Help! I'm being haunted by Ghost.

[TimPoet]

Okay, I Ghosted my partitions to disks (CD-R's). I reformatted my HD. I partitioned it into 4 sections.
I cloned my C drive to the first partition.
This is where it went wrong. When I went to clone to the second partition, I find that I can't. I Fdisk it and find that Ghost made them all into one partition.
I did that twice before I discovered that Ghost was doing that.
What's actually happening is that the program isn't let me do what the manual says it should. The manual says (right after it tells me to specify the drive or device and select the full path name) that there should be a Source Partition dialog box. Well, there ain't!
Instead, it goes right to the Destination Drive dialog.... Then on to the Destination Partition dialog box where it is supposed to give me the option to create a new partition, which it don't.
So, I can't choose which partition from my images to clone and I can't create or even see the partitions on my HD aside from the original C drive.
That works, so I didn't have to reinstall Windows to get online right now.
Please advise me how to get Ghost to see the destination drives so I can get my other cloned files on the HD.
Thanks In Advance!

[casey]

TimPoet,
Are you sure that you chose "Partition from Image" when you cloned it back.
Must work, I do it every day.

[TimPoet]

Originally posted by casey TimPoet, Are you sure that you chose "Partition from Image" when you cloned it back. Must work, I do it every day.

Yeah, at that particular point it gives me 3 choices, To Partition, To Image, From Image- and I chose From Image.
Do you have your images saved to CD-R's? And why would you clone from a CD-R to your HD everyday? Thought it would be the other way around to do daily b/u's.

[casey]

I make Images for every PC that I build. Images for every PC in our organization and I do a lot of testing (software & games)
For my company PC's some which has a lot of software on it (40 programs) when I install software I make an Image after the driver installation & Windows Update, then I would load Office, Lotus, Accpac, PC Anywhere, Seagate Crystal and make another image. Then after installing all my CD Writer software (5 Progs. I make another image. This way I can go back and remove software "cleanly" rather than "Add Remove" which most of the time leaves registry entries and files/folders behind.
My own PC is a dual boot system ME & XP which took me 17 hours to load all the software, my 30 gig IBM crashed and I got everything going within an hour. Also storing the images on CD saves a lot of hard drive space.

[casey]

Timpoet,
Which version of Ghost do you have ? Only ver 7 can do NTFS if I’m correct.
I just did an Image restore and it went like this:
1. Enter on welcome screen
2. Local > Partition > from image
3. Choose image
4. Enter licence number (only Ghost 7)
5. Select source partition from image file
6. Select local destination drive (this menu shows all the partitions on your hard Drive.
7. Choose a partition.
8. Go
(Have you got a full version of ghost.? It’s not a feature limited version ?

[TimPoet]

Originally posted by casey Timpoet, Which version of Ghost do you have ? Only ver 7 can do NTFS if I’m correct.

Got Version from Norton Systemworks 2001 Pro edition. See OS below, no NTFS.

I just did an Image restore and it went like this: 1. Enter on welcome screen 2. Local > Partition > from image 3. Choose image 4. Enter licence number (only Ghost 7) 5. Select source partition from image file 6. Select local destination drive (this menu shows all the partitions on your hard Drive. 7. Choose a partition. 8. Go (Have you got a full version of ghost.? It’s not a feature limited version ?

That's my problem- #5 is not an option for me (are you getting your image from a CD-R? I see in #2 that you chose >Partition whereas I chose Disk, that's what the !#@$! picture looked like in the manual, hmm [I'm referring to the pop-up box titled "Action" written sideways after you choose disk]).
Like I said in post above it's just not there.
Maybe I'll *sigh* FDISK, reformat and try that. What do you think?

EDIT: Until I get this straightened out, can I take the individual clones that I made up of 3 partitions and put all 3 on one partitions now? I don't think so, cuz once I define the C drive and clone to it, it's sealed up, ain't it?

[casey]

Your problem is with 2. You must choose PARTITION. this basically means build or restore a partition from an image. If you choose DISK IT WILL OVERWRITE ALL YOUR PARTITIONS and you will end up with one big C drive.

[casey]

Just FDISK and create 4 partitions. You don't have to format them. You cannot put three clones on one partition, all that you will have is the last clone on that partition. (the last one will overwrite the first 2)

[casey]

If you don't choose PARTITION in 2 the option in 5 is not available.

[TimPoet]

Originally posted by casey Your problem is with 2. You must choose PARTITION. this basically means build or restore a partition from an image. If you choose DISK IT WILL OVERWRITE ALL YOUR PARTITIONS and you will end up with one big C drive.

AHA!! I'll be back and post the results. Thanks!

[TimPoet]

Allllllllllllllllrighty- then!!
Success!
Thanks, Casey, you da man!

[casey]

My Pleasure, it's great to help someone, as I have learned so much from this site.