Help please with Ghost 2003

[Aspire]

Hi all - I hope someone can help.

I sent off my system to a computer guru for setup of some complex specialised programs and he gave me a .gho image saved on the hard drive so that if I needed I can restore the computer without having to send it back to him.

I now have to restore and have been going through Ghost 2003 and I am finding it difficult to use the stored .gho file. The computer guru seems to have fallen off the face of the earth and is nowhere to be found.

Reading through the instructions is confusing - If I have the .gho file on an external USB drive can I use this with 2003 to completely restore my computer windowsXP and all? The Ghost instructions tell me to make a boot floppy and I do not have one in the system.

Any help please - This is starting to frustrate me.

[YeOldeStonecat]

Ghost 2003...wow.....that's an old version. You'll probably have to change your USB controllers to legacy mode, as the old 2003 version may not know how to work with onboard hardware of todays computers.

Do you have a bootable CD of Ghost?
If so, if you boot from it will it recognize your external USB drive? If so, does it even see the backup file?

[TonyT]

To restore an image file (GHO) located on a USB drive you will need a custumized bootable Ghost CD or Floppy with the USB drivers for the external USB drive.

It would be easier to put the GHO image on a slave hard drive and use a Ghost CD or Floppy to boot and load Ghost.

I have a bootable Ghost 2003 CD I made. It boots Win98 and Ghost is loaded into RAM. But it only has USB mouse drivers, no other USB drivers.

[Aspire]

[quote="YeOldeStonecat"]
Do you have a bootable CD of Ghost?
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I have the original Ghost CD - When running the program it tries to make a Boot Disk on a 1.4 floppy. I haven't seen a FD in years.

If I put the file on a second hard drive (IDE for ease) and use the Ghost Program to do the rest in windows will that work?

[YeOldeStonecat]

Granted it was a long time ago, but I recall being able to boot from the Ghost 2003 CD.

It was limited in success with which external USB drives it would work with, and the specific USB controller.
Their own knowledge base..
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/on ... 1617144125

I haven't used ghost in many years, I became more fond of Acronis True Image, and then Paragon Software, and now..there are so many good free cloning utilities like Euseus and P.I.N.G. I don't use the pay for ones anymore...except on servers.
See my list on page 3 of the "Must Have" software list stickied atop this forum.

Copying the GHO file to a second hard drive would be an option.

[TonyT]

If I put the file on a second hard drive (IDE for ease) and use the Ghost Program to do the rest in windows will that work?

Yes. Run Ghost from Windows and it will restart the comp and autorun Ghost from a virtual partition.