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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | | |
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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 |
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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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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 | | |
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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 | | |
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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/ |
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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!" |
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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. |
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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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