Restoring windows xp with norton ghost 7

[JimRaynor]

Hi i'm interested in making an image of my hd and then putting that on a dvd. Ghost however seems to only work in dos mode... I guess I am just having trouble with the ghost program and windows xp. It seems pretty easy to use with other operating systems that use fat32 instead of ntfs. Anyone done this before? I mean what kind of boot disk do I need to make to see ntfs?

 

[MedicBob]

Ghost 2003 supports writing to NTFS. Earlier versions could read NTFS. Describe a little bit better your set-up and some one will have the answer.

 

[JimRaynor]

well my real problem is that i need a boot disk to get into dos that see all my ntfs stuff

 

[imported_Phil]

If you use the Ghost wizard and tell it you want to back up to a CD/DVD (I think they call it recordable media rather than a file), it will go into DOS and start creating the image and write it to a DVD. If you then need to restore, you put the DVD in the drive and boot the computer, it starts restoring automatically.

Don't worry about the NTFS thing, that was sorted out a while ago; I do this soooo much at work with people's machines it's just not funny 🙂

[Edit] Oh, and you don't need to worry about working DOS, when Ghost restarts the computer to start making the image, it does it all itself; when it's finished, it'll reboot back into Windows. Once you click Go or Continue or whatever, you can leave it alone, except for changing discs if need be.

 

[JimRaynor]

yeah but i have ghost 7 and to run it i need to do it in dos to start with

 

[CQuinn]

well my real problem is that i need a boot disk to get into dos that see all my ntfs stuff

I've only used Drive Image, but the DOS boot disk does not need to "see" NTFS for
the imaging program to work. Drive Image has its own way to handle seeing non-FAT
partitions to back them up. I suspect Ghost works in a similar way.

 

[MedicBob]

There should be a wizard to create a bootdisk. Use PC DOS.

 

[LiLithTecH]

This may be of help:

Ghost Tutorial

 

[lucky9]

you can't make an image of ntfs disks with ghost 7, you need 7.5