Restore Questions...HELP!

I purchased Ghost 12 in 2008 online, but didn't realize the bootable recovery disc had to be downloaded separately. After years of backups that were never needed, I now find myself needing to restore my OS drive after a Trojan attack. When I select Recover My Computer while still in Vista, Ghost shows me all the valid recovery points, starts the recovery process, then tells me to restart with the recovery disc in the drive.

 

I have several questions about the restore:

 

How can I get a Ghost 12 Recovery Disc?

 

I have access to a Ghost 15 Recovery Disc which loads into DOS, finds the backup drive and all the restore points, but it will not restore. When I attempt to restore my C: I get the error messages:

EC950006 DESTINATION NOT VALID

EC950005 RECOVERY POINT NOT VALID

 

Any ideas what could be causing this and how can I remedy?? Please help!

Thanks in advance

Phil

 

Further to this, does the disc to which I am restoring need to be unalloctaed space? If so, can I do that from within the recovery environment?

 

Thanks

The Ghost Recovery Environment is NOT DOS. It is Windows PE 2.1.

 

Yes, try unallocated space.

 

Have a look at THIS THREAD on how to edit the target drive.

 

I have to leave for a while, but will check back later.

Thanks for you reply. I knew the Recovery Environment wasn't DOS, just had no better way of describing the actions.

 

Would the drive space allocation thing cause the errors I am getting?

EC950006 DESTINATION NOT VALID

EC950005 RECOVERY POINT NOT VALID



I assume the recovery points are good as I can browse them from within windows. They are on an external drive, but the Recovery Environment recognizes them, so again, I assume they will restore correctly.


Bill_Hubbard wrote:

Thanks for you reply. I knew the Recovery Environment wasn't DOS, just had no better way of describing the actions.

 

Would the drive space allocation thing cause the errors I am getting?

EC950006 DESTINATION NOT VALID

EC950005 RECOVERY POINT NOT VALID



I assume the recovery points are good as I can browse them from within windows. They are on an external drive, but the Recovery Environment recognizes them, so again, I assume they will restore correctly.


Boot from the Ghost Recovery Disc (SRD) and click recover files. Open your backup in Recover Point Browser. Instead of recovering files, use the verify function to make sure the Recovery Point is valid.

 

You mentioned having trojan. Maybe you could use one of these to eliminate it..

Norton Power Eraser - Be careful, it is very aggressive and can delete things that are not malware.

Malware Bytes (free version)

Spybot Search and Destory

MS Standalone System Sweeper - This is a powerful offline scanner.

Microsoft Safety Scanner

 

I would bet one of them would clean your PC up.

I have (to the best of my knowledge) cleaned my pc of any trojans, malware, etc. however, I'll try the Standalone Sweeper to see if it comes up with anything.

 

I get a BSOD as the desktop is loading if I allow msconfig to start the computer normally. If I start only system files, the pc is very slow and eventually crashes. PC boots fine into Safe Mode. I want to restore the pc to about a week ago when it was all good.

You should verify your image Bill, that will decide if you need to fix your system or not.  If your image verifies you should be able to restore it.

 

As Red said, boot to the recovery disk and go to Analyze > Explorer my computer

Select and open your recent image.  To get the "Verify" button to become active you may need to click up one level on the left side so that the image name is highlighted.

 

If it passes verification, it should have wanted to restore back into the same place.  I don't understand the error you got.

Make sure you can also "see" your C drive from the recovery disk when browsing the system..

 

Dave

Problem solved...and thanks to all of those who replied.

I contacted Norton with my product key and they supplied me with the .iso of the Ghost 12 recovery Disc. It worked perfectly, restoring to a point almost 2 weeks ago, before I got hit. It was all automatic and seemless - no need to delete installations or unallocate space.

FYI...Ghost 15 Recovery won't work with recovery points created with Ghost 12.  Although it sees the points, it says they are not valid.

Cheers,

Phil

That's good news Bill.