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Old September 4th 04, 09:49 PM
Kamal
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???

I tried to make a backup of the D:\ on to the G:\ using Norton Ghost. It
gave me an error and was unable to finish the backup. After a reboot I could
not boot windows XP. And now all I get is the windows 98 boot screen with a
C:\

I loaded recovery console and it said windows is on E:\. i tried copying
ntldr and ntdetect to c:\ but still no luck

My Original C:\ is NTFS and D:\ is NTFS and G:\ is fat32

E:\ and F:\ were my cd-rom drives

How can I change E:\ back to C:\ and get windows up and running.

Thanks


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Old September 4th 04, 10:11 PM
GeneR
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???

My Ghost 2003 made me an IBM DOS boot floppy that allows me
to clone one drive to another without starting XP. That's all I use
Ghost for anyway. I make system backup clones. See it at
http://www.photoprojects.net/index10a.html
Gene

Kamal wrote:

I tried to make a backup of the D:\ on to the G:\ using Norton Ghost. It
gave me an error and was unable to finish the backup. After a reboot I could
not boot windows XP. And now all I get is the windows 98 boot screen with a
C:\

I loaded recovery console and it said windows is on E:\. i tried copying
ntldr and ntdetect to c:\ but still no luck

My Original C:\ is NTFS and D:\ is NTFS and G:\ is fat32

E:\ and F:\ were my cd-rom drives

How can I change E:\ back to C:\ and get windows up and running.

Thanks

  #3  
Old September 4th 04, 10:29 PM
joust in jest
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???

Apparently you do not know that Norton Ghost is not a utility provided by
Windows XP. Norton Ghost is a product sold by a company called Symantec --
it is not sold by a company called Microsoft.

For problems with Norton Ghost, feel free to visit a Norton Ghost support
newsgroup or Symantec technical support.

steve

"Kamal" wrote in message
...
I tried to make a backup of the D:\ on to the G:\ using Norton Ghost. It
gave me an error and was unable to finish the backup. After a reboot I

could
not boot windows XP. And now all I get is the windows 98 boot screen with

a
C:\

I loaded recovery console and it said windows is on E:\. i tried copying
ntldr and ntdetect to c:\ but still no luck

My Original C:\ is NTFS and D:\ is NTFS and G:\ is fat32

E:\ and F:\ were my cd-rom drives

How can I change E:\ back to C:\ and get windows up and running.

Thanks




  #4  
Old September 4th 04, 11:29 PM
abc
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???

Norton Ghost 2003 works just fine with Windows XP. I've created and
restored images with it from cdr's, cdrw's and hard drives. Were you
creating an image or cloning one disk to the other? If you were imaging
then there is no reason that Ghost would screw up any drive it was sending
an image to. Now if you were cloning you may have picked the wrong disk.

"Kamal" wrote in message
...
I tried to make a backup of the D:\ on to the G:\ using Norton Ghost. It
gave me an error and was unable to finish the backup. After a reboot I could
not boot windows XP. And now all I get is the windows 98 boot screen with a
C:\

I loaded recovery console and it said windows is on E:\. i tried copying
ntldr and ntdetect to c:\ but still no luck

My Original C:\ is NTFS and D:\ is NTFS and G:\ is fat32

E:\ and F:\ were my cd-rom drives

How can I change E:\ back to C:\ and get windows up and running.

Thanks



  #5  
Old September 5th 04, 12:00 AM
Peter Wilkins
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 21:49:19 +0100, "Kamal"
wrote :

I tried to make a backup of the D:\ on to the G:\ using Norton Ghost. It
gave me an error and was unable to finish the backup. After a reboot I =

could
not boot windows XP. And now all I get is the windows 98 boot screen =

with a
C:\

I loaded recovery console and it said windows is on E:\. i tried copying
ntldr and ntdetect to c:\ but still no luck

My Original C:\ is NTFS and D:\ is NTFS and G:\ is fat32

E:\ and F:\ were my cd-rom drives

How can I change E:\ back to C:\ and get windows up and running.

Thanks

Ghost would not have changed any of your disks or partitions if you
were just backing up not restoring. You shouldn't fiddle with the XP
boot files at all: make sure they are set back to original config..

Sounds as if the autoexec used by Ghost or else the data in the
Virtual Partition created by Ghost is still active, as the backup
aborted. If so, it will always boot into the win98 screen (PC or
MSDOS) until removed. =20

I assume you removed the Ghost boot floppy or CD before rebooting? =20
If not, do so, and you will boot up in XP.

If you did take out the boot floppy or CD, I am not sure how to stop
the PCDOS booting. I suggest you read the handbook to see if it
covers the situation - normally I would say visit the Symantec web
site, but if you can't boot to XP that's a no-brainer.

Good luck.
--=20
Regards,
Peter Wilkins
  #6  
Old September 5th 04, 12:09 AM
David H. Lipman
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???

All those News Groups and the REAL News Group to post this Symantec question (Ghost is not a
Microsoft product) should have been in ...
symantec.customerservice.general

You don't provide any facts. You don't explain if you did a disk-to-disk clone, disk to
image, etc. You don't state what drives "D:" and "G:" are. All those other drives, are
they partitions ? Physical drives ? What ? Nor do you provide any information on the
platform.

This is a ridiculously BAD post. I like to be able to help you but, you have to be able to
help yourself first for someone else to help you.

Dave
{ shaking his head in disbelief }




"Kamal" wrote in message
...
| I tried to make a backup of the D:\ on to the G:\ using Norton Ghost. It
| gave me an error and was unable to finish the backup. After a reboot I could
| not boot windows XP. And now all I get is the windows 98 boot screen with a
| C:\
|
| I loaded recovery console and it said windows is on E:\. i tried copying
| ntldr and ntdetect to c:\ but still no luck
|
| My Original C:\ is NTFS and D:\ is NTFS and G:\ is fat32
|
| E:\ and F:\ were my cd-rom drives
|
| How can I change E:\ back to C:\ and get windows up and running.
|
| Thanks
|
|


  #7  
Old September 5th 04, 12:17 AM
Bob Harris
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???

GHOST 2003 can be run in rwo modes: (1) started from within XP, (2) from a
DOS boot floppy (two disks in 2003).

In the first mode, you "request" what you want done at the windows XP level,
then on a good day, GHOST witll reboot, transfer control to a special hidden
partition, then run in DOS mode, then re-hide that partition, then restart
windows.

However, if something goes wrong during this complex process, the PC will be
left unusable. Fortunately (or unfortunately) this is so common a problem
with GHOST 2003 that Symantec, the makers of GHOST, offer a free download to
fix things. Go to their support website and look for it.

After you get things working right, make a the floppy disk set and in the
future use it to do all GHOST work, except for GHOST Explorer, which can be
run safely from the windows level. I have used the floppy method for years
with GHOST 2000 thorugh 2003, and all were 100% reliable. (By the way, if
you get motivated, it is possible to make a bootable CD from the GHOST
floppy set, but it does take some patience and some 3rd party CD-writing
software.)


"Kamal" wrote in message
...
I tried to make a backup of the D:\ on to the G:\ using Norton Ghost. It
gave me an error and was unable to finish the backup. After a reboot I
could
not boot windows XP. And now all I get is the windows 98 boot screen with
a
C:\

I loaded recovery console and it said windows is on E:\. i tried copying
ntldr and ntdetect to c:\ but still no luck

My Original C:\ is NTFS and D:\ is NTFS and G:\ is fat32

E:\ and F:\ were my cd-rom drives

How can I change E:\ back to C:\ and get windows up and running.

Thanks




  #8  
Old September 5th 04, 03:44 AM
Rich
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???

I was looking up some Symantec software usage for a project and search for
your problem. This is the closest thing I found.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...138830563c8882
56c2200662ecd&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=


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Old September 5th 04, 11:24 PM
GJP
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???


Gee and and I thought this was a "WinXP newuser" group...must be mistaken,
I hope Kamal relizes the error of his ways and post a question that is more
challenging to the likes of David H.Lpman etal.

GJP


"David H. Lipman" wrote in
:

All those News Groups and the REAL News Group to post this Symantec
question (Ghost is not a Microsoft product) should have been in ...
symantec.customerservice.general

You don't provide any facts. You don't explain if you did a
disk-to-disk clone, disk to image, etc. You don't state what drives
"D:" and "G:" are. All those other drives, are they partitions ?
Physical drives ? What ? Nor do you provide any information on the
platform.

This is a ridiculously BAD post. I like to be able to help you but,
you have to be able to help yourself first for someone else to help
you.

Dave
{ shaking his head in disbelief }




"Kamal" wrote in message
...
| I tried to make a backup of the D:\ on to the G:\ using Norton Ghost.
| It gave me an error and was unable to finish the backup. After a
| reboot I could not boot windows XP. And now all I get is the windows
| 98 boot screen with a C:\
|
| I loaded recovery console and it said windows is on E:\. i tried
| copying ntldr and ntdetect to c:\ but still no luck
|
| My Original C:\ is NTFS and D:\ is NTFS and G:\ is fat32
|
| E:\ and F:\ were my cd-rom drives
|
| How can I change E:\ back to C:\ and get windows up and running.
|
| Thanks
|
|



  #10  
Old September 6th 04, 01:11 AM
joust in jest
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???

You are right: this is a "WinXP newuser" group -- the OP has a problem with
Norton Ghost, which is neither Win XP nor a Microsoft product.

steve



GJP wrote in message ...

Gee and and I thought this was a "WinXP newuser" group...must be mistaken,
I hope Kamal relizes the error of his ways and post a question that is

more
challenging to the likes of David H.Lpman etal.

GJP


"David H. Lipman" wrote in
:

All those News Groups and the REAL News Group to post this Symantec
question (Ghost is not a Microsoft product) should have been in ...
symantec.customerservice.general

You don't provide any facts. You don't explain if you did a
disk-to-disk clone, disk to image, etc. You don't state what drives
"D:" and "G:" are. All those other drives, are they partitions ?
Physical drives ? What ? Nor do you provide any information on the
platform.

This is a ridiculously BAD post. I like to be able to help you but,
you have to be able to help yourself first for someone else to help
you.

Dave
{ shaking his head in disbelief }




"Kamal" wrote in message
...
| I tried to make a backup of the D:\ on to the G:\ using Norton Ghost.
| It gave me an error and was unable to finish the backup. After a
| reboot I could not boot windows XP. And now all I get is the windows
| 98 boot screen with a C:\
|
| I loaded recovery console and it said windows is on E:\. i tried
| copying ntldr and ntdetect to c:\ but still no luck
|
| My Original C:\ is NTFS and D:\ is NTFS and G:\ is fat32
|
| E:\ and F:\ were my cd-rom drives
|
| How can I change E:\ back to C:\ and get windows up and running.
|
| Thanks
|
|





  #11  
Old September 6th 04, 04:03 AM
Greg R
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???

I don’t mind answering non-Microsoft products if I know the answer.
However Symantec has terrible support advice. They told me ghost
2003 was to be used only for cloning drives not backing up- how dumb.
I figured out on how to do a partition backup(s) using ghost and a
windows 98se boot disk. It works like a charm. (Yes, you can also
back it up to a cd-r if your cd drive is bootable).

I use this command like for ghost. Pardon the caps

A:\GHOST\GHOST -FDSP -NTIL -SPAN -CRCIGNORE -FRO -Z9

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 17:11:07 -0700, "joust in jest" joust in wrote:


You are right: this is a "WinXP newuser" group -- the OP has a problem with
Norton Ghost, which is neither Win XP nor a Microsoft product.

steve



GJP wrote in message ...

Gee and and I thought this was a "WinXP newuser" group...must be mistaken,
I hope Kamal relizes the error of his ways and post a question that is

more
challenging to the likes of David H.Lpman etal.

GJP


"David H. Lipman" wrote in
:

All those News Groups and the REAL News Group to post this Symantec
question (Ghost is not a Microsoft product) should have been in ...
symantec.customerservice.general

You don't provide any facts. You don't explain if you did a
disk-to-disk clone, disk to image, etc. You don't state what drives
"D:" and "G:" are. All those other drives, are they partitions ?
Physical drives ? What ? Nor do you provide any information on the
platform.

This is a ridiculously BAD post. I like to be able to help you but,
you have to be able to help yourself first for someone else to help
you.

Dave
{ shaking his head in disbelief }




"Kamal" wrote in message
...
| I tried to make a backup of the D:\ on to the G:\ using Norton Ghost.
| It gave me an error and was unable to finish the backup. After a
| reboot I could not boot windows XP. And now all I get is the windows
| 98 boot screen with a C:\
|
| I loaded recovery console and it said windows is on E:\. i tried
| copying ntldr and ntdetect to c:\ but still no luck
|
| My Original C:\ is NTFS and D:\ is NTFS and G:\ is fat32
|
| E:\ and F:\ were my cd-rom drives
|
| How can I change E:\ back to C:\ and get windows up and running.
|
| Thanks
|
|




Greg R







http://www.angelfire.com/in4/computertips/
  #12  
Old September 6th 04, 02:55 PM
GJP
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???

Oh come on...he was using Ghost on a computer running WinXP....where
does one start...believe it is a Ghost problem first or ask a question
here where a number of willing WinXP experts will answer your question
and provide direction. At least one can expect to sort out wether it's
Ghost or WinXp that is the problem....but without insulting remarks
about the quality of the question, which BTW most replies found easy
enough to do.
NewUser could be "new" to computing not just new to WinXP...heck I find
things happening in WinXP that just make me shake my head...like the way
you remove programs from startup ...why the heck did MS decide that
using Msconfig (like in Win98)was too simple and make removing a program
from startup a PITA.

GJP



"joust in jest" joust in wrote in
:

You are right: this is a "WinXP newuser" group -- the OP has a
problem with Norton Ghost, which is neither Win XP nor a Microsoft
product.

steve



GJP wrote in message ...

Gee and and I thought this was a "WinXP newuser" group...must be
mistaken, I hope Kamal relizes the error of his ways and post a
question that is

more
challenging to the likes of David H.Lpman etal.

GJP


"David H. Lipman" wrote in
:

All those News Groups and the REAL News Group to post this Symantec
question (Ghost is not a Microsoft product) should have been in ...
symantec.customerservice.general

You don't provide any facts. You don't explain if you did a
disk-to-disk clone, disk to image, etc. You don't state what
drives "D:" and "G:" are. All those other drives, are they
partitions ? Physical drives ? What ? Nor do you provide any
information on the platform.

This is a ridiculously BAD post. I like to be able to help you
but, you have to be able to help yourself first for someone else
to help you.

Dave
{ shaking his head in disbelief }




"Kamal" wrote in message
...
| I tried to make a backup of the D:\ on to the G:\ using Norton
| Ghost. It gave me an error and was unable to finish the backup.
| After a reboot I could not boot windows XP. And now all I get is
| the windows 98 boot screen with a C:\
|
| I loaded recovery console and it said windows is on E:\. i tried
| copying ntldr and ntdetect to c:\ but still no luck
|
| My Original C:\ is NTFS and D:\ is NTFS and G:\ is fat32
|
| E:\ and F:\ were my cd-rom drives
|
| How can I change E:\ back to C:\ and get windows up and running.
|
| Thanks
|
|






  #13  
Old September 6th 04, 04:23 PM
Malke
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???

GJP GJP wrote:

Oh come on...he was using Ghost on a computer running WinXP....where
does one start...believe it is a Ghost problem first or ask a question
here where a number of willing WinXP experts will answer your question
and provide direction. At least one can expect to sort out wether it's
Ghost or WinXp that is the problem....but without insulting remarks
about the quality of the question, which BTW most replies found easy
enough to do.
NewUser could be "new" to computing not just new to WinXP...heck I
find things happening in WinXP that just make me shake my head...like
the way you remove programs from startup ...why the heck did MS decide
that using Msconfig (like in Win98)was too simple and make removing a
program from startup a PITA.

As an aside, msconfig is available in XP and removing items from Startup
is quite easy. Go to StartRun and type "msconfig" without the quotes.

Malke
--
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
  #14  
Old September 7th 04, 05:08 AM
Al Smith
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???

I don’t mind answering non-Microsoft products if I know the answer.
However Symantec has terrible support advice. They told me ghost
2003 was to be used only for cloning drives not backing up- how dumb.


Symantic recently purchased Drive Image, a superior product to
Ghost, so they may intend to reduce the role of Ghost in future
and switch all their backup sales to Drive Image.
  #15  
Old September 7th 04, 09:09 PM
Rock
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Default Norton Ghost 2003???

Al Smith wrote:

I don’t mind answering non-Microsoft products if I know the answer.
However Symantec has terrible support advice. They told me ghost
2003 was to be used only for cloning drives not backing up- how dumb.



Symantic recently purchased Drive Image, a superior product to Ghost, so
they may intend to reduce the role of Ghost in future and switch all
their backup sales to Drive Image.


Actually they have incorporated Drive Image technology into the new
version of Ghost. It now requires the .Net Framework. I would guess
that, if a product is going away it will be Drive Image. Symantec has a
track record of killing off products they buy.

 




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