Eric the Grey
I used Norton Ghost 8 to backup my main HD prior to installing SP2 for XP. Everything seem to go find, and SP2 causes some problems, so I decided to back it out.
Unfortunately, Ghost saved the images to CDR, and 5 of the set of 30 images had problems and cannot be read from the CDR's. I never thought there would be an issue, since I have never had a problem while burning to it.
So, the downside is, the entire contents of my C drive are gone, and apparently unaccessable because Ghost will not open up the individual .GHO files unless they are ALL available.
So my question is, is there any possible way to open up and extract files from the remaining image files? If so, how?
I've tried using the Ghost Explorer, but with no success. I can only open the very first image, and nothing more.
I would dearly love to restore my "My Documents" folder since there are a lot of files there, that cannot be recreated or replaced and my previous (pkzipped) backup of that folder seems to have dropped off the face of the earth.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Eric the Grey
Unfortunately, Ghost saved the images to CDR, and 5 of the set of 30 images had problems and cannot be read from the CDR's. I never thought there would be an issue, since I have never had a problem while burning to it.
So, the downside is, the entire contents of my C drive are gone, and apparently unaccessable because Ghost will not open up the individual .GHO files unless they are ALL available.
So my question is, is there any possible way to open up and extract files from the remaining image files? If so, how?
I've tried using the Ghost Explorer, but with no success. I can only open the very first image, and nothing more.
I would dearly love to restore my "My Documents" folder since there are a lot of files there, that cannot be recreated or replaced and my previous (pkzipped) backup of that folder seems to have dropped off the face of the earth.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Eric the Grey
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BillyG.
I would have much rather preferred the option for differential backups vs incremental but that's all they offered so...
Because of this, by time the third night of backups was completed, I was too afraid something like your situation could happen to me so:
I opted to make the software perform a FULL backup nightly and the incremental one (it forces you to schedule at least one, weird!) is scheduled an hour after the full one is scheduled (to allow the full to finish first). Then when I get up the next day (or whenever), I just delete the previous FULL backup (and the incremental one that is there once a week) and run a quick defrag on the external HD that this image backup is restored to.
None of this solves your problem obviously but it does prevent it from happening to anybody else.
FYI: I'm using the latest Ghost, 9.0 (in case there is any difference from scheduling parameters with earlier versions).
G/L.
Because of this, by time the third night of backups was completed, I was too afraid something like your situation could happen to me so:
I opted to make the software perform a FULL backup nightly and the incremental one (it forces you to schedule at least one, weird!) is scheduled an hour after the full one is scheduled (to allow the full to finish first). Then when I get up the next day (or whenever), I just delete the previous FULL backup (and the incremental one that is there once a week) and run a quick defrag on the external HD that this image backup is restored to.
None of this solves your problem obviously but it does prevent it from happening to anybody else.
FYI: I'm using the latest Ghost, 9.0 (in case there is any difference from scheduling parameters with earlier versions).
G/L.
BillyG.
speaking of Ghost... I had a chance to try a system recovery with my full image file from last night and (drum roll please!!) IT WORKED GREAT. I went thru System Recovery (F10 at bootup) with the Ghost CD in the drive and followed the directions.
One weird thing though, it had my backup external HD as D:\ (which is really my OEM HD second partition), not F:\ (which is my new external Ghost 9.0 image backup HD) like it should have been. It was kinda hokey but it did work once I realized how to point the Ghost software to the image file that I wanted it to use.
Been going strong for 3 hours (with a reboot immediately after the image restore).
G/L.
One weird thing though, it had my backup external HD as D:\ (which is really my OEM HD second partition), not F:\ (which is my new external Ghost 9.0 image backup HD) like it should have been. It was kinda hokey but it did work once I realized how to point the Ghost software to the image file that I wanted it to use.
Been going strong for 3 hours (with a reboot immediately after the image restore).
G/L.
