Norton Ghost

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I have been handed a totally clean PC and 4 CD-R's with an image of a previous HDD spread across them.

I have installed norton ghost (trial) and the 1st CD contains a file called CDR00001.gho and then an exe file called 'GHOST'.

I put this in the drive and then reboot the computer and the CD starts spinning and then asks for a floppy disk. There is no floppy disk with the images and my mate says one wasn't created.

Disc's 2-4 have CDR00002.gho etc on them but not GHOST.

Could someone give me an idea on how to get this image running?

Thanks.

(The old HDD was destroyed I believe so can't use that)
 
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digitalwolf said:
I have been handed a totally clean PC and 4 CD-R's with an image of a previous HDD spread across them.

I have installed norton ghost (trial) and the 1st CD contains a file called CDR00001.gho and then an exe file called 'GHOST'.

I put this in the drive and then reboot the computer and the CD starts spinning and then asks for a floppy disk. There is no floppy disk with the images and my mate says one wasn't created.

Disc's 2-4 have CDR00002.gho etc on them but not GHOST.

Could someone give me an idea on how to get this image running?

Thanks.

(The old HDD was destroyed I believe so can't use that)
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Also to add when the PC boots, it reads the disk as the CD drive is 1st boot device and says:

Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM
1.44Mb diskette:
Starting DOS

Bad or Missing command interpreter:

A:\
 
I had a similar problem the other week, I used "ultimate boot cd" a free download, booted into freedos which has usb cd support and just ran ghost.exe manually.
 
ok, create a windows 98 boot diskette (www.bootdisk.com) this should hopefully contain mscdex drivers for your cdrom, once it has booted from the floppy insert the first cd and run ghost, the rest of the discs only contain the rest of the spanned image so dont worry about only having one ghost executable as it loads the program into memory and you only have to run it once.
 
At the A:\ prompt type ghost.exe

Once Ghost has loaded choose Local Disk>From image

Browse to the CD, select the first Ghost file and select the HDD as the destination.
 
Thanks for the replies guys.

Thought i'd just clarify that there is nothing in the A drive and I do not have a Norton Boot disk on floppy.

I have no idea why it goes to the A: prompt, just automatically does it.

Thanks.
 
digitalwolf said:
I have no idea why it goes to the A: prompt, just automatically does it.
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The reason it's going to the A: prompt is because the bootable cd is emulating a bootable floppy disk. The A: drive is the CD!

At the A: prompt, can you type 'ghost' (without the quotes) and then press return?
 
Okay something completely different happens now.

I've chucked an old IDE HDD of mine into the computer.

Windows recognised the drive in slave and asked me if I wanted to formatt it. I did and now it's set to master.

I boot the PC up with the first image CD in and it goes past the A: prompt now and to a menu.

The menu asks if I want to :- Carry out a backup
Check up on a backup
Rebuild HDD

I press button 3 for rebuild and it says "press any key to continue", I do that and then the HDD makes a loading noise and then the BIOS beeps continually for 3 seconds and then the CD spins up.

The CD starts to spin, then after a couple of mins stops. I've tried inserting the second CD but it does nothing.

Any idea's guys?

Thanks.
 
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korbk said:
The reason it's going to the A: prompt is because the bootable cd is emulating a bootable floppy disk. The A: drive is the CD!

At the A: prompt, can you type 'ghost' (without the quotes) and then press return?
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With the old drive in it says "bad command or file name" when I try tying ghost @ A: prompt

Still getting black screens with the different HDD in.
 
Okay I have just tried the Win 98 bootdisk and that brings up 'Norton Ghost 2002'.

I go to image and then 'from cd' and then press enter.

It then asks for the Norton Ghost 2002 CD-KEY which can be found on the 'splash screen'.

I don't have one but I do have a copy of Norton Ghost 12.0 which I purchased earlier.

Whats the next plan of attack:p

Thanks ;)
 
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