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kimwal
I have a problem which is driving me crazy.
After installing Windows XP on a new computer along with a zillion
programs, I ran into strange crashes and weird behavior, so I decided
to reinstall everything from scratch, this time acquiring Norton Ghost
10 and creating frequent backups along the way.
I did this on an extra disk, since I did not want to erase my internal
disk until I reached a state better than my problematic system. The
system on the extra disk now seems ok, and I decided it was time to
overwrite my old internal disk.
So I tried to recover my last backup on the extra disk back to my
internal disk, and everything was reported ok by Ghost. But when I
booted the restored system Windows crashes when the startup is almost
finished and most of the autostart icons have turned up on the system
tray.
The message "Generic Host Process for Win32 services has encountered a
problem and must terminate" (or some similar wording--the message is in
Swedish) is displayed, and after that Windows more or less freezes, so
I cannot even bring it down, but have to reboot by switching off the
computer hardware. After booting again it only gets worse, so a new
full clone from the source disk is required before you can make another
test!
To rule out hardware trouble with my internal disk, I restored the
backup to a third disk, but had the same error when booting from it.
Then I began to suspect Ghost 10 to sometimes produce unreliable
recovery points, so I tried to clone the entire extra disk on my
internal disk using the low-level Windows 98 DOS recovery disk of
Norton Ghost 2003, which is supposed to make a bit-by-bit clone of the
whole disk. (I have a 50 GB partition for the system and the remaining
184 GB partition for data and recovery points, and I told Ghost to keep
the same partitioning on the cloned disk.)
Again everything was reported successful by Ghost, but when I boot the
cloned disk I get the same error, and Windows freezes and dies.
Booting again from my extra disk (the source), everything is still ok
and Windows starts up with no problems.
Now, if the disks are bit-by-bit copies of each other, how is this
possible?
Or can there still be subtle differences?
Greatful for any help, since the current situation is a real nightmare.
Since the only stable system I have is on my extra SATA disk, I am
extremely nervous that something might happen to it before I have a
proven bootable clone.
Making recovery points doesn't seem to be safe until it is proven that
they work.
Both the source and target disks are exactly the same brand and size
(WD Caviar Sata 2, 250 GB).
Regards
-- KW
After installing Windows XP on a new computer along with a zillion
programs, I ran into strange crashes and weird behavior, so I decided
to reinstall everything from scratch, this time acquiring Norton Ghost
10 and creating frequent backups along the way.
I did this on an extra disk, since I did not want to erase my internal
disk until I reached a state better than my problematic system. The
system on the extra disk now seems ok, and I decided it was time to
overwrite my old internal disk.
So I tried to recover my last backup on the extra disk back to my
internal disk, and everything was reported ok by Ghost. But when I
booted the restored system Windows crashes when the startup is almost
finished and most of the autostart icons have turned up on the system
tray.
The message "Generic Host Process for Win32 services has encountered a
problem and must terminate" (or some similar wording--the message is in
Swedish) is displayed, and after that Windows more or less freezes, so
I cannot even bring it down, but have to reboot by switching off the
computer hardware. After booting again it only gets worse, so a new
full clone from the source disk is required before you can make another
test!
To rule out hardware trouble with my internal disk, I restored the
backup to a third disk, but had the same error when booting from it.
Then I began to suspect Ghost 10 to sometimes produce unreliable
recovery points, so I tried to clone the entire extra disk on my
internal disk using the low-level Windows 98 DOS recovery disk of
Norton Ghost 2003, which is supposed to make a bit-by-bit clone of the
whole disk. (I have a 50 GB partition for the system and the remaining
184 GB partition for data and recovery points, and I told Ghost to keep
the same partitioning on the cloned disk.)
Again everything was reported successful by Ghost, but when I boot the
cloned disk I get the same error, and Windows freezes and dies.
Booting again from my extra disk (the source), everything is still ok
and Windows starts up with no problems.
Now, if the disks are bit-by-bit copies of each other, how is this
possible?
Or can there still be subtle differences?
Greatful for any help, since the current situation is a real nightmare.
Since the only stable system I have is on my extra SATA disk, I am
extremely nervous that something might happen to it before I have a
proven bootable clone.
Making recovery points doesn't seem to be safe until it is proven that
they work.
Both the source and target disks are exactly the same brand and size
(WD Caviar Sata 2, 250 GB).
Regards
-- KW