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Name: billy
Date: May 2, 2002 at 16:28:57 Pacific
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Tried to run norton ghost on xp get this message norton ghost cannotrun on nt based systems please open or use not sure which dos.how do i do this as i thought there was no dos in xp i thought it was done away with....



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Response Number 1
Name: jason
Date: May 2, 2002 at 16:34:19 Pacific
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not sure what you mean.

go to run, then type cmd

you're in dos


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Response Number 2
Name: adamr
Date: May 2, 2002 at 16:42:35 Pacific
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i know this isnt a solution to the problem but its works just fine on my XP with NTSF. not really sure why if would give this error. might try to re-install ghost and see what happens then...


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Response Number 3
Name: billy
Date: May 2, 2002 at 16:55:02 Pacific
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Dont you mean nfts anyway thats the file system i have.If it cant run on nt based systems thats xp is it not .but you say it runs ok with you so i must have done something wrong ill just have to figure out what..........thanks for replys and any more would be welcome..


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Response Number 4
Name: billy
Date: May 2, 2002 at 17:03:28 Pacific
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Im doing it now its ntfs


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Response Number 5
Name: ShutMeUpOrDown:)
Date: May 2, 2002 at 17:23:05 Pacific
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Response Number 6
Name: tropic
Date: May 2, 2002 at 17:58:12 Pacific
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Cool guide. Just so you know, even though the latest versions of Ghost will make perfect images of NTFS partitions/drives, they cannot save the images onto an NTFS-formatted partition.


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Response Number 7
Name: kinel
Date: May 2, 2002 at 23:32:06 Pacific
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Simplest way is to boot from a 9x floppy with ghost.exe on it but tropic is correct, you can only save images to a DOS partition (or direct to CDR with latest versions), not NTFS.

Tip: If you've got hibernation enabled turn it off before imaging to keep the Ghost image size down to a minimum.


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Response Number 8
Name: Billy
Date: May 3, 2002 at 07:35:11 Pacific
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You need to use Norton Ghost 2002.

It works perfectly with XP.

Some systems may need to have the Ghost Boot disk boot with MSDOS instead of PCDOS (default).


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Response Number 9
Name: billy
Date: May 3, 2002 at 09:35:01 Pacific
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so you can get ms dos on xp. also does it take a lot of mb as it must copy everything on your computer...........


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