Norton Ghost 2003 with USB HD

[Perryg114]

I am trying to put a bigger HD in my laptop and I am backing the ghost image up to my USB external HD. The problem is how do I get it to restore to the new drive. I tried to do this from DOS but could not figure out how to boot without a floppy. So I installed XP on the new drive and tried to restore from there and it does not seem to like the image that was backed up. It reboots and I can find the USB drive but when I select it and continue it fails. Something like bad ghost image. Can I do what I am trying to do or am I wasting my time. I can put the backed up ghost image on the new hard drive but can it access it?

Perry

 

[elkinm]

Isn't the Ghost (or System Works) CD bootable. Also my Ghost gives me an option to create boot disks. However I am not sure if 2003 supports USB drives or SATA drives from dos.

Are you trying to restore the image over a new XP setup through the setup itself? I don't know if ghost can do that as it would require removing the new active install.
Can you clarify on this.

Also, is it possible for you to connect the new drive through your external enclosure and transfer it directly or maybe connect it to you laptop directly.

I can't think of a reason why the image would be bad if it is proper. I am planning on a similar upgrade with my ghost 2003 and would like to know what is going on.

 

[Perryg114]

THe system works CD is bootable but it loads virus scan software. I can escape out of it and access the USB hard drive but then I don't have a copy of ghost.exe in memory. If I had a floopy drive it would probably work. The instructions say you can restore from windows because it reboots into a DOS window when you ask it to restore. I guess I could creat a bootable CD with the ghost.exe and USB drivers but I am not sure how to make a bootable CD. Just trying to figure out whether it is worth the trouble or not. I gives me errors when I try to access the USB HD which it can see and access using the restore from Windows option. Norton has removed all the help and knowledge base from the 2003 products. Real nice guys.

The ghost files are not available when booting from the Norton System Works 2003 CD. The ghost directory is there but the files are archived and are not executable.

Perry

 

[Perryg114]

Well I can reboot from Windows and do an integrety check on the image and it works fine but when I try to clone it to the new drive it stalls and won't initiate the restore process. It says operation failed. I think it is just a bug in the software. I guess I am going to give up and do a fresh load.

Perry

 

[elkinm]

Have you made any progress?

If you want you can try the enclosure from this hot deal.
The only thing I can think of is to have ghost image to your new drive directly in windows and then you would hopefully be able to just swap in the new drive and boot from it.

The only thing I can think of if nothing else works.