Help with Symantec Ghost

[CaptainKahuna]

I've got a .GHO image of my drive that I made a long time ago, and I'm trying to restore it. The drive is divided into two partitions, C: and R:, with the image residing on R: (and being an image of C: ).

I boot from the Ghost bootdisk, and the program starts. But when I got to Local > Partition > From Image I'm locked in the A: drive and can't access or see my hard drive at all.

Help please....

 

[CaptainKahuna]

Oh, and C: is NTFS, but R: is FAT32, so I should be fine right?

 

[BlueWeasel]

I've had this problem before, but don't remember how I got around it.

What exactly are you using as a bootdisk?

I would try this:

(1) copy the ghost.exe to a floppy disk
(2) Use a Win98/WinME floppy disk or CD to boot to a "true" DOS prompt
(3) The floppy drive will likely be the B:\ drive....switch to the floppy and run ghost.exe

That's how I restore my ghost backups, and I have a similar setup as yours (mixture of FAT32 and NTFS partitions).

What version of Ghost are you running? Another problem could be that your version of Ghost may not be able to write back to the NTFS partition because of the bootdisk you are using.