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cardinal23

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How to restore - Ghost 10.0
Feb 28^th, 2007 at 1:47pm

My friend's HDD dies.
We DO have a Ghost image on an External drive.

He removed the old drive and put in a brand new one.

The Norton Recovery Console doesn't see the new drive.

Does the new (empty) drive need to be prepared for use in some way? (It is a Seagate SATA 160 GB).

He is running the Seagate Utility, but it's Wizard froze.
Is something wrong or are we missing a preparation step?

Thank you.

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Re: How to restore - Ghost 10.0
Reply #1 - Feb 28^th, 2007 at 3:39pm

cardinal23 wrote on Feb 28^th, 2007 at 1:47pm:

The Norton Recovery Console doesn't see the new drive.
Does the new (empty) drive need to be prepared for use in some way? (It is a Seagate SATA 160 GB).

cardinal23,

It doesn't need to be partitioned or formatted. You can do this if that is your preference.

Have a look in the BIOS. Is the HD showing? Is the SATA port turned ON.

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	Re: How to restore - Ghost 10.0 Reply #2 - Mar 1^st, 2007 at 8:54am I would have thought the same thing, Brian. However, the drive was not seen. Seagate comes with a CD. We ran the wizard on that CD. Then the drive was recognized - and our data was recovered. Whoopee! btw: What is the MBT (Master Boot Table?) option. It was unchecked by default. We left it unchecked.
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Reply #3 - Mar 1^st, 2007 at 2:02pm

In Windows you have to "Initialize" a brand new HD before it can be partitioned. This just means writing a MBR. But the HD is "seen" prior to the initializing. I think I've always been able to see HDs without a MBR from the Ghost RE and restore an image.

Whenever you restore an image to a different HD (not the HD from where the image was created) you should tick "Restore MBR". You didn't and in most cases it doesn't matter as Ghost will write a generic MBR.

Dan Goodell wrote on Aug 21^st, 2006 at 8:54pm:

Right, it doesn't matter if it's just an ordinary bootable partition.

It would matter if you had a special MBR, such as boot managers, Disk Manager, EZ-Bios, encrypted file systems, Go-Back, or the special MBRs some manufacturers are starting to use to enable their on-disk restore or HPA access.

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Re: How to restore - Ghost 10.0
Reply #4 - Mar 1^st, 2007 at 2:27pm

I know this is covered elsewhere, but do you know what the latest information is on Restoring a Ghost Image to a different computer? Thanks. This was a thread that I actually started long ago, called STOLEN COMPUTER. There were pages of posts. Do you recall what the latest wisdom on the important capability is? Thank you.

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	Re: How to restore - Ghost 10.0 Reply #5 - Mar 1^st, 2007 at 2:44pm Nothing much has changed. This is an addition that looks interesting. http://www.uiu4you.com/uiu_release_notes.html http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=11695...
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	Re: How to restore - Ghost 10.0 Reply #6 - Mar 1^st, 2007 at 4:50pm My understanding of the University Imaging Utility is that it costs $1,007 minimum (50 licenses x 20.14 = $1007) which is a too expensive for me. http://www.binaryresearch.net/products/the_universal_imaging_utility/purchase
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