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I have the Norton Ghost 14 trial download and I made a Recovery CD. I am not sure what a auto recovery cd is.
Nor am I. It may mean that the disk is bootable. I hadn't heard that term before.
The Recovery CD, that either comes with the package or you can generate/ customize it with Ghost, is a bootable CD. However, to provide an ‘auto’ part, that would require scripting – something that we do not provide support for or hooks in that environment. But conceivably it is doable.
OK - I used the wrong description. I'm asking how to create a Symantec Recover Disk CD. Page 20 of the manual says "From the main Norton Ghost window, click Tasks > Create Recovery Disk, click OK, and then click Next."
On my Tasks list, there is NO option labelled "Create Recovery Disk". This is what I'm talking about. There is no option anywhere to "Create Recovery Disk".
If I understand the manual correctly, this process will copy necessary system drivers to the bootable CD. I'm having the problem that while I can boot with the Ghost 14 CD and run the backup software, it does not see my Western Digital My Book USB backup drive. I was hoping that creating the Recovery Disk process would recognize my USB backup drive.
Anyway, the option described in the manual just isn't there.
Ahhh ... the wonder of context sensitive menus! I can sense you feelings for them are similar to my own personal feelings for them.
The key to this is to click on the button/ tab on the left side of the Ghost window marked Home. From the home page, you can do Tasks | Create Recovery Disk.
I'm sorry that we did not do a better job of exposing this feature.
Thank you so much for admitting to feelings so many of us share!
One of the things I like about VISTA is for example the way that Control Panel lists in words tasks that you might want to do whereas the old Classic Control Panel gave you a bunch of icons that were of little use unless you knew already what they would do!
That's why development teams need "idiot boys" and not just experts ......
Thanks so much, Johan. There it was, just barely hidden from view! Although I did not tell it to add any drivers, the created Recovery Disk, when booted from, now sees my WD USB backup drive and I can select my backup file for recovery. Not very useful until I could do that. ;-)
Strange that booting from the Ghost disk would not see the drive. But all's well that ends well.
Is making a 'Recovery Disk' (CD) actually possible with the Norton 14 Trial Download? I'm trialing it right now - and I don't remember it giving me the option to download an .ISO file or anything?
It asks me when I click 'Tasks' and then 'Create Recovery Disk' to point it to the location of the Symantec Recovery Disk - but I'm assuming I don't have that?
kmrussell wrote:
Is making a 'Recovery Disk' (CD) actually possible with the Norton 14 Trial Download? I'm trialing it right now - and I don't remember it giving me the option to download an .ISO file or anything?
It asks me when I click 'Tasks' and then 'Create Recovery Disk' to point it to the location of the Symantec Recovery Disk - but I'm assuming I don't have that?
The Norton Ghost 14 Trial does not include the Recovery Disk ISO. This is available to customers who purchase the full version. Thanks!
Same problem with XP…how can something be called a “trial” when the critical component – restoration – can’t be tried!!!
Actually you can do a restore with the trial. However, the limitation is that you can not restore the volume where Windows is running from, which for most users is just the C: drive. This is because Windows actively prevents it. So, you can thank Microsoft for the limitation. You can, however, restore all other volumes as long as Ghost can get a lock on the drive. You also can restore files with File and Folder backup as well.
Do I understand the last post to mean that even if you purchase Ghost, you can’t recover the drive on which Windows is running?
No, with the purchased version of Ghost you can restore the drive Windows is running on. That is what the System Recovery Disk (SRD) is for. With the SRD you boot into a WinPE environment that allows us to restore the system volume. But WinPE is a licensed product from Microsoft, so it only comes with the purchased copy of Ghost.
It is because of Ghost backup technology and the use of the SRD that we can restore a system to the exact state it was in at the time of the backup. This is an extremely powerful ability. For example if you system becomes corrupted or picks up some really bad malware, Ghost can restore it back to the state of the last good backup and it will be as if the problem never occurred.
I still have some time left on the trial version and am still undecided. It seems that the trial version is blocking my access to system restore....and that there is no way to disable it other than uninstalling.
Am I correct?
rmartin, if you're talking about 'Windows System Restore', then no. Ghost is no way blocks your access to regular 'Windows System Restore' which is part of XP/Vista which you can access via Safe Mode and Regular Mode - however this only restores system SETTINGS such as the registry and critical Windows System Files ... and not your documents and personal files.
What Jeffery was telling you is, you can't do a 'bare-metal restore' as they call it, if you're system FULLY crashes let's say, with simply the trial version. This is fair and I understand this.
However, even with your TRIAL backups - as long as they have been backing up properly to say your external USB hard drive, you can PURCHASE the full version should you crash during your trial .. which then gives you access to the System Restore Disc (albeit you'll have to do this on a working system) ... burn a copy of that ... then boot from it to do a full restore to your new replacement hard drive.
Also, as Jeffery was saying, you can STILL use all restore functions during the trial EXCEPT for the Ghost System Recovery Boot Disc. Trial still gives you access to restore individual files, folders, and even entire drives ... as long as they are not the BOOT drive ... hence you would have to restore a 'boot drive' OUTSIDE of Windows with the Ghost System Recovery Boot Disc.
Thanks, kmrussell, you are correct! And to take what you said a step further, in a bad situation when you restore the system drive from a backup with our SRD, we even restore System Restore and all the things it ‘backs up’! 