Ghost 2003 problem

[kktk]

I have a SATA drive on my machine with XP installed.
I have used this feature before many times.

However, this time, ghost rebooted the system as it always does to create an image file for the C partition.---but its hung. After rebooting again, it brings be into a DOS window(loading its PC-DOS) and I am given the choice of exiting to DOS or rebooting into windows.

Rebooting does not work......so basically I am stuck in this loop where it wont let me get back into windows NOR will it finish(or start) the imaging process.

So how do I get back into Windows? Use some command line switches? Modify some files so that Ghost doesnt think it needs to start?

Thanks
K

 

[djnes]

This is why Ghost, or any other imaging program should never be installed...simply because it doesn't need to be. I would try getting into safemode, and then removing Ghost. Save the ghost.exe file.

Once the machine is booting, run Ghost the way it's supposed to be done. Make a bootable USB Thumb drive, or use something like BartPE to run ghost from. Then you can make your image file without anything screwing up your windows install.

 

[nessus]

Make a bootable USB Thumb drive, or use something like BartPE to run ghost from.

Best advice ever. I actually tried to get theough the pain of creating a real WinPE CD to do this. Got it working, but it was 7 hours of my life I ever wasted to get it to load all the drivers I needed for one desktop model.

It was way too easy to get the same thing to work with BartPE. Forty-five minutes and it worked with every server driver, desktop driver, and laptop driver in use at a 3,500 workstation corporation. (Including our external 1.6 terabyte 15 drive array units on our mid range servers)

Haven't tried it with a HBA connected SAN, yet.