Greetings,
  I read the guides and stickes on Ghost 9. What I want to do is make an image file of my C:\ drive which is 16 GB. This way I can always get to this Windows XP PRo SP2 installation if the computer has any problems.
  What I have done thus far:
        1.  I used the Ghost 9 version to make a "backup" of my c:\ drive the files were stripped to 4400 g.B a piece. This way I could put each one on a DvDR.  ( I used "Verify")
        2. The files have a .sv2i file and 4 .v2i files that go 1-4
        3. I tried booting with the ghost 9 cd and had problems which is what brought me here
        4.  I read the Reatogo guide by Brian, I followed the directions and was able to make the iso. The problem with the guide he had is when I double clicked the Ghost 9 autohelp it never asked me for a cdkey.
                     - I believe that this is due to the guide not being made for the new version of ReaToGO
       5. At this point I would like to know what my next step is. My goal is to be able to be able to boot with these Cd's and to have the drive imaged correctly. What do I need to do? Should I burn these images to a DvDR?
     If I am correct I need to burn the CD of the Bart PE folder which is 322MB this will allow me to boot into Ghost, Then I woudl most likely be able to backup that way. I have been trying to figure this out for a long time and would like to fix any tweaks I need to do now rather than later. Any help is appreciated.


Edit:
   It is not creating an image file since it says:
"Error: SetupDecompressOrCopyFIle() "F:\I386\sys\ROBOEX32.DLL" Ti C:\ReaToGo-240\BartRPE\I386\System\32\sys\ROBOEX32.dll" The system can not find the path Specified

SEtup Details

       
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"C:\REATOGO-240\BARTRPE\Programs\Ghost9\UTILITY\RestoreMBR.exe" DecompressOrCopy file "F:\I386\SYS\ROBOEX32.DLL" to "C:\REATOGO-240\BARTRPE\I386\SYSTEM32\SYS\ROBOEX32.DLL" Error: SetupDecompressOrCopyFile() "F:\I386\SYS\ROBOEX32.DLL" to "C:\REATOGO-240\BARTRPE\I386\SYSTEM32\SYS\ROBOEX32.DLL" 3: The system cannot find the path specified. DecompressOrCopy file Getting CD-Rom bootstrap loader File copy done Appending files Processing driver IDs Checking for missing files Builder has stopped because there are 1 build errors ISO image is not created, you must fix the errors! Building done... There where 1 errors and 0 warnings Use the [<<] and [>>] buttons to jump to Error/Warning.

I was able to find the file on a site but was not sure if I Should copy the folder dir to a cd r

Bombadillio,



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3. I tried booting with the ghost 9 cd and had problems which is what brought me here

At what stage did the CD fail?


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F:\I386\sys\ROBOEX32.DLL

That's the wrong path for this file. Strange.

What is your Ghost 9 version? Have you done the Live Update? The Ghost 9 plugin build process handles the versions differently but both should work. I have ver 9.0.2.3981. The original is ver 9.0.0.2583. The latest plugin doesn't ask you to enter a serial number manually. It's extracted by the plugin automatically.

Here are some "compressed" instructions on creating the Reatogo CD. I'd suggest RW CDs at first in case you make mistakes.

You need WinXP SP1 or SP2 installed on your computer and the WinXP SP2 CD. Ghost 9 must be installed.

Put Reatogo-240.exe in the root of a NTFS partition. Double click Reatogo-240.exe. There will be lots of OKs to click.

Ignore Steps 1,3,4,5
Click Step 2 and follow instructions. FIX.

Click Download AutoHelp plugins.  
Get #131 Mass Storage Driver Pack if you have SATA HDs. (I see that you have PATA)
Get #45 Ghost 9. Run autoHelp_dotNet.cmd first, then autoHelp_Ghost9.cmd

Click Start PEBuilder
Tick Burn to CD/DVD
Tick AutoErase RW,  
Tick Eject after burn
Burn using StarBurn
Select your Device
Click Build

I'd start again by redownloading REATOGO-240.exe and the plugins. Do you get the same error on building?

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At what stage did the CD fail?

   Well my cd was all scratched up so I copied the cd with plextor to my hard drive. From there I used nero and made a Boot cd with the cd. I am not sure if I went wrong by making  the option " Boot-cd" But it boots into dos but it wont let me run any program off the Norton cd. As I said before I have 4 files burned onto dvd's 1. is  estee.sv2i
2-4 = C_Drive_s0#.v2i, C_Drive.v2i

My computer is Windows SP2. Ghost 9 is installed and I just followed your advice and Liveupdated it to 3981, (was using 2583)

As to reaTogo-240.exe when it is in the root Dir. It created a Dir @ C:\REATOGO-240 so the files were all placed there.

 I will now re-install it and tell you what happens. AS to the re-install the only plugins I saw I could download were the "Ghost v9.0 plugin is this correct? I just dont watn to do this all wrong again. ( My drives are PATA as you said ;-) )


  As for Step 2 I think this may be the problem since I dont remember performing the create driver section. I thought it was part of the plugins section. Let me re-try this and hopefully this will fix the problem. As for plugins the only one I see is the ghost v9.0 I would need correct

 My goal is to get Norton to boot up and for my drives to be restored in a fast fashion from the cd's. I am storing the images on a backup hard drive to expedite the process but in the case I am on the go and need these disks it will be helpful since I have 3 computers with the same configuration.

What do you think? I have a version of Ghost 2003 which I can get my hands on if I chose but I am a fighter and want to figure out how to use this v9 since I have spent so much time already on it.


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          Should I still go ahead and do:
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For Source:   choose your CD drive or if you don't have a WinXP CD, the folder which contains the i386 folder Leave Output as BartPE Put a tick in Create ISO image Don’t tick Burn to CD as it produces an error later (on my computer. It may work on yours). Click Build It takes a few minutes depending on the speed of your computer.

I saw what you wrote but just want to make sure taht you dont want me to make my source " Win Xp SP2 CD. I think you want me to so figured I would check again. Thx a mil!

Also as I was running the setup it said 1 file was not found but did not address what file it was when I ran

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autoHelp_Ghost9.cmd

Then it says after installation "2. Ram Drive MUST be FIXED and Min 32mb. AutoRamResizer enabled wil not work. If required - Config. My Defaults- (Main Panel) to correct your ramdrv settings.



*** After testing it at making an ISO I got the same error as before, thus it did not make an ISO image since the build stopped due to the 1 error***

 What I did, I setup as source = F:\ ( Win XP SP2 CD)
CUstom = Blank
OUTPUT = C:\ReaToGO-240\BARTPE
Media Output: C:\REATOGO-240\reatogoBuilder.iso

 This way I would be able to see where it went wrong. There is no such file as ROBOEX32.DLL on the windows cd. I do have this file though downloaded. Is there a way I can get this to work just off my hard drive? This is very frustrating

Bombadillio wrote on Feb 18^th, 2007 at 5:04pm:

Well my cd was all scratched up so I copied the cd with plextor to my hard drive. From there I used nero and made a Boot cd with the cd. I am not sure if I went wrong by making  the option " Boot-cd" But it boots into dos but it wont let me run any program off the Norton cd.

I don't think you can copy the CD that way and have it boot properly. In Nero I'd choose "CD Copy". But for the present forget the scratches and try to boot the original CD.


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Should I still go ahead and do

Ignore my old instructions and use those from my post above. You only need one plugin. #45 Ghost 9.


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Ram Drive MUST be FIXED and Min 32mb

I recall it gives you a choice. I chose 64 MB. Don't worry about "AutoRamResizer enabled" as you don't have it.


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my source " Win Xp SP2 CD.

Yes.

edit fix, original cd wont boot ... :-(

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There is no such file as ROBOEX32.DLL

It should be in C:\Windows\System32

The plugin should find it. It was in a different folder in your pre update Ghost. The update moves it.

Brian wrote on Feb 18^th, 2007 at 5:40pm:

It should be in C:\Windows\System32 The plugin should find it. It was in a different folder in your pre update Ghost. The update moves it.

On the last build it says cant find it on F:\ ( my win XP SP2 cd)

When I do a search I cant find this file in C:\windows\system32

maybe I can modify the Ghost9.inf to direct to c:\desktop\roboex32.dll

If I can figure the command since it has it as SYS\roboex32.dll=2  in the [SourceDisksFIles] of the inf it would solve the problem?

Sounds like there is an error in your plugin. It's looking in the wrong place for the file. I suggest posting in this thread and Siegfried will answer.

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?s=65f399e1c3776ce7bd44827449369aae&showtopic=18742&st=0

As you will see, I've been there too.

I'll download the current plugin and see if I get the error.

Brian wrote on Feb 18^th, 2007 at 5:46pm:

Sounds like there is an error in your plugin. It's looking in the wrong place for the file. I suggest posting in this thread and Siegfried will answer. http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?s=65f399e1c3776ce7bd44827449369aae&showtopic=18742&st=0 As you will see, I've been there too. I'll download the current plugin and see if I get the error.

I registered to the site but it will not allow me to post yet, is ther ea way you could post on my behalf?


I am going try this:
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Brian, my vers. is 9.0.0.2583 So, at least we did get the facts together and were able to pin it down to something reproducable. Now we´ll have to see what Frodo thinks about the matter and how the plugin can be made to accomodate both versions. If you want you could try this: Just manually put "roboex32.dll" into the folder "Ghost9_autoHelp\system32" of the configured plugin and see if that already makes it work on CD. This existing entry in Ghost9.inf will copy it correctly: [SourceDisksFiles] system32\*.*=2,,1 My best regards, Siegfried

RUnning this now and it seems to be working when I make these corrections. I had to place the file in that folder as mentioned

I just realized that Ghost 9 isn't installed on my computer at present. I'm testing something else so I can't run the plugin.

I am going to reboot and see what happens

So I booted from the cd and everything seemed to go fine AT FIRST:


1. Looked like how windows XP usually looks like as its reviewing your configuration

2. Screen blanked out and came back on and showed WIN XP LOGO

3. Screen blanked out again and came back on  with windows XP Bars and sayd the PE Builder stuff

4. USB Keyboard and mouse lights blinked on and off
     Screen went black. Had to push the reset button.

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I do not know why my screen went black. What should I do next? It seemed to take a long time to get to that point

  After a few more tries I found out that it is blanking out when it starts PNP APPLICATIONS

Ne1 have any ideas


I tried booting with my Ghost 2003 cd but it will not read DVDR's nor will it read the images made with Ghost v9.0

Have you tried booting from the scratched Ghost 9 CD?

Can you do a search of your C: drive for roboex32.dll? It's added when you install Ghost 9.

Brian wrote on Feb 18^th, 2007 at 9:21pm:

Have you tried booting from the scratched Ghost 9 CD? Can you do a search of your C: drive for roboex32.dll? It's added when you install Ghost 9.

I can boot from the scratched ghost 9 cd but it is only giving me three options ( not exact wordig )
1. No config
2. Cd drivers
3. USB
4. Firewall

This does not seem right. I checked the cd and it seems to have ghost 8.2 on it from windows. However this does not solve the problem

the NeoBoot cd was able to made into an iso when I changed the files up above. However, the system hangs at PNP initialization now...

Bombadillio wrote on Feb 19^th, 2007 at 1:24am:

I can boot from the scratched ghost 9 cd but it is only giving me three options ( not exact wordig ) 1. No config 2. Cd drivers 3. USB 4. Firewall

My Ghost 9 CD doesn't have those choices.

Brian wrote on Feb 19^th, 2007 at 2:55am:

My Ghost 9 CD doesn't have those choices.

LoL I put in the wrong cd hahahaaha I put in the Nero Neotogo Boot cd no wonder.
 
 Tried again the ghost 9 boot cd still wont work.

Bombadillio,

Where in the boot sequence does the Ghost 9 CD fail?

Could you try the Ghost 9 and Reatogo CDs in other computers to see if they boot. Sometimes it's a hardware problem.

The ghost 9 cd does not boot at all. I tried it in my friends computer and nothing happened. I tried the ReaTogo cd and it just gave me a black screen when it reached PNP initialization.

Maybe I should just install Norton Ghost 2003. I have the cd for it. Since my goal is just to backup this drive. The thing that sux now though is that I have the backup image of the drive in that crazy svi files. But it wont read with earlier nortons. This is very disturbing since I tried for 6 hrs yesterday to get this to work. Is there somethign I am doing wrong with ReaToGo?

Bombadillio,

It's my understanding that you can use Ghost 2003 from the CD and it doesn't really need to be installed. So you can image and restore now from that CD while you continue trying to get the Reatogo CD working.

Could you try making a Reatogo CD without the Ghost plugin? See if it boots as part of the trouble shooting. I don't know when you will be able to post to the CD forum. I tried registering for a new account and haven't received an email either.

Brian wrote on Feb 19^th, 2007 at 3:05pm:

Bombadillio, It's my understanding that you can use Ghost 2003 from the CD and it doesn't really need to be installed. So you can image and restore now from that CD while you continue trying to get the Reatogo CD working. Could you try making a Reatogo CD without the Ghost plugin? See if it boots as part of the trouble shooting. I don't know when you will be able to post to the CD forum. I tried registering for a new account and haven't received an email either.

I tried the Ghost 2003 cd it wont let me access DVDR media since I would want to burn the images to DVD'S any ideas?

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=1171834979

NightOwl says "yes".

Brian wrote on Feb 19^th, 2007 at 3:22pm:

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=1171834979 NightOwl says "yes".

When I used the Ghost 2003 it seemed to not read my DVD drive. But that post says Backup to hard drive and then burn dvd's

The problem at this point hte image file backup I made was a day and half ago and I have done a lot of stuff to this computer since then. What would be really helpful is if there were some DOS Based program I could get to that be able to read these new Ghost V9 Dvd's I burned. I guess the only other thing is to possibly get an external Hard drive and use that as a backupdrive.

Bombadillio wrote on Feb 19^th, 2007 at 3:37pm:

"... I guess the only other thing is to possibly get an external Hard drive and use that as a backupdrive..."

I am a long-time advocate of placing internal HDDs - whether IDE or SATA - in external enclosure kits.  If you have an organic SATA port free, you can readily mount an internal SATA HDD in a SATA enclosure with the delightful aspect of having your system regard it as an internal HDD despite its location and its independent power supply.

EP :'(

El_Pescador wrote on Feb 19^th, 2007 at 5:45pm:

I am a long-time advocate of placing internal HDDs - whether IDE or SATA - in external enclosure kits.  If you have an organic SATA port free, you can readily mount an internal SATA HDD in a SATA enclosure with the delightful aspect of having your system regard it as an internal HDD despite its location and its independent power supply. EP :'(

First,
 I want to say thank you very much for everyons help
Second,
  It is unfortunate that I could not get Ghost V9.0 To work even with Reatogo. At this point after spending so much time and over 10 cdr's on the right software I am not sure what went wrong. I hate to admit defeat but at this point I feel that I should look at another solution.

Third = Solution

So I went to staples and purchased:
Western Digital Essential 250GB
WD 250G EXRERNAL 119.98
110% Price Guarantee $89.98 -32.99
SUBTOTAL 86.99
Staples Coupon -15.00

TOTAL $71.99
And $40 Rebate
Final total $31.06

Solution Continued
    Now this is what I plan, booting with the Ghost Cd, Getting it to support this USB 2.0 Hard drive and backing up this windows setup. The pitfall is that my old Ghost V9.0 had the version of windows that was untouched by anything. So my options on this are as follows

  A.      Actually restore that image onto this backup drive.
  B.      Make a new backup with my current settings on the backup drive with Ghost v2003.

So what do you think?

Is it worth asking Symantec for a replacement Ghost 9 CD? A working CD would solve your dilemma.