Hi, all.

Recently I submitted posts to a Computing.Net thread. This particular thread was asking for help on creating a bootable CD for Norton Ghost. The method I suggested, was to boot from the first CD of a previous Ghost backup set and this works perfectly for me. However, no-one has acknowledged any of my posts and I am wondering why. Have I overlooked something obvious?

Ted.
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Hi Ted. No, you haven't overlooked anything. I have been hanging around here a long time and it is not unusual to get no reply from the people we help. We only get a reply about 25% of the time. It's rather rude, but that's the way it is. Rgds.

Please post back within 24 hours or I will delete the post from my follow up list. Thanks. It would be a courtesy if you would post back and let us know if the fix worked or not.

Hi Ted
If you have Nero you can easily create a boot disk from a bootable Ghost floppy boot disk.

Hi there, per.

Many thanks for your reply. I was starting to wonder if there was a big snag in my method that I hadn't discovered yet.

Ted.

Hi, dtech10

"If you have Nero you can easily create a boot disk from a bootable Ghost floppy boot disk."

Unfortunately, my Ghost creates two floppies, the second contains Ghost.exe.

I have seen a number of posts describing how to modify the floppies and then burn as a bootable CD, but my method works okay.

Ted.

I believe you create a bootable image from the first floppy using Nero but add the contents of the second floppy to the cd before burning it.

That is how I do it for Drive Image which is similar in that it has two disks one bootable and the other contains the program.

I have in fact extended this method to create customised automated recovery disks.

Look here for more detail.

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HI mosaddique,

The link in your post above isn't working (hyperlink error). I believe you meant THIS one.

Regards

i_XpUser

No need to make the image CD bootable. Simply boot to the Norton disk and you should get an option to restore there. At least thats the way Norton Systemworks Pro 2003 works.

mossadique & XPUser.

Thanks for your replies. I have seen one method where you have to edit the bootable Recovery floppy, but I can't open the "CONFIG.SYS" file on the disk, it keeps asking what program I want to open it with.

Ted.

Config.sys is a text-based file. Open it with notepad.

i_XpUser

OtheHill.

I also have Norton System Works Pro. I uninstalled it recently with the intention of re-installing it onto another partition, but it won't let me, I keep getting the message that NSW has expired. My virus definitions have expired, but I didn't know all the other applications would expire also.

Ghost won't install either. It thinks that Ghost is already installed. I've deleted all "Ghost" and "Symantec" entries in the Registry and and in The "User\Settings\Applications" folder and also followed all the instructions in the Symantec Help files.

Thankfully, I had created a set of Recovery floppies. I copied a backup of Ghost to another partition and extracted Ghost Explorer.exe and its Help file, and it works perfectly, so I don't need NSW now.

XpUser

Must have been have asleep when I did that link. Thanks for the correction.

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XpUser.

NotePad did open the Config.sys file. Many thanks.

Ted.

Ted
You may not have uninstalled the Norton Systemwork programs properly. If not, this causes much havoc. Try using a registry cleaner to remove the registry entries you missed. I guarantee you did miss some. Try Regcleaner 4.3. Free, safe and works on XP. Find it here: http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm

OtheHill

Yes I have used Regcleaner and RegScrubXP and also manually deleted heaps of Symantec, Norton and Ghost entries in the Registry. I also tried Regseeker, but was too scared to use it as it found about 600 other invalid entries. ( Not Symantec).

I also deleted Symantec and Ghost files in Settings\Applications\Microsoft.... forgotten the exact string.

One strange thing, though. Whenever I tried to install Ghost only, using the Installation file in the Ghost folder, I would get "Ted" appearing in the "User_Name" on the "User Name and Organization" page. Obviously there is still a file I've missed with my details on it somewhere. I temporarily renamed "Ted" in my Docs & Settings folder and in the Startup menu, just in case Ghost was reading it from there.

I think they insert a registry entry that has nothing to do with norton/symantec and the installer looks for it. Check the ini files. If the software is uninstalled as symantec instructs these problems shouldn't occur. There is something in the instruction on the order of removal for the optional programs. Go back, I believe is the worst to get rid of, although I have never used it. If running XP I don't see the purpose. Same as another program in there that tracks the installations. I don't install that one either. Good to know how to separate Ghost. That is why I bought Systemworks.

OtheHill.

Thanks for your interest. I will check out the .ini files (Will have to find out how to do that first.)

Although I am quite happy with my set up now it would be nice to know the answer to this problem.

Ted.