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Thread ID: 67222	2006-03-21 10:38:00	Restoring WXP from Norton Ghost	Strommer (42)	Press F1

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439700	2006-03-21 10:38:00	Today I reformatted the HD and now am attempting to restore WinXP using Norton Ghost. 18 months ago I made a disk set using Ghost, consisting of a floppy, a DVD and a CD. I have successfully booted into the Ghost program but cannot figure out what to do. On one screen I do this: LOCAL > DISK > TO IMAGE The other options besides "TO IMAGE" are TO DISK and FROM IMAGE. I then get a screen that asks for the file name ("of type .GHO"), so I took the DVD out and put it in my wife's laptop and saw five files: CDR00001.GHO the other four files having numerals 2, 3, 4, and 5. So I try inserting the first file name but I get "an invalid" error warning. Also on the screen, at the top, it states "Look in" but it only has the option of "A: Local Drive" and I cannot change it. BTW, when making the Ghost disks, I did an Integrity Check and it passed OK. I have always found Ghost to be NOT user friendly and am ready to boot from the WIN XP disk (but will have to find a few programs and drivers that are loaded on Ghost). Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. Steve_L (finally back from an OE trip to India and SE Asia)	Strommer (42)
439701	2006-03-21 10:55:00	Hi, welcome back, enjoyed India twice and asia numerous times myself. When u have the ghost program loaded from the floppy, th dos program may not recognise the dvd format being greater than 2gb, you wioll need to use a boot cd which has fat32 format. You will doing a disk>from image transfer, the 1st file is the gho, next gh1, gh2, gh3 etc.	SolMiester (139)
439702	2006-03-21 11:05:00	Hi, welcome back, enjoyed India twice and asia numerous times myself. When u have the ghost program loaded from the floppy, th dos program may not recognise the dvd format being greater than 2gb, you wioll need to use a boot cd which has fat32 format. You will doing a disk>from image transfer, the 1st file is the gho, next gh1, gh2, gh3 etc. OK, lets see if I follow what you say... First of all, the screen that baffles me says at the top "Image File to Restore From" but then it only gives the option of A drive, the floppy, and my attempts to enter E:\ result in an Invalid Entry. So you are saying I now need a CD with FAT32 format, which I do not have, and which seems a weird request from Ghost since it gave me the option to make a DVD with the GHO images on it. I have been using a guide here: radified.com and downloaded the PDF guide but it still it only says to enter the drive (DVD in my case, E:\ drive) letter but as stated this does not change the setting shown as A drive. So it seems that Norton Ghost is useless, and I will have to go ahead and restore XP using the WIN XP disk.... ???? BTW, I have no desire to return to India... been there twice now and got terrible dysentery both times, every day except the first two, and I was careful. Great people, music, food, palaces, etc, but also terribly filthy with rubbish everywhere. Never got dysentery in China, Laos, Thialand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore - and in those countries they actually have rubbish collectors and street sweepers!	Strommer (42)
439703	2006-03-21 11:31:00	LOL, happy travels....:-) Okay ignore the fat32 bit, ahead of ourselves. When you booted up to the floppy, it did not load a cd rom driver in order for you to select the dvd/cd drive. You could use a win 98 boot disk, not sure if win xp cd has ablilty to boot to dos with cd support!!/??? Not dont think it does. We need to search net for a bootup floppy with cd support in the startup config/autoexec, some of the other poster may know a site...1 mo	SolMiester (139)
439704	2006-03-21 11:35:00	try the doscdrom boot disk image here to create a new floppy boot disk www.bootdisk.com	SolMiester (139)
439705	2006-03-21 11:55:00	Nextime I would recommend using Norton GoBack instead of Ghost From What I heard Norton Ghost is very mucky to use with windows XP	Ninjabear (2948)
439706	2006-03-21 12:09:00	Hmmm, I've struck this problem before. There are two Ghost Boot Floppies of note(for Ghost 2003 at least) 1) Standard Ghost Boot Disk 2) CD/DVD Startup Disk with Ghost You probably want Disk 2 (or any old Win98 boot floppy with enough room for the ghost.exe file and generic cdrom drivers with mscdex)..	gibler (49)
439707	2006-03-21 19:20:00	Why are you using the ghost floppy and not the CD itself? Did you burn the .gho images to the CD yourself rather than letting Norton Ghost create bootable CDs? If Norton Ghost created the CDs, then you should be able to boot from the first CD and the Ghost program will open up automatically and work as the manual included with the program explains. You will need to set your machine to boot from the CD drive before the hard drives. You change the boot order in the BIOS. If you only copied the .gho files manually to the CD/DVD, then it might be faster all round just to reinstall Windows from the standard installation/recovery disks, then install Norton Ghost and use the Window version to run Ghost and over-write your newly installed Windows with your ghosted image. That way you get exactly what was on the Ghost disks.	Jen (38)
439708	2006-03-21 19:49:00	Thanks Jen, Sol, Gib, Ninja . Well, it looks like Ghost is a wipe out and I will have to install Windows the usual way, from the XP disk . Jen, the one CD that I made with Ghost has a few programs on it, not . gho images . It just seems stupid that Ghost would give me the option of making a DVD for the five . gho images and then make a floppy that does not allow the DVD to be read . . . ! OK, it sounds good for me to download another bootable floppy but my wife's laptop, the one I am using now, does not have a floppy drive . But wait, I should have a Win98 bootable floppy somewhere . . . . oh . . . . it would not have the DVD drivers on it since I had no DVD in the Win98 days . Anyhow, the time it has taken me to fiddle around with Ghost and here on PF1 has been longer than if I would have installed windows from the XP disk . When I was in Kuala Lumpur I bought a lot of software :rolleyes: and there must be a decent hard drive image program, better than Ghost, so once the PC is back up and running well, I will make a HD image for future use . Guess I could use Ghost, making a floppy with DVD driver on it . . . BTW, I would like to partition the 120 GB main HD so that if Windows needs to be reinstalled I do not lose all of the data . What size should I make the partition for Windows? I was thinking of 20 GB, to allow programs to be there as well . That leaves 100 GB on the secondary partition for data, plus of course I have another 80 GB HD for back up (in the same PC) . Sound OK? Why are you using the ghost floppy and not the CD itself? Did you burn the . gho images to the CD yourself rather than letting Norton Ghost create bootable CDs? If Norton Ghost created the CDs, then you should be able to boot from the first CD and the Ghost program will open up automatically and work as the manual included with the program explains . You will need to set your machine to boot from the CD drive before the hard drives . You change the boot order in the BIOS . If you only copied the . gho files manually to the CD/DVD, then it might be faster all round just to reinstall Windows from the standard installation/recovery disks, then install Norton Ghost and use the Window version to run Ghost and over-write your newly installed Windows with your ghosted image . That way you get exactly what was on the Ghost disks .	Strommer (42)
439709	2006-03-21 20:23:00	WinXP can run on 4GB HDD, however I would suggest at least 10GB...optimally 20GB for temps/cookies/personal documents and such. 20GB is big enough to hold all you need plus for an OS, but small enough not to lag as bad, and to give you more room on your storage/install partition...	TiJay (6055)
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