Norton Ghost has hijacked my pc

[MrBond]

Got a new drive last week and was going to clone my old drive onto it, so I decided to use ghost.

I have a PCI Promise ATA controller, both HDD's are on that - the new HDD is SATA.

I made the Ghost task in Windows, but when it reboots, Ghost just hangs at its startup screen. If I reboot, I get an error that says "Ghost did not complete, press X to return to Windows" at which point it just sits there and does nothing.

I didn't load any drivers for my ATA controller as part of the Ghost task - I'm not sure if that's the problem or not. My Dad has the same setup and uses Ghost just fine.

I'm thinking that maybe plugging my HDD's into the controller on the board will fix things but I didn't get a chance to try that this morning.

How can I get back to windows if that doesn't work? I was going to try the XP recovery console, but I must have left my XP CD at my parents house, because I can't find it anywhere.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Not sure about the Ghost problem, but I found a downloadable version of just the Recovery Console last week while looking for a fix to a friend's computer. It's a 7mb ISO file -- just burn it to a CD and it will boot into RC.

The link is in the first post here

 

[MrBond]

Awesome - thanks! A few of our PC's here at work have CDR's in them and I'll give that a shot tonight if my first idea doesn't work.

Edit: it worked. I'm not sure if writing a new master boot record to the drive did it or just plugging it into the onboard HDD controller was what worked, but either way I'm back in business. I did a FIXMBR in the recovery console, then upon reboot Ghost still tried to run. I chose to "Return to windows" and it rebooted back into Windows and everything worked.

I may try and find a different drive-clone program now - either that or unplug my optical drives and plug the HDD's into their place on the board and try it again.