Comments on: Ghost and Windows Vista

By: Zashkaser

Zashkaser — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:25:45 +0000

You know, I didn’t even see Casper’s comment when I made mine (how could I miss that?). Sorry Casper, you had it first!

By: Powerthink

Powerthink — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:34:56 +0000

What is Stiffy then?

By: First Wave

First Wave — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:59:16 +0000

Use Ghost 2003. Boot from Stiffy, make sure Image All is selected, and it works a charm, any version of Vista.

By: Di

Di — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:10:11 +0000

I tried to make a image back-up of my pc with window vista, using the Ghost 2003 with previous mentioned command line switch -fpsd, then my pc hang at PC DOS 7.1 Setup Menu. Either the choice of 1. Run Norton Ghost Dos Operation or 2. Return to Windows without running NOrton Ghost works. It does nothing with choice 1 and it says Return to windows… with choice 2, But nothing happens.
Is there a way to return to Windows Vista?
Thanks!

By: Al Kalian

Al Kalian — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:48:14 +0000

As a follow up to the post on 12/13 regarding Ghost 2003 and Vista. As I mentioned I cloned a 500gb–>750gb disk with no problems using the “-id” switch. However trying to clone the 750–>500 I got an error message that the destination drive was too small. I couldn’t find a work around for this. So if you want to use this method you will have to get two drive that are identical. I’d bet they have to be exact duplicates, because if one is 1k difference, you will probably have problems going back and forth.

By: Al Kalian

Al Kalian — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:56:29 +0000

I have been running Ghost 2003 since, well, 2003 with no problems. I got a new computer and it came with Vista, and Ghost 2003 didn’t work. I got a copy of the latest and greatest, Version 14, and it worked, kinda. Rather than have a duplicate image I only had one partition. A call to symantec confirmed that V14 wouldn’t do what 2003 would do. I would have to copy the partitions one at a time. Of course they don’t support 2003 now.

After doing some digging I came up with these documents on Symantec’s web site. This is the Reference Guide: ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/ghost/manuals/symghost_8/Ghost_ref_guide.pdf
This is the Users Manual: ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/ghost/manuals/ghost2003_guide.pdf. Starting on page 154 of the Users Guide are the switches that can be used with Ghost.

I used the -id (image disk) switch and it worked like a charm. Just like it always did. I just edited the Autoexec.bat file to read “ghost -id” (without the quotes) and Vista started up without a hitch. Just make the clone drive the SATA0 drive, and Vista starts right up.

The new computer came with SATA drives and contrary to other comments I am using Ghost v789 and didn’t have to do any upgrading.

A curiosity that stands out right away is that I thought I had 4 partitions on the hard disk. Using the -id switch, Ghost showed 9 partitions! Lot’s of hidden stuff in Vista, I guess. One word of caution, and it is spelled out in the Users Guide. The destination drive must be the same size or larger (I went 500gb-750gb) and it copies *everything* from the first drive, all sectors, and it cannot re-size the partitions. It took almost 2 hours to clone the 500gb drive at 4gb/min transfer rate, but having a no hassle exact copy is worth it. Hope this helps somebody else.

By: Sergio

Sergio — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:47:12 +0000

i forgot to mention… Run sysprep from an administrator command prompt, but you probably already know that

By: Sergio

Sergio — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:45:41 +0000

This is what worked for me, we use Ghost 8.3.

Setup the image,
then run command prompt with admin rights and type
BCDEDIT /set {bootmgr} device boot partition=c:
BCDEDIT /set {default} device boot partition=c:
BCDEDIT /set {default} osdevice boot partition=c

Notice the last part “partition=c:”, it wasn’t working for me without that part.
Once that’s done you can run sysprep

c:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:scriptfile

Hope this helps!

By: Darrell

Darrell — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:46:43 +0000

I have wrestled with trying to Ghost Vista for a year now with no luck, but
ghost -fdsp -clone,mode=COPY,src=1,dst=2
worked GREAT!

Thanks!!!
Darrell

By: mark

mark — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:03:32 +0000

Seb:

Care to share an ISO of the netbootdisk? Just tell me where to drop my ghost.exe. I can’t seem to create an CD version of it with ghost on it.

Thanx

By: Seb

Seb — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:14:15 +0000

Or you can use this : http://www.netbootdisk.com
You can make Floppy, CD and USB versions (I use them all) and put ghost on it. It will automatically detect 100′s of nics and works like a charm.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:22:54 +0000

I have always used the Enterprise versions so I am not entirely sure on if that version contains that functionality. You may need to consider just purchasing a new version (not necessarily upgrading, but just buying new). I know starting with GSS 1.0 they will create boot CD’s and with 1.1 it will create bootable USB drives.

By: Alex Ayala

Alex Ayala — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:07:39 +0000

Thanks Chris

I need to make bootable CD’s using Ghost 2003 with USB and CDDVD support only. I don’t use A: or B: they are worthless. What can I do? I have an external disk to keep backup’s but I have to be in XP to start Ghost and restore.

Thanks for your help

Alex

By: chris

chris — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:45:39 +0000

Hey Alex,

I am almost completely 100% sure that you can not upgrade Ghost 2003 to the solution suite. The solution suite is the enterprise version of the software and the Ghost 200X version is the home/small business version.

By: Alex Ayala

Alex Ayala — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:50:28 +0000

I have been using Ghost 2003 since it came. My question is: Can I upgrade Ghost 2003 with V 1.2 Ghost Solution Suite?
Where to buy it?

Thank you