Solved Norton Ghost cannot select backup drive

[Retiredbill]

I recently changed computers from an XP to a Win 7 home premium, 64 bit. I have used Ghost on both machines and have an XP backup drive that I would like to recover some files from. I opened Ghost and clicked on "TASKS", "OPTIONS", then external drives. The drive I want to use was listed. I selected it, clicked on apply and clicked OK. I then went to "recover my files" and it still had the WIN 7 backups listed even though that drive is not powered up. Any suggestions?

 

[Jams]

Use this software "Acronis Disk Director Tools 11", it's better than Norton Ghost..This software cover all your requirement..

 

[Retiredbill]

Are you saying that Acronis will read and use Ghost backups?

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Are you saying that Acronis will read and use Ghost backups?

I seriously doubt that is what he meant.

You might get a comment about Ghost, but it is rarely mentioned on these forums.

Most here use Macrium, Acronis True Image, EaseUS Todo Backup, or the built-in Windows 7 tool.

 

[Jams]

Are you saying that Acronis will read and use Ghost backups?

Yes, just try it these both software functionality and backup file extension are same so u can recover your back up from acronise but you should use acronic from acronic booable CD..

 

[Retiredbill]

I previously used Acronis True Image on my XP but changed to Ghost (I don't remember exzctly why). I used the upgrade function on the web page and downloaded the Win 7 version. This version is a few years old. I created a boot disk but when I booted it, it did not start up the mouse. The arrow keys didn't work either so I had to abandon the effort. I will stay with Ghost for the time being. I found out that I couls use Windows explorer and bring up my old backup drive and click on the backup that interests me and I can get a Windows Explorere veriosn of all the files using Ghost's browser action automatically. Consequently, I can browse, copy, move or delete files or folders at my leisure. Thank you very much for your help. I'll download macrium and see how it works.