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| Thread ID: 61859 | 2005-09-19 05:43:00 | Canot get out of Norton Ghost Reboot | chiefnz (545) | Press F1 |
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| 389330 | 2005-09-19 05:43:00 | Ok I have a dual boot Windows XP Pro and Windows XP Home setup. I originally installed XP Pro on a 20GB drive but I have now obtained a 40GB drive. I was just wanting to make a clone of the 20GB drive and then put that onto the 40GB drive using Norton Ghost 2003, I have done this before without any hassles at all. Basically what happens is Norton Ghost runs but then it says device drivers have failed to load. I am then left with a DOS Prompt. I have tried to avoid the Ghost setup by pressing my arrow keys so that Norton Ghost doesn't automatically start. Doing this gives me a 2 option menu... 1) Run Norton Ghost Operation 2) Reboot into Windows I have tried option 2 but nothing happens. How do I delete the commads which load the Norton Ghost operation. I have tried the FIXMBR command using Recovery Console off my Windows CD but that hasn't worked. Does anyone have any ideas??? Incidently it is my XP Home install that is affected... I do not want to re-install or format if I can... cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 389331 | 2005-09-19 06:29:00 | er...dunno what you did but I connect the drives, source and destinantion, boot off a win98 boot disk (floppy), then load the ghost exe file. Then image drive to drive (or partition to partition). Remove old HDD and boot disk, reboot to windows. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 389332 | 2005-09-19 07:58:00 | er...dunno what you did but I connect the drives, source and destinantion, boot off a win98 boot disk (floppy), then load the ghost exe file. Then image drive to drive (or partition to partition). Remove old HDD and boot disk, reboot to windows.Same.... can you reghost at all? Anytime a ghost has failed, recheck your settings and reghost. |
Myth (110) | ||
| 389333 | 2005-09-19 08:17:00 | I'm not sure, Ghost is installed on the XP Home setup not the XP Pro one. I've tried fixmbr, bootcfg and a repair install for XP Home but none of them have worked. I don't mind a reformat and install now but before I do I want to retrieve my e-mails... I store my e-mail in a folder called "Archive" which I created in my e-mail account settings within MS Outlook. Basically I just move the e-mail from my Inbox to the "Archive" folder. Is there anyway I can retrieve these e-mails? That's all I care about really, if I can get my e-mails saved then I'll re-install XP Home. Incidently I have selected my files to be made private within XP Home so copying stuff from the Documents And Settings folder is denied.... is that going to be a problem? cheers chiefnz PS Norton Products suck... Now I know why I don't like Norton Anti-Virus... it seems to be a trend with all Norton products |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 389334 | 2005-09-19 08:18:00 | I assume that you have the CD for Norton Ghost 2003? From this disk create the ghost floppies. OR Copy "ghost.exe" to a floppy & use it after booting with a startup floppy. I have made a bootable CD using the startup floppie and put "Ghost.exe" & "Partition Magic" on it. |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 389335 | 2005-09-19 08:31:00 | PS Norton Products suck... Now I know why I don't like Norton Anti-Virus... it seems to be a trend with all Norton products..........errrrrrr generally i'd agree but ghost is different .....for one it was written and created by a KIWI and two ........its worked for me hundreds of times...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 389336 | 2005-09-19 08:40:00 | According to this US PC World review, Ghost 2003 is not all that clever, it is difficult to use and caused a crash for the reviewer. I'd go with what others have said and run it from a boot floppy or boot CD, NOT from within XP. I use Ghost 2002 from a boot disk with no problems at all. www.pcworld.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 389337 | 2005-09-19 08:44:00 | A majority of Nortons products are crap. However Ghost is the only one I would recommend. I think there is a way to mount your harddrive using a Linux CD. How its done I am not 100% sure, but I think its in the FAQs or elsewhere within this forum. One of the more knowledgeable ones in here may be able to help you |
Myth (110) | ||
| 389338 | 2005-09-19 13:25:00 | Well when windows won't let you access anything (I guess safe mode is no go) then I find using a later version of Knoppix and a usb stick/LAN is a good way of grabbing the data. Firstly I'd get the data you want and run diagnostics to check the hard drives phyiscally and for filesystem corruption. Mske sure your Ghost is updated through Liveupdate . I perosnally just use a stripped down version of the win 98 startup disk with the ghost.exe (and then create a bootable CD). You work around the Access Denied problem by booting into Safe Mode as an administrator and taking Ownership of folders/files. I've used Ghost 2003 a lot and it does the job fine - admitedly I always do disk to disk clones. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 389339 | 2005-09-19 20:42:00 | You work around the Access Denied problem by booting into Safe Mode as an administrator and taking Ownership of folders/files. I cannot get into Windows Safe mode at all...because Norton Ghost auto starts... pressing F8 does nothing. Guess it's a clean install then aye.... :( cheers chiefnz |
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