I've been using Ghost 2003 for years and now the "Run Now" button doesn't respond from the GUI. I'm using XP SP2 all latest patches. Latest anti-virus data definitions. All the anti-spyware stuff.

I've uninstalled Ghost, cleared out the temp and prefetch dirs, rebooted reinstalled and it still doesn't work.

I can start Ghost from a CD but for whatever reason, most of the backups on a hard disk aren't displayed but I did successfully restore an earlier version of the 'C' partition from a hard disk. But the Ghost "Run Now" button still doesn't work (even after the restore!)

Getting desperate, I ran fixmbr and fixboot from the XP SP2 CD repair mode. That didn't resolve the problem either.

Then I uninstalled Ghost 2003 again, removed every reference to Ghost in the registry, deleted every file that had the word 'Ghost', rebooted, reinstalled and "Run Now" button still doesn't respond. No errors & no action.

I also can't set the virtual partition or do an integrity check because (you guessed it), the "Run Now" button doesn't respond.

However, I can open the backups and view or extract the contents so I know the backups that Ghost can't see from DOS mode aren't corrupted.

Any ideas?

After a few hours (actually, quite a few hours), I figured it out.  I would never install Ghost 2003 on a user's computer.

Bill Q. Smuthers

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For the good of all--I would be interested in knowing what you found to be the problem--what did you *figure* out?

So, why wouldn't you install Ghost 2003?