well, seeing that it can save a week's-work worth of headaches, re-installing everything, i'd say it's worth it.

Tommytiko wrote on Jan 14^th, 2007 at 4:11pm:

The answer is twofold when taking either the BartPE or Reatogo-X-PE route: (1) both and can readily be incorporated in a practical fashion into either CD; but (2) regrettably, I was never able to realize a manner in which to legitimately obtain and through Symantec channels.

Thanks for the replies.

Does anybody have a manual for ghost 8.2?  For example, what is the significance of the choice between .gho files and raw and image files when making a backup from dos?  And what are the segments in spanned images and how can their size be controlled?

Hello,

I had just read this thread last week and quickly ordered a copy of Norton Ghost 10.0. It arrived today, but it seems to be different from that discussed here; i.e. no "Ghost 8.2".

I live in Germany and the boxed copy that I received is the German version.

My question is two-fold:

1) Is there a functionality difference between 8.0 and 8.2?
2) Is the Germany version of Ghost 10 somehow crippled in comparison to the American version (which is the version I assume many of you are using)?

On the recovery CD under [drive letter]:\I386\SHELL\GHOST there is a file "RESTOREGHOST.EXE", which, when executed, indicates that it is version 8.0 of ghost32.exe (under Windows, if one looks at the file properties, the version is shown as 8.0.0.984). It's the name that concerns me, since it matches what others here have said is the name of the 32-bit version that ships with Ghost 9...

However, It did allow me to create an image using the Recovery disk. So maybe all is well and my question is academic. I haven't yet tried to restore the image, which I'll do shortly.

Thanks for the discussion! Having a 32-bit Ghost which will run under a PE environment supporting more devices is really really nice.

Thanks

Thanks for the reply El_Pescador.

I have run my "RESTOREGHOST.EXE" through its paces and it seems identical to what is called "ghost32.exe" in the US: It can create and restore images, there is no optical drive support.

So, what I can contribute to this thread is: .

The German RESTOREGHOST.EXE from Ghost 10 works great with BartPE!

I won't be retiring my trusty Ghost 2003 boot disks just yet, but this is a great find.

Thanks to Grizzly for making the original discovery.

Cheers,
GhostUserD

thanks for the input . our german friends will be glad to hear the news.

BodyAndSpirit wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2007 at 11:51pm:

Not inside the the retail consumer realm of Norton Ghost, but the corporate-oriented Symantec Ghost Solution Suite series does so quite handily if you can sweet-talk a vendor into selling you a minimum of five 'seats'.