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I have installed Ghost 14 in my laptop, and OS is windows vista 64-bit ultimate, found no issue. I think Ghost 14 is fully compatible with 64bit vista. and so is Ghost 12
Thanks.
Have you restored any images with it yet on your 64 bit system?
I've restored 64bit Vista a few times.
If you don't have drivers missing in the validate process then you're fine. Otherwise, the SRD will need 32bit version of the drivers.
Thanks.
I've don't always run the validation, but the 5 or so times I have, it always shows the same missing drivers - Ethernet card and WAN miniport. I've never worried about them since I assume they are only necessary if you are restoring via a network.
(And the one time Ghost was not able to see the SATA hd in the recovery environment, the validation did not flag a missing driver, and the custom recovery disk did help either.)
You only need to run the validate to figure out which drivers you need to put on the SRD. After that I don't think it is necessary anymore.
Yes, as long as you can see the SATA drive you should be fine. That's the same for me with the Ethernet card and WAN miniport were missing too, but I didn't add any drivers for them as I'm not restoring from a network drive.
I have had one situation where my Custom SRD failed to load the hard disk drivers and I couldn't see the drives. However, there is an option to manually load the drivers after it come to the menu, that worked for me. I have the drivers stored on the backup drive too. Or I guess just a reboot would have solved the problem as it has worked fine all the other times.
Norton Ghost 14.0 Recovery Environment uses 32-bit Vista WinPE. If there are any missing drivers from the recovery disk, nothing to worry. You can manually add the platform compatible (32-bit version) drivers manually in recovery environment.
To add the drivers manually, use "Load a driver" option under Utilities in the Norton Ghost recovery environment window.
Apart from this, Norton Ghost is fully compatible with Windows Vista 64-bit.
--Vinod
I guess I wasn't clear, I meant I've run the validation on 5 different computers.
I was never able to locate the correct SATA drivers for that problem Vista computer. People told me to try to find them on the chipset manufacturer's site, but that led to a dead end. I had hoped to find them on the installed hard drive, seems they should be there, but as of yet have been unable to determine where they are. I looked I think in System32/Drivers but found nothing. On the other hand, I guess the SATA drivers would need to be stored in firmware, not on the harddrive itself.
I do not think the validate finds the drives, if that's what you were expecting. It only seems to list the drivers needed. I just get the drivers from the device manufacturers myself.
Do you know what motherboard you have, assuming the SATA controller is on the motherboard? You should be able to get the drivers from their Website. Or you may have received a CD with your computer. They are required to install the operating system.
If you use some other controller (add on card) then go to the card manufacturer's website.
What I have found so far is if the Vista installer can see the hard disk then the SRD will see the hard disk too without any additional drivers. If the Vista installer needs drivers to see the hard disk then the same goes for the SRD. Basically, the SRD is the same as the Vista installer but only the 32bit version of it.
Apart from that, if the hard disk is not partitoned and formatted, you won't be able to see it in the SRD Command Window nor the Explorere. Also, I found that the partition utility didn't seem to work for me so I use the Vista installer to partition and format the drive and then do the restore in the SRD environment.
You can find the name of the SATA controller in Device Manager of Vista. Then search the drivers on the manufacturer's website.
If when you say Vista installer you mean the installation routine of Ghost, then I can tell you that Ghost 14 installed just fine on this one computer, but the Recovery Environment could not see the SATA disk.
I did look in Device Manager to determine the SATA controller, but it did note list SATA, showed something odd like SCSI, even tho it definately was SATA. I also determined manuf for the mobo and chipset, can't remember who it was now, but searches on those manuf's sites led to a dead end.
By Vista installer, I mean the Operating System installer, not the Ghost installer. I guess you didn't install the operating system and it probably came with the computer.
Also, SATA controller is normally listed under the IDE ATA/ATAP controllers (at least on all my computers they are).
This CPUID's CPU-Z can tell you what motherboard you have. You can get it from here: http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
They also have another program called PC Wizard which can give you detailed information about your motherboard and controller and other things about your computer http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php
OK thanks.
I'll look into that.