Mac Pro 10.6.3
Boot Camp
Norton Ghost 15.0
Windows 7
Hard disk: Seagate Sata 2

I've just installed a new hard disk that is intended as a backup disk for Windows 7, installed through Boot Camp on the Mac Pro tower. I've chosen Norton Ghost as the backup software, and when I try to select the installed drive as the backup disk via Windows 7, I receive the following error messages: "H is a read only location and not a valid destination. Error E7D1001D: unable to open. Error EBAB03F1: access is denied."

On the Mac side in Disk Utility, I have erased the new disk using the "Zero Out Data" option, and the status information for this disk is: write status: read/write; s.m.a.r.t. status: verified; partition map scheme: GUID Partition Table.

Basically, the newly installed hard disk seems to have read and write status on the Mac side but not on the Windows 7 side.

Thanks for any tips on how to make Norton Ghost read this disk as read/write within Windows 7.

I've got it working now with MS-DOS (FAT) selected in the Partition - Format window, and Master Boot Record selected in the Partition - Options window.

However, I find that the Data Backup option in Norton Ghost doesn't want to work. In this case, I'm only selecting one music folder to backup on the same drive that the Windows 7 operating system is backed up on. The error message is: "no files matched the backup criteria," but I've selected the "My Music" folder that contains only music files in mp3 and wave formats.

Not sure why Norton Ghost isn't accepting this backup of one folder. Thanks for any tips.

I've now completed a full system disk image backup of the Windows 7 operating system with Norton Ghost 15 on another physical disk drive, and now I'm trying to create a restore point for a particular music folder on Windows 7.

To address your point, I suppose I could use Norton Ghost to create a restore point of the entire Windows 7 operating system, "instead" of using Ghost to "backup" the entire operating sytem. As you know, Windows 7 itself has restore point capability, but my limited experience with it has shown it to be not overly reliable.

It seems odd that Norton Ghost would be good at restore points but not as a backup of the entire operating system.

Thanks for correcting my terminology.

So if I understand you correctly, you use Norton Ghost for Recovery Points, and Second Copy 7 for a Files and Folder backup.

Another good point from you: the image recovery point of Windows 7 I've made using Norton Ghost is on a separate hard disk "without" an OS. And since this recovery hard disk has no operating system attached to it, you're saying not to use Norton Ghost for this purpose. In other words, Norton Ghost works best if it is creating an image recovery point onto a separate hard disk that has an operating system on it. Right?

Thanks for the clarification.

Presumably, you feel Norton Ghost is acceptable software for creating a disk image of an os that is stored on another hard disk. And, for whatever reason, Norton Ghost isn't good at creating data backups. As you said in an earlier posting on this thread: "Ghost 15 has one of the worst Files and Folders backup modules around. My advice is to avoid it."

I'm all set now.
I've created a disk image of Windows 7 on a separate hard drive with Norton Ghost, backed up Windows 7 folders on a separate hard drive with Karen's replicator, used online backup with Dropbox, and backed up data with cd's/dvd's stored off site.

Thanks again for the support, information and interest.

I'm not sure, I'll have to look into that. For now, I can say that I have the Home Premium version of Windows 7.

Here is a forum discussion about the 100 MB System Restored Partition that I just found.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/e5ff9492-c76...

Looks like another factor I'll have to consider if I have this partition system.

Here is a screenshot of my Disk Management window.