How to restore image from Ghost?

[sgopal2]

Hi y'all:

My Win2K Pro box at home crapped out last night. The error I got on booting was: "NLDR is missing". I figured something was wrong with the boot sector on the HD.

So I decided to restore from the Ghost image I had made a few weeks prior. I popped in the Ghost CD that I burned and then it asked me the location of the image file.

I selected the image file from the CD-ROM and then it asked me which partition to restore to. I selected the appropriate partition to restore to and then it spun for about 5 mins. Ghost then asked me to restart.

Upon rebooting I got an error "NON SYSTEM DISK..please insert a SYSTEM DISK"...WTF??? Did I fvck up the image restoration somehow? Do I now have to install SYS on top of the ghost image?? What did I do wrong??

 

[daveqb]

your CD will be ok i am sure.

firstly maybe try "repairing" your install, with the Windows CD?
or tried putting HDD in another system and imaging it through that system.

and lastly (i am not 100% sure, as i had this problem once too and my resolve was to get Power Quest Drive Image (so much better!))
but i think formatting helped me on one occasion, then installing image on a fresh drive.

hope i helped somewhere in my mumbling

 

[techfuzz]

Sounds like the good old, you have a floppy disk in your floppy drive error that gets lots of people.

 

[sgopal2]

Thanks for the tips:

1) I tried formatting the partitions again using Win2K install and then trying to get Ghost to make a fresh image again but no dice...it still said NON SYSTEM disk error.

2) There is no floppy disk in the drive -- i triple checked.

3) I also tried the option create entire disk from image (in the past I tried create partition).

Any other advice??

 

[daveqb]

Originally posted by: techfuzz
Sounds like the good old, you have a floppy disk in your floppy drive error that gets lots of people.

i didnt take him for being that silly

ok,
step 1) install Ghost on another system
2) with a boot disk in FDD create a Ghost boot disk
3) use that boot disk to boot up into Ghost on your PC
4) try again to use Ghost to restore image off CD to the partition.

atl: check the CD out when you have installed Ghost on another system with the Explorer thing it has there

if you cant install Ghost anywhere to create the boot disk, let me know, i have one here i can compress and email to you

good luck

 

[sgopal2]

DaveQB:
Thanks for your advice...I think however I was a little unclear:

My problem is not with getting Ghost to boot, it is getting the restored image to boot. I'm using the latest version of Ghost which does not require the creation of a boot disk using floppy (you can create a bootable CD which is what I did).

I am able to boot to ghost off the CD without a problem. Ghost then starts normally then asks me which drives to restore to, etc. Once it gets to the point where the file copying is done to the new image, it then asks to restart the system.

After restarting is where the problem is....for some reason Ghost is not properly copying the sys files onto the image drive?? The 'puter insists that the hard-drive (even after image restore) is NON-SYSTEM....

What am I doing wrong??

 

[bsobel]

Did you mark the partition active with gdisk?
Bill

 

[daveqb]

it does indeed sound like the image on the cD is corrupted, unfortunately.

i do think trying the CD on a system with Ghost installed and see if you can explore it

thats how i check images i make,

if there corrupt then when you go to explore it gives an error.

thats my only suggestion sorry

 

[techfuzz]

<FONT face=Verdana size=1>bsobel has a good point. Try booting up with a Win 98 boot disk or something and run fdisk and check that the partition has been marked active.</FONT>