norton ghost

[klownska]

Hi, Im trying to make a ghost image of my windows xp pro installation. I wan't to put this image onto my spare hard drive, I have tried several different ways, I first had the disk as an external usb disk now I am trying it as a slave inside my machine, both disks are seagate IDE drives, the master is 80 the slave is 60, the partition I want to ghost is 16 gb. when I go into ghost I go local - partition - to image when I try to save the image I can only see my floppy and burner. I have tried pc dos ms dos all 3 types of boot disk available and aspi drivers from a win 98 boot disk which I know work. anyone know why it doesn't work, doth drives are NTFS.

 

[SYAR2003]

Make the partition of the drive you want to backup to
a primary partition.

 

[braddds]

Depends on which version of ghost. Ghost can see ntfs partitions and the newest version can even write to them.

SYAR2003 is probably right it hasn't been setup properly...can you detect/see the disk in the bios?

Cheers

 

[kosekjm]

Also, I think you need ghost 7.5 (Corporate edition, not sure which version in the personal software) to be able to ghost XP partitions. Ghost 7.0 and before (Again corporate versions) would not recognize the XP partitions.

kosekjm

 

[SYAR2003]

I guess ghost boots down for realtime in
some dos version from a dos image.
My guess is it cant see the extended NTFS,
or it cant handle NTFS at all.

There is an other alternative though to imaging the drive:
If you have the xp -pro version
I have found that the ASR diskette variant of msbackup
of a volume , is just as good as an image .

 

[braddds]

Actually I've used ghost 6.xx to backup everything (windows) as long as my backup-to media is fat32. Restored my NTFS volumes many times with ghost 6.xx, without incident. However, as stated, you have to boot to dos first unless you are in win9x. It operates flawlessly with little tweaking while in win9x. I've even tried ghost32 to backup windows XP while in the OS...found this in some forum on winpe - I didn't like it as it had error messages. Acronis True Image 6 has greater success, than ghost, backing-up while still in the OS, that is! It even creates a boot cd (linux, I believe) for when you need to re-establish your OS drive/partition.

Cheers

 

[kosekjm]

Huh,

Everytime we try and image an XP machine with anything less than Ghost 7.5, we always get image corruption. Doesn't matter what we back up to Fat 32 or NTFS.

Glad it works for you though.

kosekjm

 

[klownska]

Yhanks for all your help. I decided to bite the bullet and reformat the partition as fat, it worked fine after that. I guess it is able to read from but not write to an ntfe partition.