Vista and Norton Ghost 12

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Sam

I just picked up Norton Ghost 12 to use with Vista and I'm thoroughly
confused. Before I contact (and probably have to pay for) support I thought
I'd see if anyone here had used it and could answer my questions.

All I want to do is use the boot disk and backup the system partition, but
it looks like they've changed the way it works.

The boot disk is only giving me recovery options and no backup ones. Is
everything done from the "client app" now?

My Dell E521 has two recovery partitions (the Dell Utility and Vista
recovery) that I'd also like to backup but they aren't showing up in the
list of drives. Can I not select raw partitions on the disk? Am I limited
only to drives that are mapped by the OS?

In case of 100% disk failure I expected to be able to boot from the recovery
CD and restore the two recovery partitions, the OS, (and an additional
files/games partitions on Disk 0) on a replacement disk. How am I supposed
to recover a failed disk?

I like the old way because it operated outside the OS. I'm not sure I like
this whole "recovery service" idea. If all I wanted was an suped up version
of Vista's System Restore I wouldn't have bothered.
 
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Paul Randall

I haven't tried Ghost 12 yet, but have you tried searching the manual for
the word boot? You may be able to create a set of boot floppies like the
2003 version could. I managed to get what I needed from the boot floppies
and burned a bootable CD set up so that I could run the DOS Ghost.exe and
GDisk.exe. I found that my older Ghost.exe did not save or restore the new
Vista master boot record, so I included the freely downloadable MbrWizD.exe
on my bootable CD. This can save the Vista MBR as a small file and later
restore it.

Anyhow, with a similar bootable CD set up to install DOS USB drivers and
Firewire drivers, you should be able to back up your partitions to an
external USB or Firewire hard drive or possibly to DVDs. For my WXP laptop,
I did the same thing, and wound up creating a bootable DVD that could
restore the laptop to its 'out of the box' condition. Vista is somewhat
bigger, so even with full compression, it doesn't all fit on one DVD-DL.

See whether your Ghost 12 still has the boot disc wizard and post back if
you want help setting up a bootable CD/DVD.

-Paul Randall
 
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John Barnes

Versions since they adopted the DriveImage (Powerquest) programs have only
been able to restore from the CD. They have come with the older versions
packaged so you could run older restores made with them. Not sure about the
restores made with the Powerquest versions.
 
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GG

Let me know if you find an answer to this because I planned on buying this
version too.
If it doesn't perform like the previous versions, I don't be buying it.
 
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John Barnes

Personally I would buy BootItNG or Acronis has several. They are Vista
ready. Also cheaper if I recall.
 
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Chad Harris

GG--

I'd kick Norton Ghost to the curb and go with Acronis--and Acronis has a
free trial. Norton/Symantec never has and never will. You're going to have
far fewer significant problems with Acronis and Vista than Norton believe
me.

CH
 
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Adam Leinss

I just picked up Norton Ghost 12 to use with Vista and I'm
thoroughly confused. Before I contact (and probably have to pay
for) support I thought I'd see if anyone here had used it and
could answer my questions.

I've used the Ghost32 executable version 12 to image Vista without
issues. Search your disc for Ghost32. If you have that, make a
bootable CD from www.ubcd4win.com. Copy Ghost32 to this CD and go to
town.

This executable might only come with the corporate version...my memory
is shaky.

Adam
 
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Ed.

I use the products from http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm

You would be interested in IFD (Image For DOS). I have used their products
now since 2001.
You can try the trial version. You extract it after you download it. You run
the makedisk.exe file and creates a bootable floppy or a bootable CD since
some computers don't have a floppy drive. If you make a CD and are going to
send the image to CD or DVD and the computer only has one ROM drive, you can
still use it. When you get to the point where it asks you insert a blank CD
or DVD, you then take out the Image For DOS CD and then insert the media you
are using and continue.

After it boots, you can create an image to another partition, to a DVD or
CD, external USB drive.

When you want to install or restore the image, just put in the DVD or CD it
made and it will boot to it and start the restore. Not really sure if the
trial version can do a restore after 30 days.

So check it out and I think you will be pleased with it. Sure beats Ghost
and all the others and plus you can't beat the price.

Good Luck,
Ed.
 

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