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AS the title states im looking for a disk that can meet the following requirements:

  • Fast load up time, < 1:30s
  • Linux Based
  • Gparted
  • Drive Detection (Unlike BartPE)
  • Norton Ghost
  • Possibly Dos (not really needed).
  • Automatic drive detection (Unlike BartPE - Having to plug in devices within pre-boot)

Has anyone got any suggestions ?

RobertPitt
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Have you tried Parted Magic - http://partedmagic.com/. It includes Gparted, Clonezilla (like Ghost), and a load of other disk tools / utilities (see http://partedmagic.com/programs.html for the full list of programs it includes).

misterjaytee
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Perhaps Hiren's Boot CD? It includes a lot of useful stuff, it is Linux and DOS based.

Contains partition manager tools and imaging software for sure, and a lot more...

Tamara Wijsman
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Your demands are unrealizable, as:

  1. Norton Ghost doesn't exist on Linux
  2. Norton Ghost being commercial, that boot CD will require a pirated version
  3. Linux doesn't contain DOS, except for some emulators
  4. A full-Linux distribution will not boot from a DVD in < 1:30s.
    Even from hard disk it may take a couple of minutes.

For fast boot, and what's more from DVD, you are stuck with a mini-Linux distribution.
You can search your ideal Linux distro on distrowatch.

Or you can Roll Your Own Linux Distro, further explained here.

In a multi-boot DVD Ghost can be one of the options and Knoppix Slimmed another. There are many tutorials for creating such DVDs, or via utilities such as MagicISO.

harrymc
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Go with misterjaytee's suggestion. I use partedmagic to reimage systems to larger drives and to rescue damaged windows systems! A must in your IT toolbox!

danbo
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