This is a reply to previous thread of this subject which was locked for some reason. Ghost 15 has the same problem in Windows 7 (at least when used with NIS 2009 or Comcast Norton Security Suite) as Ghost 14 had with XP and Vista: Ghost causes Windows Home Server backups to fail. Although there may be other complexities, the solution for Ghost 15 is about the same as for Ghost 14 -- remove the Symantec VSS Provider from the registry. (See http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-360/Windows-Home-Server-Connector-and-N360-v3-Problems/m-p/132836#M18337) After you delete the key, Ghost 15 will continue to work and so will WHS backup (you may have to reboot between using the programs; maybe not).
Steps:
1. At the Command Prompt, execute "vssadmin list providers". You'll see that there are two providers, both the Symantec VSS Provider and the Microsoft Shadow Copy Provider. You want to get rid of the Symantec provider. We don't know what value it adds, but it does create this problem.
2. Still at the Cmd prompt, run "net stop vss"
3. In Regedit, delete this key -- the second one is a subkey of the first (if you think deleting it will cause a different problem, you can export it first so you can merge it back into the registry later):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servi ces\VSS\Providers\{262b716e-bb23-41b5-aaef-e2c15e7 67167}]
@="Symantec Software VSS Provider"
"Type"=dword:00000002
"Version"="1.0"
"VersionId"="{312524e0-c869-46ce-849b-7d99a24257cd }"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servi ces\VSS\Providers\{262b716e-bb23-41b5-aaef-e2c15e7 67167}\CLSID]
@="{790f2886-9889-4c99-8ef5-531add05d044}"
4. At the Cmd prompt, run "net start vss"
5. At the Command Prompt, run "vssadmin list providers" again. Now, you should have only the Microsoft Shadow Copy Provider.
That should do it.