Will I be able to restore my Ghost 12 images from my secondary HD and do a restore to a NEW HD?  I know Ghost 12 has a feature you can copy HD's from one to another but in this case the main HD is DEAD and all I have are Ghost 12 images.

I've looked high and low and have read most all of FAQ's but cannot seem to find a clear answer to this question.

If the answer is NO,  it can't be done, is this a feature Norton has missed?

Thanks in advance for any and all replies.....

Rod

Hey my friend,  THANKS - BIG Time!  Ohhhh,  soooooo simple. Just couldn't find the steps in the Ghost User guide.  Anyway  Thanks.

I tried to get my new drive up and running but I did run into a snag at Step 11,  Next;  I get the following Error message,  EC950006: The Destination is not Valid.

I'm using the original Ghost 12 CD and I did shut down the PC before starting the procedure.  I do believe the SATA drive is good. 

Any ideas what's up?

Brian,  you're good!

I was trying to do a restore with an image that was physically 15.7GB onto a drive that was 74GB but the true size of the image,  uncompressed or whatever, was actually 189GB's,  the size of the drive I made the image from.

I guess that fits the description of the error message I was getting.

So I guess we're done here.....How did you like the Super Bowl?

Hey Brian,

Didn't noticed you were in Australia,  sorry you didn't get to see the Super Bowl - was one of the best ever.

Anyway,  I do have Partition Magic and will probably take your suggestion next week sometime.

Thanks for all your help.  And by the way,  was your answer(Link) to my main question about How To Restore a Recovery point etc. in the Norton Ghost 12 User guide?

Noobie, here! I never had to replace a hard drive and my Dell PC desktop Dimension 510 says I have a hard disk failure..It won't even start up!

In the links above, it says it's easy to replace & re-load the drive and lists steps for Ghost 12:

But Please:
1. Can the SAME steps be used with Ghost 10.
2. And I'm really scared-off by some threads I read about Dell's 'partitions!'  PLEASE tell me I need not worry about that... and that the 'recover my computer' is easy to do!

I definitely need a step by step process... and while the Ghost 10 guide spells things out, I'm afraid some of it is way over my head! 

Thanks very much!!!

Thanks for the advice, Brian. I'll be replacing my 250Gb with a 500GB Western Digital. I'll assume I can 'go bigger' with no issue. 

Regarding the 'hidden partitions' I don't think I backed those up on the Iomega external drive I used (for backup).

Also: I had about 100GB of the total 250GB.... used-up on my broken Dell drive.

Question: You say 'load the Ghost 10' CD and boot from the CD, correct? When I do that...will the new drive then automatically 'see' the Iomega external drive, when I go to restore my files/programs, etc...?

Or... do I need to do something special... before that particular step?

One more: "....put  'dot' in primary partition." I guess you mean there's a 'box' I need to check or select for that? Right?

What can I say! Thanks much... ande I'm anxioulsy awaiting your reply....

Smokey

Smokey,

I'd forgotten that your old HD won't boot. So there are questions you can't answer.

There may be a slight problem with your boot.ini on the new HD as you didn't backup the hidden Diagnostic partition. Don't worry, it's easy to fix. So if the new HD fails to boot and gives a "hal.dll is missing" message get back to us and we'll talk you through the fix.

Let us know your progress either way.

You will need to tick "Resize drive to fill unallocated space" during the Ghost CD restore. Don't do any partitioning with the new HD. Just install it in your computer, check that it's seen in the BIOS and boot to the Ghost CD.

Hi, Brian!

It worked 'like a charm!'

One strange thing did happen, though... as the Symantec window came-up (where you make a selection for what do do), the cursor never came up. The up/down keys on would work, but all I could do was exit set up.

That left me with a blank screen. So I re-inserted the Norton disk, and even after turning power off/on... and adding the disk ...it wouldn't run.

So... I did the 'F12' function on power on... selected the CD drive... hit enter... and Norton disk started running. Kept my fingers crossed... and this time the cursor showed up, no problem... and now.... 'all is well!'

Thanks so much for the help... and the quick responses to my questions!

"Go!! Radified Forum!"

Smokey