Norton Ghost restore in Win 7

[zigzag3143]

I've got one

I did something moderately stupid that killed 7201. In order to revive the box I tried to restore a N Ghost image. Booted from NG recovery F12 to boot order. Boot from CD (Cd is bootible) and windows wants to do a recovery. Ok let windows do it maybe it can recover. Win does its thing and nada. So I re-do and try to restore from the ghost back up and cant. My only options are start win normally or do a recovery. Cant get into ghost cd.

Yeah dont do stupid things, and yeah I hate Ghost too but. Any ideas?

TIA

Ken

 

[Muad Dib]

Hmmmm... is has been a while.... I gave up the Ghost long ago....:roflmao:
I switched to Acronis True Image for reasons like this.

The first thing I might try it to boot into the BIOS Setup and change the boot order there to boot first from the CD/DVD drive (Norton Ghost CD is bootable right?). This will hopefully bypass the F12 boot menu and go straight to the Ghost.

If that succeeds you should first examine your partitions and Ghost Images. Verify the Ghost image you want to restore from.

Then decide... should you first image what you still have to another Ghost image file BEFORE attempting the restore? Your call....


Try that first.. if you have not already moved on... after all you posted 7 hours ago....

 

[zigzag3143]

Hmmmm... is has been a while.... I gave up the Ghost long ago....:roflmao:
I switched to Acronis True Image for reasons like this.

The first thing I might try it to boot into the BIOS Setup and change the boot order there to boot first from the CD/DVD drive (Norton Ghost CD is bootable right?). This will hopefully bypass the F12 boot menu and go straight to the Ghost.

If that succeeds you should first examine your partitions and Ghost Images. Verify the Ghost image you want to restore from.

Then decide... should you first image what you still have to another Ghost image file BEFORE attempting the restore? Your call....


Try that first.. if you have not already moved on... after all you posted 7 hours ago....

Maud dib
hey. Acronis is great at what they do but if you search SF you will see that both aconis, and ghost have failed to restore on different win 7 installs. Check the thread for options

Ken

 

[Muad Dib]

Maud dib
hey. Acronis is great at what they do but if you search SF you will see that both aconis, and ghost have failed to restore on different win 7 installs. Check the thread for options

Ken

I did see at least one of the posts re Acronis. And I did reply to it.

Acronis True Image Home V11 has been working fine for me. I have not tried a clone operation. But other than that I have not had any problems....

Of course I can't get my Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 to work while everyone else seems to....

 

[Muad Dib]

Maud dib
hey. Acronis is great at what they do but if you search SF you will see that both aconis, and ghost have failed to restore on different win 7 installs. Check the thread for options

Ken

Well... did you get your system restored with the Ghost boot disk?

 

[zigzag3143]

Well... did you get your system restored with the Ghost boot disk?

MD

Nope Its still busted and I'll get to it right after the next win 7 is leaked

K

 

[Muad Dib]

MD

Nope Its still busted and I'll get to it right after the next win 7 is leaked

K

Yup..... I am waiting for the 7666 leak... :devil2:

 

[Burgurne]

I use Norton Ghost ver 14 this way:
Have a "prime" install with my everyday use version of Windows 7. On another HD I have a barebone install of Windows 7 along with Norton ghost ver 14. When I want to make a backup or a restore of my everyday Windows 7, I choose from the mobo's bootselection to boot the barebone install. Starts Ghost when booting is finished, and now my "everyday Windows 7" is drive D: I then can make a complete backup or restore of drive D: to/from another partition (on same HD as the barebone system).
That has worked without any troubble since Windows 2k (earlier versions of Ghost in earlier days )

 

[zigzag3143]

Ghost Restore

I use Norton Ghost ver 14 this way:
Have a "prime" install with my everyday use version of Windows 7. On another HD I have a barebone install of Windows 7 along with Norton ghost ver 14. When I want to make a backup or a restore of my everyday Windows 7, I choose from the mobo's bootselection to boot the barebone install. Starts Ghost when booting is finished, and now my "everyday Windows 7" is drive D: I then can make a complete backup or restore of drive D: to/from another partition (on same HD as the barebone system).
That has worked without any troubble since Windows 2k (earlier versions of Ghost in earlier days )

Well I resolved my restore problem. It wasn't Ghost it was a failing dvd player. The way you use ghost is an interesting idea. I do something similar. On a clean install I add all the requisite apps and others. I then Do a full BU. I can then install and remove anything I want. If the OS starts acting up I restore the clean vanilla. It keeps the size down etc. I am trying another BU utility as well. Its called Macrium Reflect. It includes BartPE, and Linux boots uses much less resources than ghost and is free. I am thinking about using both. Its an on going project.

I wanted to say thanks for replying and a great idea as well

If you want me to I will keep you aprised on the progress

Thanks Again

Ken

 

[SIW2]

Hi zigzag,

I have been using Macrium Reflect for a while - very small and and fast and has always worked for me.

 

[zigzag3143]

macrium reflect

Hi zigzag,

I have been using Macrium Reflect for a while - very small and and fast and has always worked for me.

I think I got the tip from you, and its awesome. Im a sware junky for things like this. If you find other thins like it keep me in mind.

Thanks again

Ken

 

[SIW2]

LOL - yeah on another thread - I had forgotten.

 

[jimbo45]

I did see at least one of the posts re Acronis. And I did reply to it.

Acronis True Image Home V11 has been working fine for me. I have not tried a clone operation. But other than that I have not had any problems....

Of course I can't get my Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 to work while everyone else seems to....

Acronis for me is also fine but Acronis True Image workstation doesn't work in W7 build 7201 which is why I reverted back to build 7137.

Note Acronis True Image workstation is the small office version - it's different to True Image Home V11 which does still appear to work in build 7201.

Hopefully it will work again in build 7230 (when leaked)

cheers
jimbo

 

[Sven]

I use Norton Ghost ver 14 this way:
Have a "prime" install with my everyday use version of Windows 7. On another HD I have a barebone install of Windows 7 along with Norton ghost ver 14. When I want to make a backup or a restore of my everyday Windows 7, I choose from the mobo's bootselection to boot the barebone install. Starts Ghost when booting is finished, and now my "everyday Windows 7" is drive D: I then can make a complete backup or restore of drive D: to/from another partition (on same HD as the barebone system).
That has worked without any troubble since Windows 2k (earlier versions of Ghost in earlier days )

That's allmost the same I do. I got a eSATA drive as birthday-present 1½ years ago, and on this I installed WindowsXP along with Norton Ghost (mine is ver 12 though). That eSATA is ONLY connected to my PC when doing backups/restores, so no virus can slip in, as this installation is not online. I'm then 100% sure that no virus can infiltrate my backups, and I never has to rely on a DVD-boot to restore anything.

BTW anybody knows the difference between ver 12 and ver 14 of Norton Ghost?

 

[BuzWeaver]

I use Acronis, Norton Ghost is just to unreliable.

 

[Muad Dib]

Acronis for me is also fine but Acronis True Image workstation doesn't work in W7 build 7201 which is why I reverted back to build 7137.

Note Acronis True Image workstation is the small office version - it's different to True Image Home V11 which does still appear to work in build 7201.

Hopefully it will work again in build 7230 (when leaked)

cheers
jimbo

I do hope your right. ATI Home V11 does everything I need or want in a backup....