Category: Geeks r Us
Hi, I'm on linux for the moment because of a problem involving Norton Ghost 2003. I told it to put the image on my external hard drive, then it said that it was going to restart the computer, it restarted, and I assume it created the image, but then it just sat there. I restarted it again, and now its going to the same screen, and not booting into windows xp. I have win xp sp2 by the way. Any suggestions as to how I can get windows booting? Thanks.
I've actually heard this happening on some machines, the only way I've heard to solve it is to repair Windows XP.
I've got Ghost 2003 on this laptop, I can create the image, Windows does restart.
Just curious, how long did it take to do the initial image?
On my laptop it takes between 7-10 minutes to do the image, and between 15-20 to restore.
laptop specs:
2.00 ghz mobile processer
2 gb ram
80 gb hd
Realtek RTL8139 Gigabit Fast Ethernet Adapter
intel wireless card
Intel Video
What're your machine specs, and it doesn't give you an error in the log, if you're able to start Windows?
If you do a search on the net, many people have reported that norton creates corrupted image files. Something in the ballpark of 40% of the time, the images are useless.
Acronis has yet to make a corrupted image for me, but my problem lies in acronis simply not working on my dell system. It only works on comps that I build.
I'm using a 3.00 ghz dual core machine made by hp. its got a 320 gb hard drive in it, which was not what it originally had. It has windows xp sp2 on it, with 512 mb of ram, and I'm not sure what the video card is. Its got a realtech eithernet and sound card. It also has a cd burner, and another drive that only can use cd roms.
You might be able to do that, but I'm not sure. And why would a drive image cause a system to be unbootable?
if I knew, would this post have appeared here? The simple answer is that I do not know, but I should know by now not to use anything that says Norton on it, because Norton people use their windows computers as a dryer, use their microwave as a keyboard, and do not care to use anything else out of a sense of righteousness, and outright hostility towards other programs from other companies. lol! No, I did not mean to bash Norton users, but whenever I've heard the name Norton, its always ment trouble for me. lol. Sorry if I afended anyone.
No offense taken, you aren't the only person who's had that particular issue.
I've had a friend tell me he had had the same thing happen to him, he had to repair install, which you do need sighted assistance for, in order to fix it.
Norton Gost just doesn't like certain machines, and yours seems to be one of them, Shaun, sorry to say.
A repair is just reinstalling Windows, not reformatting the whole hard drive.
Sorry if this don't help out much.
the crashing machine, there's a thread, think its the networking one, originally written by rat.
I'd had suggested to him to buy a NAS.
I'm also suggesting that to you, that way you can have a drive mapped to your system.
You'll be backing up over the network, so it might be a little slower than doing it over USB.
If you try that option out, can you let me know if it does work?
If it does, than that's the only solution that I can find that should work, should being the operative word.
It should work since you're relying on your network connection, not your usb cable.
Since that in your case, went to hell.
Sean, I had the same issue I might have told you however I tried making a bootable dvd of my image instead of throughing it on an external drive, however when I rebooted it started making the image I guess but it totally destroyed my laptop and had to format. I have yet to try making a ghost image on my external drive but I am afraid to, since I just formatted. It might be some hardware configuration that is screwed is the only thing I can think of, spike seems to have no issues.