norton ghost troubles

[Greg]

Ive tried to create an image file with ghost 2003, every time it restars it
comes up and says starting pc dos.
I see a list of stuff some of the lines are "no drive letter detected"
adapter not present" finding drive letter for Iomega drive" which I dont own
an Iomege drive. I have a smart disk 40 gig usb 2 hard drive.
after the dos screen it goes into a ghost screen and the hr glass locks up.

when I restart the message says completed with errors, or something.
I have a dell notebook XP home. and a smart disk 40 gig usb hard drive that
I want to use for the backup.
I also when I go through the procees of creating the image file I am in
advanced options im including the driver for it and the driver for my usb
floppy drive.

anyone?

Greg

 

[WTC]

Northon Ghost 2003 support
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/ghost/ghost_2003_tasks.html

 

[Bill Crocker]

I don't think Ghost 2003 is compatible with Windows XP w/SP2. You should
upgrade to Ghost 9.0, which is actually derived from Symantec purchasing
Power Quest Drive Image. It's a much better product!

Bill Crocker

 

[CS]

Ive tried to create an image file with ghost 2003, every time it restars it
comes up and says starting pc dos.
I see a list of stuff some of the lines are "no drive letter detected"
adapter not present" finding drive letter for Iomega drive" which I dont own
an Iomege drive. I have a smart disk 40 gig usb 2 hard drive.
after the dos screen it goes into a ghost screen and the hr glass locks up.

when I restart the message says completed with errors, or something.
I have a dell notebook XP home. and a smart disk 40 gig usb hard drive that
I want to use for the backup.
I also when I go through the procees of creating the image file I am in
advanced options im including the driver for it and the driver for my usb
floppy drive.

anyone?

Greg

Getting Ghost 2003 to work with "any" USB external device is very
"iffy" at best. I haven't had any luck at all getting Ghost 2003 to
recognize and make an image to my external Maxtor USB 2.0 hard drive
either. However, I purchased True Image 8.0 and it works great. You
can try True Image if wish www.acronis.com or you can upgrade your
Ghost 2003 to Ghost 9.0 (which is a makeover Drive Image 7.X product).
That version supposedly will work with external USB devices.

 

[Leythos]

I don't think Ghost 2003 is compatible with Windows XP w/SP2. You should
upgrade to Ghost 9.0, which is actually derived from Symantec purchasing
Power Quest Drive Image. It's a much better product!

It's a problem with USB, not SP2.

USB is a vile plague on IT managers, it should have never been invented.

 

[Bob Davis]

| I don't think Ghost 2003 is compatible with Windows XP w/SP2. You should
| upgrade to Ghost 9.0, which is actually derived from Symantec purchasing
| Power Quest Drive Image. It's a much better product!

Bill, Ghost 2003 runs from the DOS prompt before any GUI OS is loaded, and
thus the Windows OS is irrelevant. I run it weekly on an XP-Pro NTFS
machine and have never had any problems. Perhaps the GUI interface of Ghost
has problems with XP2, but I've never used it, and it isn't an important
part of Ghost's functionality.

 

[Shawn E. Hale]

Be sure and run Live Update to have the latest version of Ghost 2003. I
used to see all of those "no drive letter detected" messages too. I think
it is a standard checking process used by Ghost. I used Ghost 2003
successfully creating an image file on an external USB hard drive with no
problems. In fact, I had to completely restore a hard drive using the back
up from the external USB drive with no problems. The recommendation to
upgrade to Ghost 9 is a good one - I did that and found the process much
smoother. I saw Ghost 9 on sale at CompUSA for $9.99 after rebates last
week.

 

[Guest]

Greg,

I have problems with Ghost 9.0 as it does not have a way to generate a boot
disk. I feel this is the first step in using the ghost utility for any
organisation. After spending couple weeks with news groups I have reverted
back to Ghost 8.0 which has the facility to generate a startup boot disk.
Based on the summary you have provided it appears to me that you have
generated the startup boot floppy from this system. You have to install the
Ghost 8.0 on this system and use the utility to generate the boot floppies.
Then you have to use this floppy to boot the system to ghost image utility
screen. The floppies you have generated on this system can be used on many
other systems too. If the configuration of those target systems is entirely
different then you may have to regenerate the boot floppies (Actually it is
not documented anywhere but that's what I found in the past couple of years).
anyway generate a fresh boot floppies and good luck.