Dave,

Could you try "Tasks, Advanced Recovery"

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Dave, you should still be able to see them using the Windows Interface.  What Brian was suggesting was that after starting Ghost 10:
Select Recovery
Select Recover My Files
Select File/Open and browse to the location
(You can also do this from same window using Tasks/Advanced Recovery wizard)

Dave, my only guess or suspicion is that is has something to due with the fact that you did a restore.  You didn't mention but was that restore of your entire c: partition?  If so, then the entire Ghost catalog of restore points was restored also, which  was from an earlier time point.  So Ghost wouldn't have knowledge of anything after that time anymore.

At this point if you create another complete Restore Point with Ghost 10 it should be in the catalog.

Also, independent backup images I don't think are in the catalog, only base plus incrmentals.  That's why you can always browse for Ghost 10, Ghost 9, or Ghost 2003 image backups -- in case they came from another source, or even another computer.

Dave, you're not dense.    Ghost sometimes requires intuition.

First I'm glad to hear that Ghost 10 worked for a complete restore for you.  When you restore from an incremental, the restore includes the complete (base) backup and then the changes that are in the incremental.

Also, the catalog is on your c: drive, the backups on your external drive.  After the backup (incremental or full) to your external is completed, the catalog on the c: is updated.  That's my impression.

After you do another backup to your external drive, let us know if/what Ghost shows for your Recovery Points.

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My understanding of base/incrementals is like this:  A base backup is a backup that is complete; it contains a full image of the partition.  Typically the backup image file is about 50% of the actual USED part of the source partition, depending upon compression options.

The reason for creating incrementals is to save space and save backup time.  If you have changed the partition only slightly, then an incremental image backup will only contain the changes since the last full base backup.  The base backup might be (for example) 20GB file, but the incremental only 1GB.

To restore to a specific time, you would have to restore the base first, then apply the incremental change.

Some people do full backups on Sunday, then incremental backups Monday - Saturday. etc

Dave, one good tip I learned from Brian is to check the "verify" option for creating your Ghost image backups.  It only takes a little longer for Ghost to verify the image backup after creating it to external hard drive, but knowing it's integrity is ok is nice.

I used to just ignore verify, but no longer.  Thanks Brian!