ldvs wrote:OK, I found the GHO file, now what do I do?
Once you select the image, on the next screen you select the destination (the partition or disk you want to restore).
If it's a partition, you first select the drive and then you will need to select the partition.
Just be Very careful that you get the right drive, double check it by the size because you won't see any drive letters for them.
Dave
Followed you instructions. After I selected the destination of the restore. I selected "preserve file", 'OK" at next screen then received message "Output error file to the following location: A:GHOSTERR.TXT"
I then clicked OK - received Error message "Cannot open GHOSTERR.TXT - insert diskette (434)"
ldvs wrote:I selected "preserve file", 'OK" at next screen then received message "
I can't recall ever seeing "preserve file".
I'm sorry, I didn't say that right. It comes up with a screen that says "Preserve Image". Gives you a choice to preserve, delete, or cancel. I chose "Preserve" first, when that didn't work, I went through the process again and chose "Delete" That ended up with the same message.
DaveH wrote:
I would have thought you could boot the recovery disk but you just wouldn't be able to access any of the drives.But with the Ghost 9 disk you can hit <F6> when it's loading and install drivers from a floppy.
When Ghost 9 came out, you had to use a floppy to install XP onto a SATA drive anyway so most people who did would know about the floppy routine.
I'm not sure if Ghost32 needs driver support, the DOS versions of ghost doesn't need drivers for NTFS or most SATA drives and ghost32 really is just the DOS version with a 32bit wrapper.
Dave
Actually, I wouldn't even try to deal with loading drivers in WinPE 1.0 (XP based). Ghost32 runs just fine in WinPE 2.0 (Vista based) and WinPE 3.0 (Windows 7 based).
Oh, in case you didn't see my edit previously, the Ghost 10 SRD works fine with SATA / NTFS drives. It just doesn't work if you use AHCI. I personally wouldn't use this old of a version of Ghost with hardware that is capable of AHCI anyway since I have more modern versions available. Doesn't Ghost32 8.2 have problems with sector aligned partitions anyway like Vista and Windows 7 use?
I never seen that error either. I think you must be getting the settings wrong. If your still having trouble I'll try making a few screen shots or something. When you choose the destination make sure your picking the right partition or drive.
Red- I could have sworn the DOS ghost can read or write to a AHCI drive as well as SATA, maybe I'm wrong but the system I used it the most on with SATA drives didn't support AHCI in the first place.
As for the alignment issue, I don't think that even matters unless you are restoring an image onto a new drive. I was using it for a windows 7 system before and was just restoring the OS partition into the same place and it worked fine.
I think I also seen Brian state on another forum that if your restoring to a new drive you can make an aligned partition first and then use Ghost 2003 to restore an image into it and it will boot.
Most of my systems don't really matter because I dual boot with XP and Windows 7 is on cylinder aligned partitions.
Windows 7 doesn't care if it's installed on an offset partition or not. Since my hard drives are not SSD's I felt no need to create offset partitions for Windows 7 and just used XP created partitions.
Dave