Re: Symantec Ghost 10.0 on XP SP2 w/WinDbg

I use BootItNG to image my test systems. If you just want to be able to
restore a partition it will most likely work for you as well.
You do not even need to install the software, just boot the floppy and hit
cancel when asked to install. This will allow you to perform the required
partition work.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/


....Chris

<cdr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In the past I've used DriveImage and later Symantec Ghost to image
> disks on machines used for debugging particularly invasive, or
> particularly unstable driver projects.
>
> Setting up a new Dell PowerEdge 1800 dual Xeon box, I installed XP SP2
> and connected it via a serial cable to another box running Windows
> Server 2003 (which I don't think is relevant but I've been wrong
> before). The basic setup worked as expected. However, attempting to use
> the latest Ghost 10.0 from Symantec was no picnic and I'm wondering if
> anyone here can explain the problems that I'm seeing.
>
> Install attempt #1: As a matter of course, I typically always boot the
> target box with all debugging options enabled in the boot.ini file and
> connect to it with WinDbg regardless of if I'm debugging a driver
> project or not. So I thought nothing of running the Ghost 10.0
> installer on this setup. However, this generated first-chance
> exceptions that halted execution landing me at the WinDbg command
> prompt. Although somewhat atypical for production code, I thought
> nothing of it and figured that the exception would be handled. Possibly
> it was. But the Ghost installer reported "setup was interrupted - no
> files or settings have been modified". Well that's not true at all but
> it's off topic.
>
> Install attempt #2: Rebooted without the debugger, installed Ghost w/o
> obvious error and performed an initial backup of the test target's
> single SATA drive.
>
> Maybe this was just some installation problem? I tried rebooting back
> into the debugger with Ghost installed only to be hammered with
> exceptions in WinDbg.
>
> According to the Symantec support pages Symantec products aren't
> compatible with kernel-mode debuggers. The following two articles on
> the Symantec website provide an insufficient amount of detail to be of
> any use whatsoever.
>
> Kernel debuggers and debug output viewers are incompatible with
> Symantec programs
> http://tinyurl.com/ddoor
>
> Compatibility with kernel debugger programs
> http://tinyurl.com/dlyfj
>
> What's the conventional wisdom these days for imaging disks on hosts
> that (a) must be run routinely under WinDbg (b) are likely to suffer
> such abuse that they become unbootable and require restore from backup
> image in order to efficiently re-esablish the controls required for
> valid testing of kernel drivers? sysresccd.org sure looks nice but it
> doesn't seem to support SATA drives yet. Anyone have a suggestion for
> getting Ghost working, a way to use sysresccd on a SATA drive, or
> suggestion for another utility?
>
> - Thanks in advance and regards
> Chris
>


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