This has been incredibly frustrating. My netbook crashed so I put in a new hard drive (SSD). Recoeverd it to factory setting and operating system. Tried restoring several Ghost (10.0 booted from recovery discs) recovery points (*.v2i) and none of them work. I just get a "File C;_....v2i needs to be opened. Insert the last media of the backup set into drive d;\". Well, the backups are on an SD card taht is already in the d: driveso I have no idea what this means.
I've also since purchased, downloaded and installed Ghost 15 on an external drive and moved the backup files to this same external drive. When I try to restore from external drive to C: it still fails.
What gives? Why did I buy this product and religeously create backups if it is incapable of actually restoring them in my time of greatest need?
I'm using an Asus EeePC 900 running Windows XP Home edition. I've got a number of backup *.iv21 files saved on an SD card (where I originally created them) and have since also copied them to an external hard drive.
I don't even know how to get into the recovery environment now that I have downloaded and installed Ghost 15 from the download site. I unzipped all the files and copied them onto a CD but that CD does not act as a recovery discon bootup and I cannot find anywhere how to create a recovery disk from within Ghost.
I originally installed Ghost on the external drive and when I tried to recover the backup to the C: drive they failed. Now I have installed Ghost on theC: drive in hopes that I could create a reovery disc from it--but to no avail.
Should I be able to recover from a single *.iv2i file or are more files needed? Any/all help welcomes. I have no idea how to mount or verify the recovery points if I cannot get into the recovery environment.
You can mount a recovery point in Windows. Just right click the file, Mount, accept the drive letter, it's done.
You can Verify recovery points in Windows from the Ghost GUI.
To restore an .iv2i you also need every .iv2i that was created before that .iv2i. You also need the parent .v2i. Do you have all those files? They must be in the same folder. It sounds like you don't have the .v2i. Is that correct?
You download the Ghost Recovery Environment from the download site where you purchased Ghost. It is an ISO file that needs to be burnt to a CD with an app like ImgBurn.
Any questions?
This has been incredibly frustrating. My netbook crashed so I put in a new hard drive (SSD). Recoeverd it to factory setting and operating system. Tried restoring several Ghost (10.0 booted from recovery discs) recovery points (*.v2i) and none of them work. I just get a "File C;_....v2i needs to be opened. Insert the last media of the backup set into drive d;\". Well, the backups are on an SD card taht is already in the d: driveso I have no idea what this means.
I've also since purchased, downloaded and installed Ghost 15 on an external drive and moved the backup files to this same external drive. When I try to restore from external drive to C: it still fails.
What gives? Why did I buy this product and religeously create backups if it is incapable of actually restoring them in my time of greatest need?