Failed Ghost Restore

[jimi]

My Ghost 2003 restore failed while looking for "portion 2 of an image".
/ "Norton Ghost needs to open an image span"

This of course leaves the system in a totally unusable state...

How can I create a bootable CD that will allow me to try and recover
from other Ghost images? (Specifcally what needs to go on it?)

This system runs two SATA drives with RAID0. I know from past
experience, I have to run the 'live update' to get Ghost 2003 to speak
to SATA drives. Having done that, can I make "disk recovery" disks on
one system, to use on the failed one? At this point, neither system
even has a floppy drive, but I can certainly add one temporarily.

tia

 

[Rod Speed]

My Ghost 2003 restore failed while looking for "portion 2 of
an image". / "Norton Ghost needs to open an image span"

This of course leaves the system in a totally unusable state...

How can I create a bootable CD that will allow me to try and recover
from other Ghost images? (Specifcally what needs to go on it?)

The distribution CD should be all you need.

This system runs two SATA drives with RAID0.

That config isnt supported with Ghost 2003.

I know from past experience, I have to run the 'live update' to get
Ghost 2003 to speak to SATA drives. Having done that, can I
make "disk recovery" disks on one system, to use on the failed one?
Yes.

At this point, neither system even has a floppy
drive, but I can certainly add one temporarily.

Ghost 9 and 10 should allow you to restore Ghost 2003 images.

 

[jimi]

Ghost 9 and 10 should allow you to restore Ghost 2003 images.

Are the Ghost 9 / 10 CD's bootable? If i have to buy one online and
download it, can I get an ISO image, or will it be an EXE zip?

Cant I build a bootable CD that has Ghost 2003 on it?? I'm just not
exactly clear what the minimum files are. I think Ghost.exe executes
in DOS, by itself I assume???

 

[Peter]

Ghost 9 and 10 should allow you to restore Ghost 2003 images.

Are the Ghost 9 / 10 CD's bootable? If i have to buy one online and
download it, can I get an ISO image, or will it be an EXE zip?

Cant I build a bootable CD that has Ghost 2003 on it?? I'm just not
exactly clear what the minimum files are. I think Ghost.exe executes
in DOS, by itself I assume???

Use ghost32.exe instead (version 8.3 - 8.0).

 

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed wrote

Are the Ghost 9 / 10 CD's bootable?
Yes.

If i have to buy one online and> download it,
can I get an ISO image, or will it be an EXE zip?
Dunno.

Cant I build a bootable CD that has Ghost 2003 on it??

It can be done, but its not completely straight forward.

Create an image to CD, that CD will be bootable.
You dont need to write more than the first CD if
it will need more than one CD. Just boot that CD
and tell it to restore your other image.

I'm just not exactly clear what the minimum files are.

You dont need to worry about that if you make the bootable CD that way.

I think Ghost.exe executes in DOS, by itself I assume???

Yes, but there is more than just that on the CD.

Ghost32.exe will probably restore the original image too.

 

[Anna]

My Ghost 2003 restore failed while looking for "portion 2 of an image".
/ "Norton Ghost needs to open an image span"

This of course leaves the system in a totally unusable state...

How can I create a bootable CD that will allow me to try and recover
from other Ghost images? (Specifcally what needs to go on it?)

This system runs two SATA drives with RAID0. I know from past
experience, I have to run the 'live update' to get Ghost 2003 to speak
to SATA drives. Having done that, can I make "disk recovery" disks on
one system, to use on the failed one? At this point, neither system
even has a floppy drive, but I can certainly add one temporarily.

tia

jimi:
My comments refer to Symantec's Norton Ghost 2003 program...

First of all, ensure that you're using the latest "build" (version) of that
program, i.e., Ghost 2003.793. If you're not, then use Symantec's LiveUpdate
utility included in the program to download/install that build.

2. There's no basic problem that I'm aware of re Ghost 2003 "speak(ing) to
SATA drives". We use the program nearly every day to directly clone the
contents of SATA-to-SATA HDs as well as PATA-to-SATA HDs. We usually employ
a Ghost 2003 bootable floppy disk to perform the direct disk-cloning
process, but on occasion use a Ghost 2003 bootable CD. We rarely use the
Ghost-Windows GUI in this respect. It's just a personal preference.

3. As you probably know, you can create a Ghost 2003 bootable floppy disk
directly through the program itself. However, you cannot directly create a
bootable CD that way (unlike the Acronis True Image program, for example,
where you can). Insofar as I know, the only way to create a Ghost 2003
bootable CD is to first create the bootable floppy disk and then use the
floppy in a CD burning program, e.g., the Roxio or Nero program, to create a
bootable Ghost 2003 CD.

One thing more...

We use the Ghost 2003 program as noted above to *directly* clone the
contents of one HD to another HD. We are not interested in creating "disk
images" on media such as CD/DVDs.
Anna

 

[jimi]

Thanks to all the replies... let me try and be a little more specific:

The dead system:
Win2K based on two SATA drives using RAID0 onboard ASUS P4C800 mobo.
Drive(s) are partitioned into 3 logical drives, C: is OS, D is reserved
only for Ghost images, E is my workhorse area.

Ghost 2003 would NOT support the SATA configuration, until I did a live
update (ok, months ago). I dont know the version, cuz I cant read the
drive. But I periodically grab a clean OS ghost, and start installing
all those wonderful little 'patches' from Redmond, and when complete,
do another clean OS save... for the future.

All was well (been doing this on various machines for several years)
until yesterday... I wanted to install a temporary software package,
so I did a Ghost save, installed the software, used it all i wanted,
then launched a Ghost restore. It died with about 50% complete,
complaining: "Span Volume [1] Done (1659) / Norton Ghost needs to
open an image span..." which i could not find.

When I try to reboot at this point, I get a few BIOS messages, then
system hangs. No message about MBR or corrupt OS... nothing.

What to do??? I have another system, also with Ghost 2003, updated for
SATA. Sooo...

Major question: IF I temporarily install a floppy drive and make 'disk
recovery disks' on the SECOND machine, can I then use them to boot and
recover the FIRST machine???

I'll worry about burning a bootable CD with Ghost, or updating to Ghost
10 or some other product later... I just need to recover from one of
the images left on my current configuration.

 

[Rod Speed]

Thanks to all the replies... let me try and be a little more specific:

The dead system:
Win2K based on two SATA drives using RAID0 onboard ASUS P4C800 mobo.
Drive(s) are partitioned into 3 logical drives, C: is OS, D is
reserved only for Ghost images, E is my workhorse area.

Ghost 2003 would NOT support the SATA configuration, until I did a
live update (ok, months ago). I dont know the version, cuz I cant
read the drive. But I periodically grab a clean OS ghost, and start
installing all those wonderful little 'patches' from Redmond, and
when complete, do another clean OS save... for the future.

All was well (been doing this on various machines for several years)
until yesterday... I wanted to install a temporary software package,
so I did a Ghost save, installed the software, used it all i wanted,
then launched a Ghost restore. It died with about 50% complete,
complaining: "Span Volume [1] Done (1659) / Norton Ghost needs to
open an image span..." which i could not find.

When I try to reboot at this point, I get a few BIOS messages, then
system hangs. No message about MBR or corrupt OS... nothing.

What to do??? I have another system, also with Ghost 2003, updated
for SATA. Sooo...

Major question: IF I temporarily install a floppy drive and make
'disk recovery disks' on the SECOND machine, can I then use
them to boot and recover the FIRST machine???

Yes, the floppys arent machine specific.

 

[Peter]

Thanks to all the replies... let me try and be a little more specific:

The dead system:
Win2K based on two SATA drives using RAID0 onboard ASUS P4C800 mobo.
Drive(s) are partitioned into 3 logical drives, C: is OS, D is reserved
only for Ghost images, E is my workhorse area.

Ghost 2003 would NOT support the SATA configuration, until I did a live
update (ok, months ago). I dont know the version, cuz I cant read the
drive. But I periodically grab a clean OS ghost, and start installing
all those wonderful little 'patches' from Redmond, and when complete,
do another clean OS save... for the future.

All was well (been doing this on various machines for several years)
until yesterday... I wanted to install a temporary software package,
so I did a Ghost save, installed the software, used it all i wanted,
then launched a Ghost restore. It died with about 50% complete,
complaining: "Span Volume [1] Done (1659) / Norton Ghost needs to
open an image span..." which i could not find.

When I try to reboot at this point, I get a few BIOS messages, then
system hangs. No message about MBR or corrupt OS... nothing.

What to do??? I have another system, also with Ghost 2003, updated for
SATA. Sooo...

Major question: IF I temporarily install a floppy drive and make 'disk
recovery disks' on the SECOND machine, can I then use them to boot and
recover the FIRST machine???

I'll worry about burning a bootable CD with Ghost, or updating to Ghost
10 or some other product later... I just need to recover from one of
the images left on my current configuration.

Create a custom WinPE CD (BrtPE or else) with drivers compatible with your
storage controller and network adapter.
Boot from it. Transfer images to another network share (or external disk) to
be safe. Restore image to your primary drive.