I have just tried to setup "light out restore" but I always get the following message:
Error creating the custom environment
InstallingLor
ECA31796
Error ECA31796: Failed to save attributes for
C:\Boot\EN-US\Bootmgr.exe.Mui
The only thing I can think of is that I have a bootmanager already as I have two drive one with XP and one with Windows7?
Hi GarethMeredith,
Welcome to the Norton Community.
Unfortunately, Lightsout restore is not supported on dual-boot systems and this could be getting further complicated as it sounds like you use a third part boot manager.
From page 56 of the Ghost 15 user guid it says:
You might encounter issues if you try to use the Norton Ghost LightsOut Restore
feature on dual-boot systems. It is not supported.
Lightsout restore is in general a very good feature, however be aware that the one time this would not protect you is if the system hard drive crashed.
I would recommend that you create a Custom Recovery CD. Combined with doing image backups (Backup my Computer) this will give you full protection since you can boot to CD and perform a full system recovery.
Creating a recovery CD is explained starting on page 27 of the Ghost 15 user guide.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes.
Allen
AllenM wrote:
From page 56 of the Ghost 15 user guid it says:
You might encounter issues if you try to use the Norton Ghost LightsOut Restore
feature on dual-boot systems. It is not supported.
Allen,
I assume this refers to using the Microsoft boot manager. I have a multi-boot system with a third party boot manager and Norton Ghost LightsOut Restore works fine. I have also copied the Ghost CD to its own HD partition and I can boot that partition. It works much the same as LightsOut Restore. Just something for my amusement.
Being a big fan of the microsoft boot manager.
I have been able to boot the recovery ISO from both NTFS and FAT32 partitions and been able to start grub from the beloved XP and Vista\Win 7 boot managers.
I threw out a nice bait and didn't even get a bite.
Even though it may not be supported on a dual boot. I remember wanting to try it and I installed it on my test system and it worked without any problems.
It only had one hard drive but that shouldn't matter. I had XP on "C" and Windows 7 on "D" and was using the standard Win7/Vista boot loader. Since I already had XP installed on C and an empty partition for win7, I ended up without a SRP partition. The windows 7 boot files were added to the C drive. Ghost was instaled on windows 7 although I don't think that would matter either because it adds to the Win7 boot loader and the folder structure would be in the same place (C drive).
I can't remember why I didn't like it. I want to say that it's missing something.
Is lights out restore a "restore only" enviroment?
I can't believe I don't remember what I didn't like about it, but it didn't last long on my system.
The file you mention exists both for windows 7 and for the Ghost recovery console. It's in the "boot" folder.
The way the error mentions "failed to save attributes" seems like it's a permissions problem.
You might want to see if the operating system your trying to install Ghost into has proper permissions to the windows 7 "boot" folder.
If you still can't get it to work, If you want I can tell you how to set it up to boot into the whole recovery disk.
Best of luck,
Dave
DaveH wrote:I threw out a nice bait and didn't even get a bite.
The tide wasn't right.
We'll have to differ on boot manager preferences.
LOL, it's all in the presentation.
I use the microsoft boot manager because it's free and it works for me.
Actually, the only reason why i started dual booting was as an extra measure of safety. I want to be able to access the other OS in case I need to try to repair it or pull data off it. I also used to want to be able to install different AV's into each one and be able to scan the other for a "second opinion".
I actually used "boot magic" years ago and on a test system I think I had 17 different installations at one point until the whole thing fell apart.
Recently I just add more hard drives and being limited to 4 primaries per drive hasn't caused any limitations.
I also try not to reboot much, is easier these days to use Virtual PC