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Norton Ghost - FDISK /MBR why...?
Hi,
I have used Norton Ghost v9 to backup my windows xp pro partition. After I have done a restore, windows boots correctly up, but just after login it reboots or just hangs. However if I next boot up from a win98 install CD and type FDISK /MBR everything is ok the next time I boot to winxp!! Does it exist a simpler way to make restored ghost partitions to correctly run winxp without the FDISK /MBR step? Also which alternatives does it exist to RIS? RIS is too limited in options for me. I want to restore complete images of winxp with all our software and settings. Does it exist alternatives to RIS which let me mirror complete partitions and restore via PXE or boot/run from CD or memorystick? Thanks a lot for comments and tips Jake |
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Norton Ghost - FDISK /MBR why...?
Jake wrote:
Hi, I have used Norton Ghost v9 to backup my windows xp pro partition. After I have done a restore, windows boots correctly up, but just after login it reboots or just hangs. However if I next boot up from a win98 install CD and type FDISK /MBR everything is ok the next time I boot to winxp!! Does it exist a simpler way to make restored ghost partitions to correctly run winxp without the FDISK /MBR step? Also which alternatives does it exist to RIS? RIS is too limited in options for me. I want to restore complete images of winxp with all our software and settings. Does it exist alternatives to RIS which let me mirror complete partitions and restore via PXE or boot/run from CD or memorystick? Thanks a lot for comments and tips Jake I like, and use heavily, Acronis True Image. http://www.freecomputerconsultant.co...rue-image.html I never have to run fdisk/mbr |
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Jake wrote in
: Hi, I have used Norton Ghost v9 to backup my windows xp pro partition. After I have done a restore, windows boots correctly up, but just after login it reboots or just hangs. However if I next boot up from a win98 install CD and type FDISK /MBR everything is ok the next time I boot to winxp!! Does it exist a simpler way to make restored ghost partitions to correctly run winxp without the FDISK /MBR step? Also which alternatives does it exist to RIS? RIS is too limited in options for me. I want to restore complete images of winxp with all our software and settings. Does it exist alternatives to RIS which let me mirror complete partitions and restore via PXE or boot/run from CD or memorystick? Thanks a lot for comments and tips Jake If you backup a PARTITION instead of a DISK, it only stores the data from that partition, not the disk partition structure, etc. When you restore as a partition and not as a disk, you must prepare the disk in some other way (such as FDISK), sizing partitions and making the appropriate partition bootable (active), etc. If you restore as a disk, Ghost should set up the disk during this process - this removes all existing partitions, so you can't do this and keep other data partitions intact. The Ghost 9 that I have comes with a utility named GDISK that can be used instead of FDISK. Your problem of it booting but hanging after login sounds more like a possible error in drive letter assignments or something of that sort (possibly you are restoring to a partition in such a way that partitions do not get assigned the same letters they had before?). If you have moved some folders from the standard places (temp, my documents, etc.), you could get this sort of symptom (hanging) if drive letters have moved. I'm not sure why FDISK /MBR would fix this, though. |
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did you try "fixboot" in command console ?
"z1z1z1" wrote in message ... Jake wrote in : Hi, I have used Norton Ghost v9 to backup my windows xp pro partition. After I have done a restore, windows boots correctly up, but just after login it reboots or just hangs. However if I next boot up from a win98 install CD and type FDISK /MBR everything is ok the next time I boot to winxp!! Does it exist a simpler way to make restored ghost partitions to correctly run winxp without the FDISK /MBR step? Also which alternatives does it exist to RIS? RIS is too limited in options for me. I want to restore complete images of winxp with all our software and settings. Does it exist alternatives to RIS which let me mirror complete partitions and restore via PXE or boot/run from CD or memorystick? Thanks a lot for comments and tips Jake If you backup a PARTITION instead of a DISK, it only stores the data from that partition, not the disk partition structure, etc. When you restore as a partition and not as a disk, you must prepare the disk in some other way (such as FDISK), sizing partitions and making the appropriate partition bootable (active), etc. If you restore as a disk, Ghost should set up the disk during this process - this removes all existing partitions, so you can't do this and keep other data partitions intact. The Ghost 9 that I have comes with a utility named GDISK that can be used instead of FDISK. Your problem of it booting but hanging after login sounds more like a possible error in drive letter assignments or something of that sort (possibly you are restoring to a partition in such a way that partitions do not get assigned the same letters they had before?). If you have moved some folders from the standard places (temp, my documents, etc.), you could get this sort of symptom (hanging) if drive letters have moved. I'm not sure why FDISK /MBR would fix this, though. |
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Norton Ghost - FDISK /MBR why...?
Haggis skrev:
did you try "fixboot" in command console ? It takes *minutes* to get up the recovery console. Win 98 boots from a CD in seconds, but I hoped to get rid of that too... regards Tor |
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Norton Ghost - FDISK /MBR why...?
FreeComputerConsultant.com wrote:
I like, and use heavily, Acronis True Image. http://www.freecomputerconsultant.co...rue-image.html I never have to run fdisk/mbr Does TrueImage have a possibility to read and copy a disk image from a server? Most of all I want to just quick boot a trashed os computer off a CD and have a small applet on the CD copy a disk image from a server share over the network to the local harddrive. Is this possible and if yes with which software? Thanks for comments and hints Jake |
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Norton Ghost - FDISK /MBR why...?
You can mount an image, which assigns a drive letter to the image, copy
files like any other drive. Jake wrote: FreeComputerConsultant.com wrote: I like, and use heavily, Acronis True Image. http://www.freecomputerconsultant.co...rue-image.html I never have to run fdisk/mbr Does TrueImage have a possibility to read and copy a disk image from a server? Most of all I want to just quick boot a trashed os computer off a CD and have a small applet on the CD copy a disk image from a server share over the network to the local harddrive. Is this possible and if yes with which software? Thanks for comments and hints Jake |
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