I'm having some issues with getting the disk backup in Norton 2003 to create an image of the primary disk to a WD Passport external USB hard drive on a specific machine. I've looked through several threads here but can't find anyone who's been doing this with a laptop and is in the same boat as me.
I'm using a Dell Latitude D620, so there is no floppy drive.
I HAVE gotten this to work on a Latitude D420, but took a couple of reboots to get it to work.
Scenario:
The Setup - Launching Ghost to do a backup, I choose to backup Disk 1, which has the Dell Utility partition, then the C drive. The WD Passport drive is setup with the drive letter E: (D is taken by the DVD-ROM). I wish to store the image to the USB drive, right in the root directory as D620.gho.
I've enabled USB 2.0 support and "Assign drive letters to USB devices". I've also added the "-NOIDE" flag to the ghost command line arguments in the advanced settings.
I am using the virtual partition when the machine reboots itself, as there is no floppy drive. The first time I reboot, PC-Dos sees the USB drive and gives it ID6. The FIRST TIME, ghost also gives the USB drive the drive letter of E and launches into ghost.
However at this point, all you have is the blank Norton ghost 2003 screen with the symantec logo, blue borders, grey bottom and center box and an hourglass for the mouse. It seems to be hung here.
So I reboot. I go through the PC Dos process again, but this time, it simply hangs where it tries to assign a drive letter to the USB drive.
Quote:Iomega ASPI USB-EHC1 1.0 V.13 09 May 2003
Copyright (C) 2003 Iomega corporation.
All rights reserved
ID6=WD 16000BEVExternal
Installed succesfully
Iomega Guest Driver Version 8.5
Finding a drive letter for your Iomega drive...
After a while, it says it cannot assign a drive letter, and gives you the 3 options (exit dos, windows, retry operation). Sometimes if you pick retry, it goes back into the blank Ghost 2003 screen with the hourglass and does NOTHING.
Quote:No drive letters were added.
Microsoft (R) Mouse Driver Version 8.20
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1983-1992
Copyright (C) IBM Corp. 1992-1993.
Mouse driver installed
The previous operation has failed.
Please enter the number of the action you wish to take:
(1) Exit to Dos
(2) Return to Windows
(3) Return the operation
Here's the task log for the process if I go back to windows
Quote:BackupOperation 0
-- GHOST\GSCRIPT.TXT ----------------------------------------------------------
[BackupOperation]
AlreadyProcessedFile = YES
BeginTimeParam = Tue Feb 27 09:25:22 2007
CompressionParam = 1
DestFingerprintParam = 5fe79018-be26-437c-8a45-df4237023f02
DestPartitionOffsetParam = 63
ExecutionStateParam = ExecutionStarted
FileIdParam = 743500
MiscParam = -NOIDE
PathParam = \D620.gho
SourceFingerprintParam = 4663738d-a957-4dd0-ba3b-5d33ac5327ec
UseImageDescriptionParam = YES
UseLFOParam = NO
WindowsPathParam = E:\D620.gho
-- GHOST\ARGS.TXT -------------------------------------------------------------
-igb -z1 -imgdescfile=\ghost\imgdescp.txt -wizard "-clone,mode=create,src=@GF4663738d-a957-4dd0-ba3b-5d33ac5327ec,dst=@FIND[ID:743500]\D620.gho" -ghwrap -NOIDE
-- AUTOEXEC.BAT ---------------------------------------------------------------
@echo off
SET PATH=C:\GHOST;C:\
SET PROMPT=To return to Windows, type ghreboot and press Enter.$_$p$g
SET TZ=GHO+06:00
if "%CONFIG%" == "WINDOWS" goto WINDOWS
\GUEST.EXE
MOUSE.COM
CD \GHOST
GHWRAP.EXE
goto EOF
:WINDOWS
\GHOST\GHREBOOT.EXE
:EOF
-- CONFIG.SYS -----------------------------------------------------------------
[MENU]
menuitem=GHOST,Run Norton Ghost Dos Operation
menuitem=WINDOWS,Return to Windows without running Norton Ghost
menudefault=GHOST,3
[GHOST]
LASTDRIVE=Z
DEVICE = \USB\ASPIEHCI.SYS /int /all
[WINDOWS]
When I did this on the 420, the same thing happend the first time the machine reboots: assigns drive letter E to the usb drive, goes into ghost and hangs. So I reboot, and it hangs on assigning the drive letter to the USB drive. THIRD reboot: it assigns the drive letter, kicks into Ghost and actually works this time. However, the D420 has no CD Drive, just a FYI ... it comes with an external USB cd drive enclosure.
Is there a solution or fix this that DOES NOT involve creating a floppy boot disk?
Any input is appreciated.