This is the situation : i've got two hard diskes, the master is divided in 3 partitions. On the thirth partition i have put a norton ghost image of the first partition. But when i want to restore the first partition with this image, i 1) can't chose a partition, only a hard disk and 2) can't restore a hard disk with the image on it. the two hard disks are IDE What can i do to use this image without burning it onto a dvd ?
Ghost cannot restore to itself, you'll have to use Ghost to burn to a DVD. You need Ghost to do the burning because it also makes the DVD self booting and copies a dos copy of Ghost to the DVD so when the DVD boots, Ghost will take over and you can choose to restore inividual files or the complete partition.. You put the Ghost restore DVD into your DVD drive and reboot the machine, Ghost will load drivers and itself so you can do your duty.....
Hi, I've only ever used ghost of a bootbale floppy, but when it boots, you get the choice of "Disk To Disk" or "Partition To Partition". You need to use the 2nd of those 2 for yours to work. Hope it helps. Cheers
A little research showed another alternative. Using a dos floppy boot copy of Ghost, you can manually extract the files from the Ghost image file and direct wher and what particion that you want to extract them to. By choosing them all, you can effectivilly rebuild your first particion. The only problem is that doing it this way will not copy anything that belongs in track 0 which is the operatin systems primary boot sector, the Master Boot Record [MBR] resides there......
