Yeah, that'd be rad...  I'd like to see that.  I told you guys about what I did to my girlfriends Dell, I damn near got laughed at.  Had to restore the damn thing from an XP install all the way up.....    sucked, I was up half the night.

HP BRIO > SONY VAIO IMAGE RESTORATION IN GHOST 2003 from BOOTABLE CD

SUCCESS.....   NOT!!!!!

Not a chance in hell.  That screen that comes on and tells you to boot from windows, start in safe mode, with last working configuration etc.  is starting to give me nightmares.  Loops back to the beggining and that's where you're stuck.

I did a restore from a partition image and it all went to hell.  BUt here's something interesting, When I backed up the VAIO I did a disk image rather than a partition image.  NOw bear with me cos I'm no expert, but I would assume that would transfer both existing partitions on the hard drive (primary and recovery) to DVD.

So why is it then, that after sh*tcanning the system in general and subsequently having to restore the disk image priorly made with my tail between my legs did I get the message in Ghost "Norton Ghost needs to create a new image span, insert disc or select new drive"  I finally figured it was probably asking for all of my DVD's that had the image like it wanted to size them up, maybe like compression programs do when you span across multiple volumes.  But when I stuck all the DVD's in one by one it finally got to the last one and said it was looking for an additional consecutive file that didn't exist.

What's that all about?  At the bottom it said in the "what's happening right now" section "destination partion too small, some source data will not be transferred-----  HELLO, I just made the backup image from the same hard drive last night, Might have something to do with the two partitions-I don''t know. 

So, then I got worried and restarted the whole damn thing.  This time I did a restore partition from image and so far it's at about 40% and it's hard to type with my fingers crossed.

Why couldn't I restore a disk image from a disk image?
Restoring the partition image, I only restored the main bootable one (active, primary) with the OS on it, I didn't restore the recovery one yet and I might not after all.

I just don't get it, I feel like I'm meddling where I don't belong but it only makes me meddle even harder the next time because I guess that's just how I learn the best.

Any Ideas?

Now that is interesting!

I've been meaning to try acronis, the program I thought I had wasn't that, I think it was something that had the name acronis in it on an ISO I acquired, Maybe an image or something, or maybe that's where the ISO was created.  I think it was some disc utilities or something but not the Acronis program for imaging.  Looks like I'm going to have to look into it.

Thanks for the experiment.

note, i posted a link to this thread in the ghost guide, on the page where i discuss Restoring an Image, specifically,.. restoring an image to a different computer .. at the bottom of this page:

http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_3.htm

i always thot restoring an image to a new/different computer was taboo, but apparently, i was wrong.

Brian wrote on Jun 30^th, 2006 at 2:49am:


My arm is getting tired.

Readers of this thread may also be interested in:  Universal Imaging Utility.

I am new to this forum, and actually inexperienced with forums at all.
My question is this: I have often used Ghost (8) to image and then restore computers, but a recent attempt failed on more than one new disk. All the data were transfered (I checked that using my  BART boot disk, and TOTALCMD), but the new disk would not boot the computer. I suspected the image itself was corrupt, but the same result occurred using a different image. Any ideas what can be done? Thanks,
Martin