USB Flash drives are now as large as hard drives used to be but when you start Norton Ghost under Windows XP/Vista/7, USB Flash drives do not show up.
I understand we cannot create/restore USB Flash Drive images.Why?
Tasks > Options > Browse only sets the default destination for backups.
Thread question is why the USB Flash Drives themselves cannot be imaged?
c627627 wrote:Tasks > Options > Browse only sets the default destination for backups.
Thread question is why the USB Flash Drives themselves cannot be imaged?
USB Flash drives typically use a different file system; if formatted to NTFS / FAT they could be used (in theory).
USB Flash drives are now as large as hard drives used to be but when you start Norton Ghost under Windows XP/Vista/7, USB Flash drives do not show up.
I understand we cannot create/restore USB Flash Drive images.Why?
Flash memory seems to be a popular request for Ghost to be able to handle..
Oddly enough, the the older version of Ghost and now Symantec Ghost (part of Ghost Solution Suite) can do this. If you happen to have an old Ghost 10 CD, it contains Ghost32, version 8.2. It can do what you want. Copy .\I386\SHELL\GHOST\RESTOREGHOST.EXE and rename it Ghost32.exe. It will run under Windows too, just not on active drives.
redk9258, you said to run Ghost32, version 8.2, and it could image/reimage USB Flash drives.
Is this is it? I ran it under Windows XP and it only lists the fixed 60GB, 1 TB and two 2TB drives but not the 2GB USB Flash drive.
The 2GB USB Flash drive shows up under My Computer, but not under Ghost32 v8.2. Did I do something wrong?
Interesting, my 4GB USB drive shows up without a problem in Win 7 64-bit. I wonder if it has something to do with the chipset on the motherboard or something.
All my flash drives also show up in Ghost 8.2
I was also disappointed that Ghost 15 doesn't let you image flash drives or removable SDHC cards because most of mine are also bootable.
Dave
Is your flash drive a regular one that has just one partition?
Or does it have that funky autorun thing or U3 menu?
(Drives with autorun actually show up twice in "My Computer". Once as a virtual CD to perform the autorun and then a second drive and drive letter as a removable device).
Dave
I tried different Flash Drives, 2GB, 4GB and 16GB, all are FAT32, one partition nothing else on them.
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Resolved: Older versions of Ghost simply do not work with newer chipsets. I tried these flash drives on an old AMD Athlon XP CPU using an nForce2 chipset and sure enough they showed up! So it works but only on older chipsets.
I found Symantec Ghost 8.2 inside a Norton SystemWorks 2006 Recovery Disk boot CD:
\I386\SHELL\GHOST\F:\iso2\I386\SHELL\GHOST\RESTOREGHOST.EXE
Why did you say to rename the file to ghost32.exe? It runs all by itself if you just move it anywhere and double click on RESTOREGHOST.EXE
So the answer is, unfortunately, this program does not list USB Flash drives connected to newer chipsets. It only works if USB Flash drives are connected to older chipsets.
Symantec Ghost 8.2 can image/reimage USB Flash drives whereas version 8.0 cannot. Norton Ghost versions which followed all the way up to the 2011 version of Norton Ghost 15 also could not image USB Flash drives, only hard drives.
Symantec Ghost 8.2 can apparently be found on the boot Recovery Disk CD of versions such as Ghost 10 and System Works 2006.
Try going into the BIOS and enabling USB legacy support, although I'm using an older Asus board I don't believe it has anything to do with the chipset.
It was also my understanding that RestoreGhost.exe can only restore images, not make them.
I have RestoreGhost.exe 8.0 and all the options to create images are "greyed" out.
Dave
Good thing you posted that screenshot because your problem is clear:
Symantec Ghost 8.2 can image/reimage USB Flash drives whereas version 8.0 cannot.
Dave, I guess your version is from Ghost 9 and it is crippled as regards image creation. The version from Ghost 10 does allow image creation. I think it is version 8.2.
It's OK, I don't have any problems at all.
For me, my versions of "RestoreGhost.exe" only restore. I would also be willing to guess thats why they are called "RESTORE"Ghost. As in "They only Restore Ghost images".
There is another one I have seen called something like "OEMRestoreGhost". It's the restore only version that they distribute with system images for recovery disks.
The version of RestoreGhost in my scrrenshot is from Ghost 9 but I recall seeing some posts about people claiming to have the full version that allowed them to do both images and restores. Maybe there was 2 releases of Ghost 9?
The fully working versions are normally called Ghost32.exe.
Dave
I said to rename it because that is what it really is. Right-click the file and look at details... Original filename - Ghost32.exe. I built my computer in 2009 so I don't think my chipset is 'old'. I'm not sure about other versions of RESTOREGHOST.EXE being able to create an image. I think that is actually an error on Symantec's part that you can do that. Some versions of RESTOREGHOST.EXE have the ability to create images disabled.
DaveH wrote:It's OK, I don't have any problems at all.
For me, my versions of "RestoreGhost.exe" only restore. I would also be willing to guess thats why they are called "RESTORE"Ghost. As in "They only Restore Ghost images".
There is another one I have seen called something like "OEMRestoreGhost". It's the restore only version that they distribute with system images for recovery disks.
The version of RestoreGhost in my scrrenshot is from Ghost 9 but I recall seeing some posts about people claiming to have the full version that allowed them to do both images and restores. Maybe there was 2 releases of Ghost 9?
The fully working versions are normally called Ghost32.exe.
Dave
The version of RESTOREGHOST.EXE on the Ghost 10 CD CAN create images. It is actually Ghost32.exe - version 8.2. I think it was put on the disc as a mistake.
Oh, well in that case there is no need to rename anything for functionality, just to make the program name clearer.
I found Symantec Ghost 8.2 inside a Norton SystemWorks 2006 Recovery Disk boot CD:
\I386\SHELL\GHOST\F:\iso2\I386\SHELL\GHOST\RESTOREGHOST.EXE
It creates and restores, look:
I just tested it with USB Legacy Support Enabled and it did not work on my Intell i7 CPU - LGA 1366 Intel X58 chipset where only hard drives show up.
It does work on my older Athlon XP CPU - nForce2 chipset.