Hi
My notebook was send back to Asus for repair and I just got it back with xp clean installed. Luckily I made a backup with Ghost 12 but the notebook just won't boot from the cd. After it says "press any key to boot from cd" I see the Asus startup screen, the cd makes some noise and then it says "press any key to boot from cd" again, and so on. Driver validation says the boot cd has all the drivers for a correct startup and on my old desktop pc the cd boots correctly. Ghost 10 does boot correctly from the notebook but I can't restore the backup files I made with Ghost 12 with that version.
I also tried the Lightsout restore utility to be sure it wasn't the cd drive that failed, but that didn't work as well, the notebook kept on rebooting and all I saw was a black screen, it resulted in reinstalling xp because I didn't know what to do, I couldn't even get in the bios.

So now I'm stuck, anybody knows what I could try next? I spend an hour to read all the topics here and couldn't find one with the same problem.

Hi Brian.

I did make a custom recovery disk and I checked it afterwards with driver validation.

The program says that "All detected  storage devices and network cards have drivers in the symantec recovery disk", so that could not be the problem.

Another strange thing: in the folder which contains the backup, there is a notepad with the name "gearext.wo_ident"
In here it says:



Could this be part of spyware??? Than maybe the backup contains a virus of some sort and I could better spent my time on reinstalling everything I had instead of backin up with ghost.

Great, thanks. It has to be a driver problem. maybe symantec can sent me a new copy customized for my notebook.

I just saw your addition on Gear. It's OK. Gear is the CD/DVD burning component of Ghost.