Re: How to remove a half installation

I tried to boot from the Ghost CD and it didn´t work. However, that might
not be so significant because I can't boot from the W2K installation CD
either. What happens is that something called Caldera DR-DOS gets loaded.
Then, if I try to run the CD, I get the message that this programme cannot
run under Dos.

If I go into the I386 subdir and run WINNT.EXE I get the message:

An internal Setup error has occurred.
Could not find a place for a swap file.
Setup cannot continue. Pess ENTER to exit.

I have tried to get out from Dos using the command "exit", but it seems to
have no effect.

Any ideas?


"Sid Elbow" <here@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:00217aef$0$11347$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Or perhaps I misunderstood you: it seemed to me you were saying that, in order to restore a backup of the Windows image on c: you:

a) did a second windows installation on D:
b) booted to the second windows installation on D; and installed Ghost to windows.
c) used that installation of Ghost to restore the backup of the C-drive

If that was what you meant (and I apologise if it isn't) then it's certainly not the way Symantec intends it to be done. If you lose you main operating system installation there has to be a way of restoring a backup from scratch.

Certainly, up to Ghost-8 you could make a DOS boot floppy (or make a boot-cd from those if you wished) which would allow you to both backup and restore without booting into windows. That option (making a boot floppy) was removed at some point (with Ghost-9 I think) but there had to be an equivalent replacement. Most logically by booting directly to the Ghost install CD which would then give you restore options.




Tim Walters wrote:
I'm not sure I understand you (or that I expressed myself properly). I think Ghost 9 needs a different CD programme to restore a mirror image from bootup. I don't have it. What I can do is install Ghost on D to restore C, and vice versa.

Tim


"Sid Elbow" <here@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:002102ab$0$6365$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Does Ghost 9 not give you the option of making DOS boot discs for restoring (and creating actually) backup images? I know Ghost 8 does but I think they dropped it somewhere along the line. It's by far the simplest way to restore an image if you can't boot into the main OS.

In any event, they must have provided some way of restoring the image if the existing OS is corrupt. Without having to do a temporary OS install in order to access the Windows version of Ghost I mean - that doesn't make sense.

Did you try simply booting from your Ghost 9 installation CD to see if you can access restore from there?



Hm. Actually, no. I never tried to do that. You might be right.




Tim Walters wrote:
I had to restore a mirror image of Drive C. I did this by installing a new version of W2K on Drive D, then installing Norton Ghost 9, then restoring C from an external HD.






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