restoring with ghost 2003

[tlviewer]

hello,

Question summary:
Can I use a ghost restore set on a replacement hard drive? Does the new
one have to be exactly the same specs (size)?

I have a laptop that came with an 80 GB drive
(hitachi travel star 5400 rpm).

In the first couple of days of use I made a ghost image of the single WinXP
pro partition.

I got a file set like this (1.6 GB)
C_Drive.v2i
C_Drive_s01.v2i
C_Drive_s02.v2i
C_Drive_s03.v2i
C_Drive_s04.v2i
C_Drive_s05.v2i
C_Drive_s06.v2i
HERCULES.sv2i

I copied these files to another box (desktop).

In the meantime this hitachi drive failed. I replaced it with a new toshiba,
also 80 GB. I made 4 partitions with BootItNG (Bing). When I try
and restore it tells me the source drive is invalid. If the new source
drive is only 8 GB and its expecting 80 GB, is this enough
to make the restore fail? Would it work if I had a single 80 GB partition?

I'm using the System Restore bootable CD to restore. It's the Symantec
Restore disk.

thanks for your comments,
tlviewer

 

[tlviewer]

Question summary:
Can I use a ghost restore set on a replacement hard drive? Does the new
one have to be exactly the same specs (size)?

In the meantime this hitachi drive failed. I replaced it with a new toshiba,
also 80 GB. I made 4 partitions with BootItNG (Bing). When I try
and restore it tells me the source drive is invalid. If the new source

Correction. It said the destination drive is invalid and shows the 8.1 GB
size. Its formatted
as NTFS as was the original.

By the way, I have SuSE 9.3 in 2 of the four partitions. It recognised all
my hardware
and installed in less than 45 minutes. The synaptic touchpad was recognised
too. This
is where I am not sure how a new install of WinXP will perform. I expect
that I will have
to make a trip to the Synaptic web site and get the latest drivers for
WinXP.

Trying to restore from Ghost is turning out to be more trouble than a new
install .

 

[Richard Urban]

The size of the new drive must be equal to the size of the drive you imaged.
You need one 80 gig blank space to restore your 80 gig image. You can't fit
5 pounds of rice into a four pound bag.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Merlin]

hello,
I got a file set like this (1.6 GB)
C_Drive.v2i
C_Drive_s01.v2i
C_Drive_s02.v2i
C_Drive_s03.v2i
C_Drive_s04.v2i
C_Drive_s05.v2i
C_Drive_s06.v2i
HERCULES.sv2i

Those files do not appear to be Ghost 2003 files. In fact they don't appear
to be Ghost files of any version I've ever seen.

 

[Bengt Bergholm]

Maybe I'm not reading all right here but you can use smaller than the
original hard drive when you want to restore your image providing that
the ammount of data is not above the capacity of the target drive. This
has been possible with Ghost since long before Symantec came into the
picture.

 

[Bengt Bergholm]

Those files do not appear to be Ghost 2003 files. In fact they don't appear
to be Ghost files of any version I've ever seen.

They would appear to be PowerQuest Data Protector files (now Symantec).

 

[Merlin]

They would appear to be PowerQuest Data Protector files (now Symantec).

I can't seem to produce them with my copy of Ghost 2003 so I can't see how
one could restore these files with Ghost 2003. Is it possible?

 

[Richard Urban]

Ghost 9 will not allow you to restore to a lesser sized partition. It will
throw up an error message every time. TrueImage "will" allow you to resize
the partition.

I make weekly images of my 20 gig system partition. If I were to reduce the
available space of the original partition, even by a couple of meg, I will
get this error message. Remember, Ghost 9 is basically Drive Image from
PowerQuest, and not a child of any previous version of Ghost.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

They would appear to be PowerQuest Data Protector files (now
Symantec).

The product is called "V2i Protector," not "Data Protector." Whether Ghost
can do anything with them I don't know.

 

[Stu]

These files are Ghost 2003 files I have the same v2i's on my Ghost image
files

Unhide the file extensions and you will see them

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

These files are Ghost 2003 files I have the same v2i's on my Ghost
image files

Thanks. I wasn't aware that Ghost uses the same extensions as V2i Protector.
Is Ghost 2003 a repackaged version of V2i Protector?

 

[Admiral Q]

Richard - WRONG! I use Ghost 9 on our PCs/Laptops to install aka restore a
Ghost Image made on 80GB drive to 20 and 40 GB drives routinely. As Bengt
said, as long as the total amount of data doesn't exceed the size of the
partition you are restoring too, then it WILL restore it.

 

[tlviewer]

hi Admiral,

Richard - WRONG! I use Ghost 9 on our PCs/Laptops to install aka restore a
Ghost Image made on 80GB drive to 20 and 40 GB drives routinely. As Bengt
said, as long as the total amount of data doesn't exceed the size of the
partition you are restoring too, then it WILL restore it.

I'm using Ghost 9.0.0.2583

When I boot into the Symantec Restore Env. my restore set is recognised and
accepted. All seems OK until I point to the desired destination drive, then
I get the
error.

All tools except this one see the drive as NTFS -- Ghost says Unknown. The
data is
only 2.5 GB and the partition is 8 GB.

My gut says that I need to reformat and label the partition to help out
Ghost, but I
am weary of the whole process.

My goal was to try out the whole image/restore process and get a feeling for
Ghost.
I learned enough even though I didn't make it to the finish line. The laptop
is fully
usable as is, though I miss being able to boot into WinXP once in a while.

thanks for all the reponses,
tlviewer

 

[WTC]

Ghost 9 will not allow you to restore to a lesser sized partition. It will
throw up an error message every time. TrueImage "will" allow you to resize
the partition.

You can restore to a smaller drive/partition as long as the data does not
exceed the drive/partition space, I have no problems when restoring to a
smaller drive/partition in Ghost 9.0.

See "Restoring a backup image"
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/ghost/9.0/manuals/userguide.pdf

 

[Peter Wilkins]

Thanks. I wasn't aware that Ghost uses the same extensions as V2i Protector.
Is Ghost 2003 a repackaged version of V2i Protector?

Somebody is fooling somebody.
A Ghost 2003 image comprises a .gho file followed by .ghi files if
there is more than one file in the image.
Ghost 2003 does not produce .v2i files.
Later versions of Ghost (based on Drive Image) may do so, but not
Ghost 2003.

 

[Dave]

My Ghost 10 produces .v2i files and I think Ghost 9 did also.

Thanks. I wasn't aware that Ghost uses the same extensions as V2i
Protector.
Is Ghost 2003 a repackaged version of V2i Protector?

Somebody is fooling somebody.
A Ghost 2003 image comprises a .gho file followed by .ghi files if
there is more than one file in the image.
Ghost 2003 does not produce .v2i files.
Later versions of Ghost (based on Drive Image) may do so, but not
Ghost 2003.

 

[Richard Urban]

That's because the last version of Drive Image used those extensions, and we
all know who bought Drive Image - and then turned it into Ghost 9.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[coal_brona]

Hi,

I would like to add another great way to restore is to use data
recovery tools. Some of them are really great. imho the most powerful
ones are Active@ Undelete and Uneraser (DOS). That never failed me
before. You should definately pay attention to these tools.

http://www.active-undelete.com/

http://www.uneraser.com/