I have Norton Ghost 10 on my Windows XP Dell Dimension E310. Since my primary partition is less than half full and one compressed Norton Ghost backup will barely fit on the restore partition, I tried to use Norton Partition Magic to increase the size of the backup partition. The Dell does not have a diskette drive, so I was unable to create backup diskettes.
Partition Magic crashed part way through the repartitioning operation with some error message about “not enough sectors”. Now the Dell will not boot to anything except to the Utility Partition, Hard Disk Diagnostics or an external CD. I get the BSOD with the error message that Windows has shut down to prevent damage with a stop code:
0x0000024 (0x00180023, 0x8AD18700, 0xC00000102, 0x00000000). On other bootups the stop code remains the same except for the last 6 characters of the second term in the parenthetical.
I was left with a reduced size primary partition, an unchanged restore partition and some unallocated hard drive storage.
I tried restoring from the Norton Ghost 10 CD. The restore appears to run properly, but I am returned to the Norton Ghost menu when it finishes with out rebooting. When I exit and reboot, I get the same BSOD.
I tried reinstalling the XP operating system and Norton Ghost. The restore partition remained intact and I again tried to restore from the same Norton Ghost restore image. The restore once again proceeds normally, but again returns to the Norton Ghost menu without rebooting. When I exit and reboot, I get the same BSOD. The restore image validates and I have tried restoring first without, then with restoring the MBR.
I really don’t want to have to reinstall all programs and files from scratch. Can someone help me restore from my Norton Ghost 10 backup?