Installing Norton Ghost copy of Windows

[Dave Neve]

Hi

I have Windows XP on my C drive and a Norton Ghost Image (copy of C drive)
on another one.

Recently, I had to reinstall the ghost image as sth had wrecked havoc with
Windows on my C drive.

But the Norton Ghost program is also on the C drive and it was touch and go
to get it to work

So now I'm wondering if I should also install the Norton Ghost progrm on the
other drive which is less likely to be affected as it doesn't have any
programs.

Any advice please?

Regards

Dave Neve

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have Windows XP on my C drive and a Norton Ghost Image (copy of C
drive) on another one.

Recently, I had to reinstall the ghost image as sth had wrecked
havoc with Windows on my C drive.

But the Norton Ghost program is also on the C drive and it was
touch and go to get it to work

So now I'm wondering if I should also install the Norton Ghost
progrm on the other drive which is less likely to be affected as it
doesn't have any programs.

Any advice please?

What does Norton's best practices say?

 

[Merlin]

Hi

I have Windows XP on my C drive and a Norton Ghost Image (copy of C drive)
on another one.

Recently, I had to reinstall the ghost image as sth had wrecked havoc
with Windows on my C drive.

But the Norton Ghost program is also on the C drive and it was touch and
go to get it to work

So now I'm wondering if I should also install the Norton Ghost progrm on
the other drive which is less likely to be affected as it doesn't have any
programs.

Any advice please?

Regards

Dave Neve

Make a Ghost boot disk or cd. When you have a crash you boot from it and
restore your image.

 

[Poprivet]

Hi

I have Windows XP on my C drive and a Norton Ghost Image (copy of C
drive) on another one.

Recently, I had to reinstall the ghost image as sth had wrecked
havoc with Windows on my C drive.

But the Norton Ghost program is also on the C drive and it was touch
and go to get it to work

So now I'm wondering if I should also install the Norton Ghost progrm
on the other drive which is less likely to be affected as it doesn't
have any programs.

Any advice please?

Regards

Dave Neve

Didn't you make, or receive with Ghost, the Ghost Recovery CD? Use that
and you don't care what's on the C drive. IF you didn't, you might be
stuck.

 

[Poprivet]

Make a Ghost boot disk or cd. When you have a crash you boot from it
and restore your image.

Ghost comes with, and you can make, [an iso] a recocvery CD to start a
machine to fully reinstall the C drive. That's what he needs.

Pop`

 

[Merlin]

Make a Ghost boot disk or cd. When you have a crash you boot from it
and restore your image.

Ghost comes with, and you can make, [an iso] a recocvery CD to start a
machine to fully reinstall the C drive. That's what he needs.

Pop`

That's what I meant, you call it a recovery cd, I call it a boot cd.

 

[Brian A]

Make a Ghost boot disk or cd. When you have a crash you boot from it
and restore your image.

Ghost comes with, and you can make, [an iso] a recocvery CD to start a machine to
fully reinstall the C drive. That's what he needs.

At least for Ghost ver9/2003, Ghost does not come with an iso recovery CD,
ghost.exe is on the install disk. When booting with the disk in the drive you are
presented with a prompt to press a key to boot from disk, if no key is pressed the OS
is loaded. Also, the only way a CD is created to be bootable is if the image is
saved to disk(s), ghost.exe is then automatically added to the first image archive
disk. If the image is created anywhere other than CD's, you have to create/use
floppy boot disk(s).

Pop`

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[Merlin]

Hi

I have Windows XP on my C drive and a Norton Ghost Image (copy of C
drive) on another one.

Recently, I had to reinstall the ghost image as sth had wrecked
havoc with Windows on my C drive.

But the Norton Ghost program is also on the C drive and it was touch
and go to get it to work

So now I'm wondering if I should also install the Norton Ghost
progrm on the other drive which is less likely to be affected as it
doesn't have any programs.

Any advice please?

Regards

Dave Neve



Make a Ghost boot disk or cd. When you have a crash you boot from it
and restore your image.

Ghost comes with, and you can make, [an iso] a recocvery CD to start a
machine to fully reinstall the C drive. That's what he needs.

At least for Ghost ver9/2003, Ghost does not come with an iso recovery
CD, ghost.exe is on the install disk. When booting with the disk in the
drive you are presented with a prompt to press a key to boot from disk, if
no key is pressed the OS is loaded. Also, the only way a CD is created to
be bootable is if the image is saved to disk(s), ghost.exe is then
automatically added to the first image archive disk. If the image is
created anywhere other than CD's, you have to create/use floppy boot
disk(s).

Pop`

--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

I created a recovery cd from ghost2003 by first creating a 31/2" recovery
disk, then I used it and Nero to create a recovery cd. I use it instead of
the floppy on my notebook.

 

[Brian A]

Merlin wrote:
Hi

I have Windows XP on my C drive and a Norton Ghost Image (copy of C
drive) on another one.

Recently, I had to reinstall the ghost image as sth had wrecked
havoc with Windows on my C drive.

But the Norton Ghost program is also on the C drive and it was touch
and go to get it to work

So now I'm wondering if I should also install the Norton Ghost
progrm on the other drive which is less likely to be affected as it
doesn't have any programs.

Any advice please?

Regards

Dave Neve



Make a Ghost boot disk or cd. When you have a crash you boot from it
and restore your image.

Ghost comes with, and you can make, [an iso] a recocvery CD to start a machine
to fully reinstall the C drive. That's what he needs.

At least for Ghost ver9/2003, Ghost does not come with an iso recovery CD,
ghost.exe is on the install disk. When booting with the disk in the drive you are
presented with a prompt to press a key to boot from disk, if no key is pressed the
OS is loaded. Also, the only way a CD is created to be bootable is if the image
is saved to disk(s), ghost.exe is then automatically added to the first image
archive disk. If the image is created anywhere other than CD's, you have to
create/use floppy boot disk(s).

Pop`

--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

I created a recovery cd from ghost2003 by first creating a 31/2" recovery disk,
then I used it and Nero to create a recovery cd. I use it instead of the floppy on
my notebook.

I created Ghost 2003 boot CD in a similar way and what I mentioned still stands,
Ghost does not have the ability to create a boot CD unless the images are saved to
CD/DVD(s). Using any other application to create the boot CD does not constitute
Ghost creating it.


--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375