Norton Ghost not seeing my C drive to backup

[Lawrence M. Seldin, CMC, CPC]

I have Win2k with SP4. I just got Norton Ghost 2003.

When I try to "backup" using Ghost, it does not see my C drive (which happens to be in NTFS format".

So my "source drive" is not showing up.

What is the problem.

I use a Micron Notebook.

Thanks much,


Lawrence M. Seldin, CMC, CPC
Author of POWER TIPS FOR THE APPLE NEWTON and INTRODUCTION TO CSP
Author of RECRUITSOURCE PEOPLESOFT EXAM and RECRUITSOURCE SAP/R3 EXAM


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[David H. Lipman]

Do you know how to use Ghost ?

It has NO problems seeing a NTFS partition (unless you are using a PC/MS-DOS Boot Disk and
are trying to restore a Ghost Image [*.GHO] to a platform and the image was stored on a NTFS
partition.)

Did you create a Ghost Boot Disk ?

How are you performing said backup ?

Have you considered that this is OT and should have been posted to:
symantec.customerservice.general

Dave



| I have Win2k with SP4. I just got Norton Ghost 2003.
|
| When I try to "backup" using Ghost, it does not see my C drive (which happens to be in
NTFS format".
|
| So my "source drive" is not showing up.
|
| What is the problem.
|
| I use a Micron Notebook.
|
| Thanks much,
|
|
| Lawrence M. Seldin, CMC, CPC
| Author of POWER TIPS FOR THE APPLE NEWTON and INTRODUCTION TO CSP
| Author of RECRUITSOURCE PEOPLESOFT EXAM and RECRUITSOURCE SAP/R3 EXAM
|
|
| NOTE: To send me an email, remove TAKEOUT from my email address: (e-mail address removed)
|
| NOTE: My web home page: www.seldin.net

 

[Lawrence M. Seldin, CMC, CPC]

Do you know how to use Ghost ?

It has NO problems seeing a NTFS partition (unless you are using a PC/MS-DOS Boot Disk and
are trying to restore a Ghost Image [*.GHO] to a platform and the image was stored on a NTFS
partition.)

Did you create a Ghost Boot Disk ?

Since you are familiar with Ghost, maybe you could answer these questions.

I have a C drive on my notebook and an F drive that is portable. What I am looking for is a way to
restore my C drive when I travel, if it crashes. I carry my F drive with me.

Is this something Ghost does? If this is the case, what is the steps to do this.


In Norton Ghost, I went through the wizard to "backup my computer to an image drive".
I typed next:

It asks me what partition do I want to backup. However, my C drive is not seen.

What steps should I be doing to get this to work? I already went to the Norton Web site,
and did not find where to set up a source drive. However, they mentioned what to do, if the
destination drive was not seen. However, that is not my problem.

Thanks much,


Lawrence M. Seldin, CMC, CPC
Author of POWER TIPS FOR THE APPLE NEWTON and INTRODUCTION TO CSP
Author of RECRUITSOURCE PEOPLESOFT EXAM and RECRUITSOURCE SAP/R3 EXAM


NOTE: To send me an email, remove TAKEOUT from my email address: (e-mail address removed)

NOTE: My web home page: www.seldin.net

 

[David H. Lipman]

| >>>Do you know how to use Ghost ?
| >
| >It has NO problems seeing a NTFS partition (unless you are using a PC/MS-DOS Boot Disk
and
| >are trying to restore a Ghost Image [*.GHO] to a platform and the image was stored on a
NTFS
| >partition.)
| >
| >Did you create a Ghost Boot Disk ?
|
|
| Since you are familiar with Ghost, maybe you could answer these questions.


I certainly am. I use Ghost 2003 personally and use Ghost Enterprise professionally.


| I have a C drive on my notebook and an F drive that is portable. What I am looking for is
a way to
| restore my C drive when I travel, if it crashes. I carry my F drive with me.
|
| Is this something Ghost does? If this is the case, what is the steps to do this.


You carry a drive with you ? USB or FireWire ?
If so, you create a Ghost Boot Disk with the Norton Ghost Boot Wizard. Create a "Standard
Ghost Boot Disk"
Boot from Ghost Boot Disk with the external drive connected to to the notebook. Choose
Local and then perform a Drive to Image backup. This will create a compressed image of the
notebook on the external hard disk.

Dave

 

[Lawrence M. Seldin, CMC, CPC]

You carry a drive with you ? USB or FireWire ?

I am not sure. I have a CMS PCMCIA slot that the drive plugs into.

If so, you create a Ghost Boot Disk with the Norton Ghost Boot Wizard. Create a "Standard
Ghost Boot Disk"
Boot from Ghost Boot Disk with the external drive connected to to the notebook. Choose
Local and then perform a Drive to Image backup. This will create a compressed image of the
notebook on the external hard disk.

Dave,

I still think, that the software does not see my C drive, because when I select source from the Gui,
no driive is showing up. Is this normal?

TIA,


Lawrence M. Seldin, CMC, CPC
Author of POWER TIPS FOR THE APPLE NEWTON and INTRODUCTION TO CSP
Author of RECRUITSOURCE PEOPLESOFT EXAM and RECRUITSOURCE SAP/R3 EXAM


NOTE: To send me an email, remove TAKEOUT from my email address: (e-mail address removed)

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