After toying with Ghost for a couple of hours and contemplating other solutions, I remembered a piece of software from Acorn that I had used to upgrade to a new HDD in my laptop. I just refreshed my memory of late on the workings (or non-workings) of Ghost because I just bought a larger/faster HDD for my OS. This got me out of the endless loop and allowed me to return to a normal state, however, it did nothing to help me clone my drive. "-VPSGHBOOT-", that Ghost had made active, then, make the original WinXP partition active. Then, use FDisk to delete the ~800MB partition, After researching this debacle on Google, the solution was to use a Floppy Boot Disk and boot into DOS. The computer was stuck in an endless loop of trying to either boot into Ghost or WinXP, neither of which was successful. Ghost rebooted to DOS and created a virtual partition on the drive from which to boot Ghost, but failed in the operation after creating the partition "-VPSGHBOOT-" and making it active. NOTE: On this date, tried to do a Norton Ghost 2003 clone of drive C: from within WinXP, before installing Vista Business. The one time I tried to clone my OS with it, here was the result (from my permanent notes): So.i take it my version is even newer than the ng2003b793_en.x86 version which has an earliest date of modified - 24th december 2003Īnd therefore.my version shouldn't have this problem you experienced?ĮDIT - just remembered the -ver switch and it's build 793 cdrlib 3.1.Sorry, I did misunderstand. The file size is 1031428 bytes and the dates are Just had a look at my ghost 2003 executable - it doesn't give the version number but displays The question is, if you use the "-clone,mode=pcreate,src=1:2,dst=d:\ghost\image1.gho -z1" switches, does Ghost mark the drive or do you still get the option to "Continue without marking drives"? GHOST.EXE -clone,mode=pcreate,src=1:2,dst=d:\ghost\image1.gho -z1 If exist d:\ghost\image1.gho ren d:\ghost\image1.gho image2.gho If exist d:\ghost\image2.gho ren d:\ghost\image2.gho image3.gho All very confusing but I'll figure out what the "boot record" is one of these days - still much to learn!Īnother question: I've been playing around with bat files to automate the image file creation process as described in Rad's guide and I've come up with the following which seems to work quite well when made an AUTOEXEC.BAT offĮcho -Įcho Up to three Ghost images of the XP partition will be maintainedĮcho in the Ghost folder on the Backup partition.Įcho Three Ghost images are stored in the Ghost folder. I guess that bit about the boot record pointing to the NTLDR file not letting a Win XP formatted floppy act as a DOS boot disk even with Win9x boot files on it is the answer. I thought that if you formatted a floppy under win XP using the FAT File System and then copied the Win 98 boot files:, io.sys, and msdos.sys, it should work. Radministrator, I sent the zip file to your email address as given by your email icon but it bounced (permanent fatal errors, User unknown, etc) Would you please send me an email from your working address and I'd be happy to try again. Rebooting my PC with the floppy in its drive automatically loads Ghost with PS2 mouse support and the rest is as per Rad's Guide. So, here are the details of the files on my now successful floppy disk: I keep a very basic installation of Win98SE on a geriatric 1.2GB HD (the kind that sounds like a WW2 machine gun) just for these occasions. The version of Ghost 2003 must be dated 12-24-03. The disk must be formatted and created using Windows 98.Ģ. I learned that the most important points to pay attention to are:ġ. zip) from the Princeton University's server the problem was solved. My original 2003 ghost.exe was dated 10-01-02 and displayed "Norton Ghost 2003 Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Symantec Corp" and I was at a loss to understand why restored images of Win ME worked perfectly but restored images of WinXP Pro SP2 refused to boot past the dreaded blue screen.Īfter upgrading ghost.exe to the 12-24-03 version contained in the file ng2003b793_en.x86 (change the. My PC is fairly basic: ASUS/AMD system with two parallel ATA hard drives (as per Rad's recommendations) and WinXP Pro SP2 on an NTFS partition. After a lot of hassles and research I managed to assemble a simple Ghost 2003 bootable floppy disk that, with a minimum of effort, creates and restores Windows XP Pro SP2 images perfectly and, as a gesture of appreciation to this forum, I thought I'd post the details for the benefit of others.
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