My system was a single disk drive with C: containing the system and programs, and D: containing data. Windows 7.
6 weeks ago I bought a SSD and moved C: (along with a 100mg System directory, whatever that is) to the SSD and left the old hard drive as it was.
Today I upgraded the firmware on the SSD (I don't know why...) and it didn't take, trashing the SSD. Fortunately I made a backup just before doing it.
The old drive booted, C: was 6 weeks old and D: was current. I tried to restore, but it claimed my last backup was 6 weeks ago.
I booted from the Ghost CD and restored my last backup.
When I rebooted, nothing had changed; it was still my 6 week old C: and my current D:.
I dug around and found that Ghost had restored my current C: to E:! Don't know exactly why, now I want to know how to fix it.
If I could copy my E: to C: I think that would fix it; assuming the 100mb system directory works properly.
Or I could just make E: the partition windows uses rather than C:
Your help on this would be greatly appreciated. I know it is possible, but I can't remember how.
To add to that, my DSL modem stopped working today and they say they will be out tomorrow to fix it. An hour later my internet came back, though the light on the modem is still out. Crappy day, but the stock market is up.
Okay, I had C: on the SSD and D: on the harddrive.
When the SSD stopped working I booted the Ghost CD and recovered System, C:, and D:.
It copied D: to D: (well, I guess it did; but they were identical anyhow), and C: to F:. I don't know why it didn't copy it to C:, but it didn't. (The current C: is from before I got the SSD. It works, but doesn't have anything I did in the last 6 weeks (and I am not sure just what I did in the last 6 weeks)
So, I want to use the Windows/Programs on F:, but the computer uses C:.
I could do a factory restore and do a Ghost restore. That should work, but seems like a last resort.
What I want to do is get Windows to use F: as the boot directory instead of C:.
A short time ago I booted off the Ghost CD and told it to restore my C: good backup to my obsolete C: drive, but it said it couldn't do that operation.
My system was a single disk drive with C: containing the system and programs, and D: containing data. Windows 7.
6 weeks ago I bought a SSD and moved C: (along with a 100mg System directory, whatever that is) to the SSD and left the old hard drive as it was.
Today I upgraded the firmware on the SSD (I don't know why...) and it didn't take, trashing the SSD. Fortunately I made a backup just before doing it.
The old drive booted, C: was 6 weeks old and D: was current. I tried to restore, but it claimed my last backup was 6 weeks ago.
I booted from the Ghost CD and restored my last backup.
When I rebooted, nothing had changed; it was still my 6 week old C: and my current D:.
I dug around and found that Ghost had restored my current C: to E:! Don't know exactly why, now I want to know how to fix it.
If I could copy my E: to C: I think that would fix it; assuming the 100mb system directory works properly.
Or I could just make E: the partition windows uses rather than C:
Your help on this would be greatly appreciated. I know it is possible, but I can't remember how.
To add to that, my DSL modem stopped working today and they say they will be out tomorrow to fix it. An hour later my internet came back, though the light on the modem is still out. Crappy day, but the stock market is up.
So your screen shot is showing the old hard drive and if you click on the F drive in My Computer can see the folder structure of a windows installation? (it looks pretty much the same as your C drive)
Where it shows HP (F) and the unallocated space to the right of it used to be your E drive full of data?
Did you have all your data backed up as well?
Dave
Edit- couple more questions.
I assume your images must be on a removable drive that we can't see, can you find the most recent image you made if you look for it using explorer and not Ghost?
That is correct. C: is my window/programs from before I installed the SSD. F: is my windows/programs current to this morning.
D: is the only data directory there every was. I had my data backed up also, but that didn't matter because I was using D: (both before and after getting the SSD) on the harddrive, and that wasn't damaged.
So, I want to use F: instead of C:. What would happen if I deleted C:? Would the system be smart enough to use F:, or would I just have a dead box. Of course then I could fall back on just doing a full restore; but I just hate to depend on backups when maybe there is another way. (comes from using computers for over 40 years, when they could be counted on to let you down)
Sure, I can go to the external drive and look at the backups there. Everything is sound as far as I know.
Something must have been in that location before, unless you just had a very large area of unallocated space just sitting there?
Do you want to do this correctly, or is this just a temporatry thing until you get your SSD fixed or replaced.
I say that because I imagine you could just use EasyBCD and add the "new" version of windows into your boot menu and use that for a while if your planning on soon moving everything back to another drive.
But if this is semi-permanent, the "correct" way to fix it would be to restore your most current image back to where it belongs and then remove the bad restore that is in the wrong place.
Okay, I did a system restore and then tried to restore my backed up directories.
Same result as before. Instead of replacing the existing C: with the backed up C:, it restored it as F:
Apparently I have to start with no partitions on my harddrive. How do I do that? I thought maybe one of the utilities on the Ghost disk would help, but it doesn't.
Is there anyway to format a drive from Ghost, delete all the partitions, or something similar that would faciliate my restore?
I am getting a little frantic here. I did a full backup using NTI before doing a factory restore. When the factory restore didn't help me do a Ghost restore, I restored from NTI to try and get back to a functioning system, but it reported that I didn't have enough space on the disk. Same disk I had just backed up from. Why in heck didn't it work? (rhetorical question, this isn't a NTI group.)
All I can think to do now is pull the disk out, attach it to my wife's computer and format it. Put it back in my computer and restore the Ghost backup.
If you could make a note of the error it gives you it would be helpful
The odd thing is that when your restoring it into the wrong location it is smaller than the original partition.
The F drive shows 48GB and the C drive is 60GB
Another thing that is different is that it restores as a logical drive and the original is a primary.
On that screenshot on the previous page you see it is "greyed out" or unavailible for the partition type.
However for your restore the "primary" button should be selected. Maybe that is causing the error.
There is also a button there that says "delete drive", it really should be called delete partition.
If you really wanted to delete a partition you could highlight the HP partition and delete it and then try to restore the image into that now unallocated space.
But not knowing the error your getting I would hate for you to delete it and not be able to continue because of the error.
Is there anyway to format a drive from Ghost, delete all the partitions, or something similar that would faciliate my restore?
I am getting a little frantic here. I did a full backup using NTI before doing a factory restore. When the factory restore didn't help me do a Ghost restore, I restored from NTI to try and get back to a functioning system, but it reported that I didn't have enough space on the disk. Same disk I had just backed up from. Why in heck didn't it work? (rhetorical question, this isn't a NTI group.)
All I can think to do now is pull the disk out, attach it to my wife's computer and format it. Put it back in my computer and restore the Ghost backup.
I would be grateful for easier alternatives.
I use Ghost v.14. If you are trying to zero out your disk and start over, you might find the following link helpful. Steps 1 through 11 will leave you with a disk with completely unallocated space. You can then restore your partitions one at a time. I always keep a copy of the Disk Management for all my disks so if I have to do a complete restore I know exactly how the partitions are laid out, although I'm not sure the order matters as long as you know which partition is the active partition.
