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Alternatively, if I create now a new SRD, how do I know that the raid drivers will be included to be able to restore to a raid enabled PC?

Ghost generally does a pretty good job of figuring it out if the hardware is in the system. And it tries to grab drivers for the hardware it sees. However, we allowed for the fact that the hardware might not be in the system. As a result there is a way in the wizard to add a driver if either Ghost can't detect the need for it or you are going to add it later. To manually add a driver choose Custom and follow the prompts.

Per the forums Participation Guidelines and Terms of Service we can not permit posting of personal information including email addresses. We encourage all users to carefully consider who they give personal information, including email addresses. Even if the hardware different. We only need to install windows for 10 minutes.

Including office and a number of commonly used software. And hardware drivers! Be very careful when communicating sensitive information. Is a different capacity hard drive considered "different hardware"? The original drive is partitioned with a C, D and a hidden service partition. I successfully created a recovery point with the original drive on an external USB drive. I then installed the new drive and tried to recover after booting with the recovery CD.

It gave me the option to restore C and D but said that the hidden partition was invalid. I selected C and D drives. Some 14 hour later the process was completed but it will not boot windows. One selection says that the HW config is wrong and it can not read the disk.

The other same title but with a " 1" after it says it is missing "hal. When I select "change active partition" I get a error but it shows ID as the entire drive, and ID 2 as the service partition. It reports ID 1 as primary and bootable. It reports ID 2 as not visible. With the original drive installed, I selected "one time backup". The wizard shows the C, D and hidden service drive had show hidden checked. Selected all three for backup. Backed up to external USB drive with standard compression but not sure if I selected "verify recovery point".

I did not run any command files. Since I selected everything at once, I assume that this is one job. Selected "recover my computer". I was presented with the recovery point stored on the USB drive.

It say it contained C, D and service disks. I selected all three even though it said that the service partition was invalid. That didn't work. I tried again and selected only the C, D drives. Now if I try to recover as above, the "Recover My Computer Wizard" says all drives and target drives are invalid, probably because it no longer sees the original C drive confirmed by using "explore my computer".

If I reinstall the original HD, all recovery points are valid. I did not see an option to select a recovery point. Funny you should mention Acronis. We are testing that also for our servers I get a BSOD.

I would be happy to go in and update the drivers, but I can't even get there. Ghost Solution Suite is not a Norton product. Ghost Solution Suite is Symantec enterprise solution.

You may want to visit the Ghost Solution Suite board on the enterprise forums. The community you are posting in is spefically designed to target Norton consumer products. Thank you for the information. I think, perhaps, this is where the confussion had come into play. My co-workers had heard that Ghost was able to handle dissimiliar hardware Only to find out that it doesn't. I'm sorry that you received bad information. I know that our PM folks would love to know where that kind of information came from as it is not something that Symantec has ever claimed that Ghost could do.

And, jbir , to answer your question: no, unfortunately not. The image has to be enabled for Restore Anywhere on creation and Ghost can not do that. So, when you get a copy of BESR, you need to create an image with it prior to restoring it on your dissimilar hardware.

My current working computer is running WinXP but it is not using raid drives but all required raid drivers are installed on it. I have an older Ghost 12 image of this same computer when it was using raid1 drives. I would like to backup my current configuration and restore it to the same computer after raid is enabled. This is a different case and is doable in Ghost. The others on this thread are wanting to restore to substantially different hardware.

In your case you are restoring to the same machine so everything is the same except for the raid. You have done the critical step in that the raid drivers are on the machine. After you are sure the SRD can handle your raid and your machine is setup the way you want, back it up, enable your raid, boot to the SRD and restore the image. Currently, raid is not enabled on my computer. If I run validate, how does ghost know that it may need the raid drivers in the future? Alternatively, if I create now a new SRD, how do I know that the raid drivers will be included to be able to restore to a raid enabled PC?

Ghost generally does a pretty good job of figuring it out if the hardware is in the system. And it tries to grab drivers for the hardware it sees.

However, we allowed for the fact that the hardware might not be in the system. As a result there is a way in the wizard to add a driver if either Ghost can't detect the need for it or you are going to add it later. To manually add a driver choose Custom and follow the prompts. Per the forums Participation Guidelines and Terms of Service we can not permit posting of personal information including email addresses. We encourage all users to carefully consider who they give personal information, including email addresses.

Even if the hardware different. We only need to install windows for 10 minutes. Including office and a number of commonly used software. And hardware drivers! Enter the following commands:. You can also create and store image backup to that USB, then when your computer goes wrong, you can boot your computer from the USB drive and perform a restore. Restart your computer and enter the BIOS boot options menu. Choose the bootable USB drive and boot your computer from it.

As you can see, the whole process is kind of time-consuming and you may meet some unexpected errors because of improper operation. And do not forget that it only offers you a day free trial version.

Why not try one free Norton Ghost alternative? It offers more powerful backup options compared to Norton Ghost and can help you create bootable USB in only a few clicks. On internet, some users report that they cannot find a way to run the Ghost utility from USB key, because they don't have a CD drive bay.

Now, let's have a closer look at this scenario. I have a disk image ghost of the disk need to be restored, and believe the ghost. My laptop does not have a a cd-rom or floppy drive. Do you have similar issue?

Step 1. After the in place upgrade it still just recognized the CPU as single core but ALL other hardware was updated just fine. I am absolutely sure that I could have gotten that to work with little additional effort except that I was planning to upgrade to Vista right after that anyway so I did not bother messing with it further on XP.

When I upgraded to Vista it resolved that last minor issue. It really is very straight forward. For many like myself with a few hundred programs this is the way to go. The only drawback really is that you have to re-download all Windows Critical updates as these typically are "undone" with the in place upgrade. Minor price to pay for not having to reinstall everything. Did that new computer boot? I haven't read any information on HAL changes by this process. Perfect timing dude!

I was just getting ready to walk away from the computer and head off to bed! Oh yes, it booted just fine. The absolute only problem was that it ran slower than it should have because it was only allowing use of but one of the 4 CPU cores. I'm not sure about how the HAL changed though I assume it must have been, what I do know is that the hardware changes have always been resolved properly with that one minor exception of multi-core CPU.

For each of these upgrades I had a significant hardware upgrade involved as well. This is on top of the typical hard drive failure which I have had a few times, one of which was triggered by a massive power surge which to my chagrin managed to ZAP my hard drive even through what should have been a pretty high end UPS system.

My test computer is an old Pentium 4 model. It uses halacpi. If I try halmacpi. My main computer is a dual core Pentium D. I'm pretty sure it will boot with either HAL but I haven't tested to see if it is slow with halacpi. I'll try that. It could well be the HAL but as you said there is no way to know for sure at this point.

This was the only case I ran into where a bit of messing around would have been required to get past that last small hurdle. Seems pretty unlikely that a repair upgrade would handle everything so beautifully at least times unless it was properly dealing with the HAL.

The 'technical' side of me kind of wishes I had solved that one minor mystery on XP before upgrading to Vista but oh well.

Back to top. AllenM Guru Norton Fighter Reg: Dec Kudos 4 Stats. Hi All, I am posting this for general information for all. Check the following options: Verify recovery point before restore - optional and takes longer if checked but a good precaution. Check for file system errors after recovery - again optional Resize restored drive - not optional if you want to have the extra HD space available to you after the restore.

Partition type - primary. Set drive active for booting Restore original disk signature - see also Chapter 14 in Ghost user guide. Otherwise or if problems are seen preventing you from booting proceed as follows: In most cases you can recover from this by simply doing what is referred to by Microsoft as an in place upgrade.

Let me know if you have questions on any of this. I have the same question 0. Kudos 0. Reg: Apr Allen, Nice presentation. I agree. Reg: Aug Excellent Post, Allen. It should be made a "sticky"! Brubaker Super Phishing Phryer Nicely done Allen. I expect we'll be linking to your post. Allen: Please forgive my ignorance but this could only work if the new computer does not anything installed on it at all, right?