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Noeton Ghost 9.0 copied drive does not boot

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1landshark

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Am having a problem with my C drive and may need to replace it. I have been using Norton Ghost 9.0 to make a "copy and bootable" drive on my second HDD. I just tested it 2 days ago and it wouldn't boot. I completely reformatted the drive and made another copy last night using Ghost. It still does not boot. It gets hung up on the Windows Welcome window and goes no further and the HDD stops making any noise. I need a bootable copy of my C HDD as I need to replace it. Any suggestions as to why Norton Ghost 9.0 is not making a bootable copy. I always check the boxes in Norton Ghost that say "check source for file system errors", "check destination for file system errors" and "set drive active (for booting OS).
Suggestions would be appreciated.
Both HDD are Hitachi 80GB 8MB 7200 SATA
 
Too bad the CD cannot be created without installing the program... because it can never be completely uninstalled. Nooo!
 
just repair your version of windows


or use another boot drive to access the files, extract whatever files you want and then wipe the ghosted drive once you're done searching through it
 
You have to set the ghost options to image boot if you just do the default image method it does not copy the boot sector so you get what you described.
 
Well, I downloaded Acronis 9.0, made a copy of my HDD and it immediately booted up. All this time I had been making copies of my HDD with Ghost, thinking it was bootable and it wasn't.
Thanks for all the feedback
 
Originally posted by: Auric
Too bad the CD cannot be created without installing the program... because it can never be completely uninstalled. Nooo!
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That's misleading. Uninstalling is easy, and bootable CD can be used on any machine by anyone with no installation at all.

 
Oh sure, it looks like it uninstalls but it leaves behind drivers and worse, undeletable reg keys. Which is ironic since if you want to keep a clean system you would need to image before installing TI then restore after making the boot CD. Catch twoody two.

Also, it is incapable of backing up to DVDR. It can to DVDRW but requires pre-formatting with UDF which becomes worse if the drive does not support MRW and thus relies upon inherently unreliable software packet writing.

Finally, the boot CD program is much larger and takes much longer to run even before navigating through all the menus than DOS Ghost, which incidentally can do jobs from a command file. If TI works for you that's great but other than a purty interface I don't see any advantage.
 
Originally posted by: Auric
Oh sure, it looks like it uninstalls but it leaves behind drivers and worse, undeletable reg keys. Which is ironic since if you want to keep a clean system you would need to image before installing TI then restore after making the boot CD. Catch twoody two.

Also, it is incapable of backing up to DVDR. It can to DVDRW but requires pre-formatting with UDF which becomes worse if the drive does not support MRW and thus relies upon inherently unreliable software packet writing.

Finally, the boot CD program is much larger and takes much longer to run even before navigating through all the menus than DOS Ghost, which incidentally can do jobs from a command file. If TI works for you that's great but other than a purty interface I don't see any advantage.
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Any residual files in the Registry are easily cleaned by Norton Utilities' WinDoctor.

Acronis just posted a new build for version 9 that adds DVD burning.

But - the real key is to use what works best for what you do. My sole use is cloning - and Ghost doesn't do that very reliably.

 
I'm doubtful any utility can delete the reg keys since they cannot be manually. In any case it should not be necessary.

Happy news about the new build with improved DVD support but unfortunately a quick check of their forum reveals it is a bit bit dodgy.

I agree use what works best for you... whatever will encourage backing up.
 
Hi. I was struggling with Norton Ghost 9 too, exactly what you were facing the cloned C: drive not booting. But instead of getting Acronis, I went and looked a little more. All I had to do apparently was to do "fdisk /mbr" with a startup disk.(a search which proved to be more challenging. Had to whip out an old Win98 boot disk). In any case, I found it on this link from Norton. Apparently, they admittedly say their products don't work. Such as Ghost in this case. Stupid norton. Step 1 is all I needed.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/po...d=Norton+Ghost&ver=10.0&csm=no&seg=hho
 
Originally posted by: vegetation
It's a well known fact that Ghost will very occasionally not make your drive bootable. Toss it in the trash and use Acronis.
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Fixed. I've duplicated hundreds of machines using Ghost and one (yes, one) failed. That was fixed by writing a new bootsector and Ghosting again.
 
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