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[Startup123]

Hi,

after I made a successful backup recovery point with Ghost 15, I decided to see if I can restore it on another location but I didn't see any options to choose a different location and it says "Restore Anyware is not permitted for this recovery point". During the creation of the backup I didn't see any options for that.

I need  Ghost to restore the data from my current hard drive to any other hard drive in case the current one becomes unusable. How can I do this?

[AllenM Norton Fighter]

HI Startup123,

Welcome back to the Norton Community.

From your other recent thread I believe you have the trial version of Ghost. Have you now purchased Ghost?

The trial version of Ghost does not allow restoral.

If you have purchased Ghost, how are you trying to do the restoral? Are you booting from the recovery CD and trying to restore your computer? Or are you trying to do a restoral within Windows or what?

Where is the "Restore Anywhere" message being seen?

Please let us know step by step what you are doing.

Thanks much

Allen

[DaveH]

Symantec uses to term "Restore Anyware" to mean a hardware independant or "universal restore"

It's how you would make an image on one system and be able to restore the image onto a different hardware platform.

It uses a type of sysprep and it is unavailible in the consumer version of Ghost.

It doesn't mean that you can't restore the image wherever you want, or onto another hard drive.

As for the description shown in the image information It may say "restore anywhare permitted"  but your not going to able to do a hardware independant restore with Ghost anyway.  On a data partition it says "not permitted" because you can't really sysprep a non-operating system partition.

Dave

[DaveH]

Ghost can do a restore over a network, no problems.

[redk9258]

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Startup123 wrote:

Hi,

after I made a successful backup recovery point with Ghost 15, I decided to see if I can restore it on another location but I didn't see any options to choose a different location and it says "Restore Anyware is not permitted for this recovery point". During the creation of the backup I didn't see any options for that.

I need  Ghost to restore the data from my current hard drive to any other hard drive in case the current one becomes unusable. How can I do this?

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Here is a work around to restore to dissimilar hardware using Ghost 15. After you have made a backup open Ghost and under Tasks pick One Time Virtual Conversion. Now convert your backup to a vhd file and choose the option to run mini setup. Now you can restore from a vhd file instead of v2i.

[AllenM Norton Fighter]

H Folks,

The question was whether Startup123 still has the trial version of Ghost or now has a paid version which allows a restore operation.

Also I know what restore anywhere is but even though many believe you cannot use Ghost to restore to different hardware, you most certainly can.

Please see this thread.

Allen

[Startup123]

I'm still using the trial version. Is there some information that says what I can test and what not with the trial version? I'm reading the manual but I want to know certain things that I can't find in the manual. For example, if I create a restoration point backup with the trial version, can I  restore it with the full version? Another thing that is even more important to know is, if I go to Tasks tab and choose One Time Back up, which I think is what I need, and complete the Wizard, at the end screen where the Finish button is, the wizard shows a summary of the backup where the very last line says: "Restore Anywhere is not permitted for this recovery point". The way I interpret this is that I can restore back only on the original hard drive and that probably will require erasing its content.

Here's what I want to be able to do. Make a backup of one of my hard drives that has Vista installed on it. Later this hard drive may have a different content or even not be anymore in the computer. I want to be able to restore the backup on another hard drive and use it in the same way as the original hard drive which could boot and run Vista. Is this possible and how?

[Startup123]

I also have another question. When I make a  backup of the entire hard drive like the one I described in my previous post, how is the size of the hard drive and size of the data handled by Ghost? For example if I make a backup of a very large hard drive that is half full, can I later restore it on another hard drive that is half the size of the original hard drive?

[Startup123]

I made a search on Google and found this post.

http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/Ghost-15-quot-Restore-Anyware-is-not-permitted-...

It appears that the full version also shows this message:

"Restore Anywhere is not permitted for this recovery point"

Any ideas?

[AllenM Norton Fighter]

Hi Folks,

Please allow me to squelsh a few rumors. First regarding Restore Anywhere, Dave gave a pretty good explanantion above. HOwever, please do not confuse this with the ability to restore a computer backup image to another hard drive. That is however what Ghost is intended to do.

Restore anywhere is not supported but that has no affect on your ability to restore your image to a different hard drive.

Again, let me reiterate you can restore your image to another hard drive and to a hard drive in which other hardware is also different. Please refer to the thread I linked to earlier which explains how you would do this.

Let me state that I have personally done this quite a few times and the last time around, I restored my image to a system with radically different hardware and it worked fine. I have been a long time user of Ghost and have used every version since Ghost 9.

Regarding the question about restoring to a different size hard drive. Yes Ghost can do this, There is an option you can choose during restore to resize the image to match the size of the new target hard drive.

The thread I referred to also includes details on the resize option.

Restoring to a smaller hard drive is a bit more tricky but it can also usually be done. The issue you run into sometimes is that say you have a 500GB source drive and now you want to restore to a 250GB target drive. If the data placement of the backup image spans say 300 GB (due to fragmentation) then it will fail to restore to the smaller hard drive because it is replacing sector by sector which includes any fragmentation which might be present.

SO if you truly want to restore to a smaller hard drive, you must do a complete defragmentation of the source hard drive before running the backup to help ensure you won't run into the above scenario.

Restoring to a larger hard drive would not have this issue for obvious reasons.

Lastly, YES when you purchase Ghost 15 it can restore backup images you created with the trial version. The trial is only limited in that it does not allow you to do the actual restoral.

Hope this help and let me know if anything is still not clear.

Regards

Allen