Hi,
I have Ghost 15 on a 2 year old laptop with a ssd with a Ghost storage partition. I have backed up images and restored several images successfully without a single hitch, until now. 7 days ago I made the huge mistake of upgrading to win10 because it was plastered all over out tv screens for free upgrade for limited time... so I did. Big mistake because all my backup services and AV programs were deleted. Reinstall did not help. Anyway, I decided to "Rollback" to win7 because I was not able to use NG15 anymore... even through the recovery disk as the previous images were not found. I then called on an IT friend to help and he did repairs with a win7 System recovery disk and this helped me get to a point where I could then restore from a previous NG image. The trouble is these images were only visible via browse and not showing in the Date box wit ALL ticked. And when I did find them browsing... there was the small v2i file missing and is why NG could not see it. Yes, the other two v2i files were there (boot drive and C drive)... but not the other one. The strange thing is, when I browse for it from the desktop outside of the CD and outside of the Ghost programm, that missing file is there. So the 3 files are visible on my storage drive, but only 2 are visible in the CD environment and Ghost program. Below is SS showing these two separate examples. Oh, it wont allow me to upload any file but txt. Oh well... trust me, it is as written above.
What I did to get back to the backup image was scary but it worked. I first ignored the boot drive thinking it never changes anyway so it should be right.... but the restore of C drive image failed. So I then restored the Boot image to its correct partition which worked fine, and then restored the C drive and this time I had success yehhhaaa! So my question is...
1/ What is this small v2i file?
2/ Why is it missing in the recovery environment?
3/ What needs to do to fix this apart from reinstalling as I done that twice already?
Keep in mind that all was well before the win 10 calamity. BTW, I forgot to add ... win 10 messed with the BIOS because it was impossible to enter it no matter what keys pressed (I use F2) but after the IT bloke finished with the win7 repair disk... it was miraculously healed.
Thanks.... Mike
Ok, I managed to convert the SS's into pdf if you want to look.