Working with a Dell Precision M4600 laptop Windows 7 Pro x64.
Ghost 15
Two external USB drives
1) Seagate Free Agent Go Flex 1.5 TB.
2) Western Digital Passport 320 G
Both are formatted as NTFS. I have been able to create images on both on different occassions.
Recently we have been backing up the laptop over a network to a NAS. Due to a virus attack, we want to restore an image from a week ago.
Issues with network drivers prevented us from accessing the NAS. So I tried a workaround that has worked in the past which was to copy the desired image files to a USB drive, plug the usb drive into the laptop and boot from the Ghost recovery disk.
I tried the 1.5T drive first... but Ghost would not recognize it. Thinking it may have had something to do with a drive >1T, I tried booting with the 320G drive attached.
Ghost would not see that one either.
This is the first time I have seen Ghost boot disk not recognizing a USB drive.
Suggestions greatly appreciated.
Working with a Dell Precision M4600 laptop Windows 7 Pro x64.
Ghost 15
Two external USB drives
1) Seagate Free Agent Go Flex 1.5 TB.
2) Western Digital Passport 320 G
Both are formatted as NTFS. I have been able to create images on both on different occassions.
Recently we have been backing up the laptop over a network to a NAS. Due to a virus attack, we want to restore an image from a week ago.
Issues with network drivers prevented us from accessing the NAS. So I tried a workaround that has worked in the past which was to copy the desired image files to a USB drive, plug the usb drive into the laptop and boot from the Ghost recovery disk.
I tried the 1.5T drive first... but Ghost would not recognize it. Thinking it may have had something to do with a drive >1T, I tried booting with the 320G drive attached.
Ghost would not see that one either.
This is the first time I have seen Ghost boot disk not recognizing a USB drive.
Suggestions greatly appreciated.
Tomster2 wrote:
Answered my own question.
For those of you having similar problems the Dell M4600 laptop has both:
USB 3.0 ports (right side, toward the rear) and
USB 2.0 ports (left side, toward the rear).
Ghost won't recognize anything in a USB 3.0 port. That is where I had plugged in the USB drives.
On a hunch I checked the specs and found about the 2.0 and 3.0 and switched to the USB 2.0 port... rebooted to the Ghost boot disk and I could see the images.
Cheers!
Glad to read all is well
The other point to remember is that Ghost will have a problem with the large drives [2TB and up] they have to be partitioned and reformated, for now.
I'll mark this thread 'solved' by you 
Thanks for posting back with the solution.
Problems with large drives????
Is that with creating a Ghost image for a source drive greater than 2T... or
Is that with saving (and recovering) a Ghost image to a large (>2T) external drive?
Thanks