I spent over 20 hours this weekend trying to copy Ghost 15 backup images from my 2003 server/promise box to a USB drive and back onto the original disk drives. After much work, I finally discovered the problems with "Bootmgr not found" and the "hanging at a windows logo" issues.
Configuration: Windows 7 on a SSD (disk 1, 2 partitions), secondary data (disk 2, 1 partition).
First, I referred to a wonderful post on this forum that detailed what settings I needed to use:
http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/Ghost-15-options-for-recovery/m-p/218202#M21280
The original Ghost 15 CD has a couple of issues:
1) It doesn't automatically delete partitions on the drive first, and then does not always have space to fit the data giving errors back such as : E7C30010 Device cannot write sectors.... or EC90006 The destination is not valid.
2) When you do everything correct, it flags the "SYSTEM RESERVED" partition with the wrong partition type 07 NTFS/HPFS, instead of 1B Fat32 Hidden, and Windows just freezes.
What I did to make this work,
1) Attach USB drive with images to machine, boot on Ghost 15 CD.
2) Start with System Recovery Partition, and select the System Reserved vi2i file on USB drive, and proceed to next screen
3) Delete the partitions on the destination drive (disk 1) and install to unallocated space, and check all of the options:
Primary partition
Check for File System
Set Drive Active
Restore Original Disk Signature
Restore Master Boot Record
Then verify recovery point and write the partition.
4) Next select the "Windows OS" Image from the USB drive (for disk 1) and proceed to next screen
5) Delete the Windows partition (only) on the destination drive (disk 1) and install to unallocated space,
and check all of the options:
Primary partition
Check for File System
Set Drive Active
Then check verify recovery point and write the partition.
When done, go to the Utilities section, and select the partition editor. Now go to the 1st partition (smallest partition) "TYPE" field and change it from a "07" to a "1B" save the results to the table, and reboot.
You should be working fine now.
I cannot tell you how crazy this made me to make this work, but if you follow these instructions, you should be good-to-go. This was done from memory, the day after, so hopefully I have given you enough to figure this out. Don't hold me to this verbatim, please contact Symantec support for any details that are different in your configuration.
Sincerely,
John