hey guys, ibeen looking for someone to help me with ghost for quite some time now...the problem i'm having maybe very simple but it's crazy for me

i have win xp, and itwont start, i remember my friend putting ghost and he did recover the image for me last time my computer went down, and now i can't remember exactly what he did, i have the boot disk and when i put it, it takes to ms dos and put A:/ and that's about it, this is where im stuck, i remember him putting a D drive and i was putting all my important infos on that drive, just in case i need to restore the image, but i dont know the process AT ALL, i put ghost.exe, nothing happens, can anyone tell me exactly the process on restoring my comp the way it was few months ago when i took the last image. im stuck with my old computer and trust me it takes me ages to get to this page, thanx

win xp starts but it freezes, i had it for a while now, and i have ghost but honestly, i do not know which one it is though, my win xp, but i don't even know how to start ghost, i know i have it and also the boot disk
when i put the boot disk, it goes to ms dos and this is what it says
A:/ and ask me to put something
i know my friend put something like ghost exe or something but i know how to start to recover the image i took few months ago

Do you want to create or restore an image?

Does this help http://ghost.radified.com/norton_ghost_3.htm

the link you gave me says

After booting to DOS with the boot floppy, execute ghost.exe from either the floppy or the location on your hard disk

how do i excute ghost.exe from the floppy disk, i know my friend did it that way because i saw him typing it, i can't believe i didnt write all that stuff down

should i just type ghost.exe ,when it says A:/ or should i type dir ghost.exe, or run ghost.exe, what is the command????

hey NightOwl

i did what you said and this is what i found
when i did the dir on the floppy disk, there wasn't any file ghost or ghost.exe
but i typed  d: and i put dir, there was 2 files
one was GHOST and the other was my docu~, (i believe its my documents), and i remember putting all my important things on my documents on the D drive, now exactly what should i do to run the ghost.exe file, thanx for the reply, i feel like im close on getthing this done...

topnotch

Okay!--I said finding *ghost.exe* was the first step--you have learned and used some bacic DOS commands--good work!

Now--you can do real and permanent damage if you go and restore an image to the *wrong* place--so the questions are--

1.  do you understand how to use Ghost--if *no*, read throught Rad's guide to using Ghost--it takes a while, but read it carefully and understand what it says, and why!

2.  how is your system set up?  

You have already stated that your *Documents* are stored on the D:\ partition--but, are you going to loose anything you will regret if you restore an image that you said was 6 months (?) old--because, if your OS is on C:\, and you restore the *image* of C:\ that is from 6 months ago, then everything you may have added to C:\ in the last 6 months will be gone--permanently, until you add it back again--if you can!

So, you need to know for sure that this is what you want to do.

3.  So, once you open Ghost, you will need to find the image file--any idea what the name is?

You click on *Local > Partition > from Image*, and this brings up the *select the source image file* routine.  If you have more than one drive, you first select the drive, then the partition (drive letter), and then the directory where the image is saved.

Once you find the ghost image file (it should be like this--imagefilename.gho), you select it as the source by highliteing it, and then click *open*.

Let's stop there--report your progress--and have you considered what is said above--are you prepared to procede?!

topnotch

You said there were *two* files--but I didn't follow the names you reported in the last post--could you report the exact names?

Have you created only the one Ghost backup that you know of?  If *yes* then these two files are probably a spanned image file set--the first should be *xxxxx.gho* and the second should be *xxxxx001.ghs*--the *s* is for *spanned* file.

Before you restore, it would be good to test the *integrity* of the image--start Ghost, select *Local > Check > Image File*, navigate to the image file and select it, then select to proceed with image integrity check.

The results?