I have an iso file already.
So is the sole purpose of that file the creation of a recovery disc?
The version I have is missing _AllWin and _SrdOnly from the file name.
Any idea how the version I have differs from the version in your link?
Your ISO is probably a combined install/ SRD version. Create a CD and boot from the CD.
I had to switch the Boot Device Control from UEFI to UEFI and LEGACY to get it to boot from the disc but it worked.
Yes I could read the hard discs.
Anyway, this whole Ghost/SSR and UEFI-GPT/BIOS-MBR thing was taking so I decided to try the inbuilt windows imaging utility and that seems to have worked fine. Of course I have not yet had occassion to try and restore from it, so there is no telling how that might go. Anyway so far so good, as the man who fell off the skyscapper was heard to say as he passed the 50th floor.
Well I wish I hadn't done that.
After booting from that Ghost disc (which took longer than normal boot), my normal boots from the SSD take just as long.
The Norton Ghost disc has complete f..ked my system.
I am going to try and reinstall from the images I made using Windows 7 built in utilities.
Whatever happens that is the last time I will go anywhere near Norton Ghost.
Hasn't fixed the problem and now some of the accounts on this PC are no longer password protected.
Will have to start over from scratch.
I don;t know how much of that can be blamed on Norton Ghost and how much on Win7 System Restore and how much on the Norton Support Guy I had to get help from to after Internet Security stopped working (had to give him access to my system).
At the very least be wary of using Norton Ghost with UEFI systems.
Found it is all the standard accounts that have lost their passwords - anyone can now open them. Admin accounts are still password protected it seems. How the hell did that happen?
Well I'm an idiot,
Following the posts above I spent a full day reformating all my drives and reinstalled everything and I still had slow boot times.
After much investigation I found it was because I had left the Boot Control Device setting to UEFI and LEGACY and that was extending the time to post. ARGH!!!!!!!! so simple.
Setting that back to UEFI and the system is booting fast again.
I still can't explain why the password protection vanished from the standard accounts.
Anyway all is well now. Almost.
If you check the screen shot on the first page of this thread you will see my Boot and OS disk is Disk 0. Since the reinstallation that has beceom Disk 1 and the Data disk is not Disk 0. If add an additional disk it become Disk 0 and the Data disk becomes Disk 1 and the Boot/OD disk becomes Disk2.
Anyone have any idea why they are in reverse order and how to correct it?
GTF wrote:If you check the screen shot on the first page of this thread you will see my Boot and OS disk is Disk 0. Since the reinstallation that has beceom Disk 1 and the Data disk is not Disk 0. If add an additional disk it become Disk 0 and the Data disk becomes Disk 1 and the Boot/OD disk becomes Disk2.
Anyone have any idea why they are in reverse order and how to correct it?
GTF,
I assume your OS drive is connected to SATA port 1 on the MB and the Data drive is connected to port 2 and the extra drive to port 3. As it was before. Your BIOS shows the OS drive as Drive 0 but Windows doesn't. It's a pain but Win7 and Win8 do this at times. It doesn't affect your OS performance.
Maybe play with your SATA ports but it might not help.
Brian_K writes: "It's a pain but Win7 and Win8 do this at times."
It's getting to the point where the mere mention of Microsoft will send shivers down your spine. They are losing market share to Apple in a big way and they are virtually nonexistent in the Android dominated world phone market - Even Apple despite all their hype, are just also rans in that market. This is no more than Microsoft deserve given the buggy software and all the really bad design decision they've been making (like the Metro interface for mouse driven desktops and they still place the User folder on the OS drive and make it very difficult to move any of it and impossible to move all of it to a separate data drive, etc)
Here's one more for you, one that's more relevant to this site:
Aside from the extremely bad documentation for Windows Backup and Restore, which has everyone guessing about it can actually do it has unexpected limitations they have neglected to mention. I say unexpected because they're very happy to tell that Windows NTFS can support drives larger than 2 TB but they don't tell that the inbuilt backup and restore utility will not.
I just took a fresh image of the OS drive and that worked fine. Then I thought - "Now I'll do another of the full system", i.e. all drives. A dialog popped up telling that volumes larger than 2088958 megabytes cannot be protected and the backup was aborted - that's 2.1 TB (rounded up). See image:
It seems SSR is my only option now.