Hello.
I have created a partition (F: boot). How can I make it boot to this partition please? (This is a little outside my normal area!)

What I need to achieve is to cause it to boot here, then run a small script, probably a batch file, to give a list of choices for running Norton Ghost images for, Office 2007, Office 2010, etc.. about five choices. I presume I can create the menu from an autoexec.bat file?

(I know that Norton Ghost is no longer supported..)

Any help or suggestions will be appreciated. Andy

[DaveA]

First of all what Operating System do you have on the "F Drive"?

[agibsonsw]

Hello. There is no OS on the F: drive. Norton Ghost images with Windows and Office versions are on the D: drive. I only want the F: drive to hold a batch file which allows the user to select which Office version they want. This would then trigger the load of the correct image from the D: drive.

[DaveA]

Then you do not want it to boot to the F drive, but to run a batch file on start up Windows.
But the installed images on the F drive would need to include an OS so that the correct registry entries are available to the different versions of Office. Then it would require a restart then you would be chasing your own tail.

[agibsonsw]

Thank you. Looks like we're outta luck.

[Rudi]

In my previous company the tech guy has a Symantec Ghost bootable stiffie that he used to boot up any PC with and then in command prompt he could access a network drive and select from various images to rewrite the hard drive. So the questions here are:

1. Do you have a bootable flash drive created via Norton Ghost to boot a computer into?
2. Do you have access to a network to store the images? (Alternative, store the images on an external hard drive and point the command prompt to this drive for the rewrite.)