Norton Ghost / K7N2delta-ILSR

Has anyone used Ghost (v7 in this case) to image a RAID 1 NTFS volume or partition on this controller and restored it successfully?
I can image and verify the drive which appears ok, I just don't know of a non-destructive method of telling whether it'll restore back to the stack correctly ... short of breaking the mirror but that's too dangerous.
Having had odd problems with booting various image configurations in the past I don't want to jump in with both feet and sink!
K7N2Delta ILSR
2 Maxtor 120Gb SATA, RAID 1
IDE 1 200Gb Seagate H/D (to take the image)
IDE 2 Sony DVD ROM & Sony DVD RW
BIOS mod 7.6 (Full RAID)
Promise TX RAID driver
Win XP SP1
AndyG

" Ghost and RAID
Ghost is not compatible with computers that use RAID. That is, Symantec Ghost 8.0 and earlier, and Norton Ghost 2003 and earlier, do not support RAID controllers on computers that are being imaged. In addition:
* Ghost does not work with software level RAID.
* Although Ghost might work in some limited circumstances with hardware level RAID, Symantec does not support using Ghost for cloning hardware level RAID drives.
* Ghost does support cloning drives that have had RAID removed, such as after you break a mirrored set.
Ghost and hardware-level RAID systems
Although it is not a supported feature, Ghost can sometimes create and restore images to hardware level RAID systems if you load the appropriate DOS ASPI driver to support this. Load the DOS ASPI driver when you create the image file and again when you restore the image file. DOS ASPI drivers can usually be obtained from the RAID hardware manufacturer. For other ASPI driver information, see the document Information on ASPI drivers.
Notes on getting Ghost to work with hardware RAID systems
* Use similar hardware: Restore the image file only to a computer that uses the same hardware as the source computer. Because the operating system needs the drivers for the array, the drives will be inaccessible on the destination computer unless the hardware is the same.
* SCSI or IDE: Ghost's ability to work with RAID arrays is not dependent on whether the array uses SCSI drives or IDE drives.
* Mirrored sets in Windows NT: To clone mirrored sets in Windows NT, break the mirror, run Ghost with the -NTIID switch ( -ntiid ), and then recreate the mirror using the Windows NT Disk Administrator. Note that duplexed disks are a type of mirrored set. See the document Cannot migrate Windows NT mirrored or striped sets to larger drives.
* Mirrored sets in Windows 2000/XP: Symantec Ghost 7.5, 8.0, and Norton Ghost 2003 support cloning a mirrored partition in Window 2000 and Windows XP provided that the source partition is on a Dynamic Disk and the image is restored to a Basic Disk. The restored partition is not mirrored. See the document Ghost compatibility with Dynamic partitions.
* Restore the partition rather than the disk: In some situations, Ghost may be able to restore a partition from a disk image when Ghost cannot restore the disk image."
Found at Symantic FAQ search
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/e44a397a948bb43e85256952006d83d1/7205dc44f3434700882566f10077bfd2?OpenDocument&src=bar_sch_nam

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Using Symantec Norton Ghost 14 on Bootcamp

Just a bit of information for those of you wondering what to use to backup your bootcamp side of your Apple product.
I use Ghost 14 and I have to say it has been fantastic. It took alot of figuring out and I could not find alot of posts about it so I self taught myself (don't use Symantec Support they are useless) and so thought I would write this to help others. I am not saying this is the best or only way, just the way that WORKED for me. There may of course be other easier ways that I do not know about as I am only amateur myself. Anyone who knows any different / easier way feel free to add comments:
THIS IS FOR WINDOWS XP / XP PRO USERS (RE-INSTALLING AN IMAGE ALREADY CREATED USING GHOST 14)
I have no experience of Vista but would presume a similar path.
1.) First of all you need to create a new partition with Bootcamp Assistant as you would normally do setting the partition size etc.
2.) Follow the instructions and insert the Windows Installation Disk when asked to do so. You have to do this as though you are going to put a brand new copy of XP on as the partition HAS TO BE formatted via the Windows Installation Disk.
3.) When you get top the Format instructions. Choose the Bootcamp partition and format using NTFS or FAT32 whichever is your choice (NTFS recommended).
4.) Once formatted system will restart and commence installing Windows.
5.) Whilst the system is restarting keep your finger on the eject key and eject the Windows Installation Disk.
6.) Insert the Symantec Recovery Disk.
7.) Turn your computer off / restart holding the Option key down until you get the Boot screen.
8.) Choose the Symantec (Windows) Disk
9.) When loaded up click Recover and choose your image and follow the instructions ensuring you have Use as Boot ticked without Disk Signature or MBR ticked.
10.) Wait until the image has been restored and restart holding down your Option Key and Choose the Windows Partition.
11.) You now Boot into Windows and have your Backup Image fully restored onto your Bootcamp Partition.
I have to say I was over the moon when it all worked. Fantastic! Anyone has any problems do drop me a line please.
FOR ACTUALLY INSTALLING AND MAKING BACKUPS IN THE FIRST PLACE JUST FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS THAT CAME WITH YOUR GHOST 14 SOFTWARE. NO POINT IN PUTTING THAT INFO HERE. THIS IS INFORMATION FOR "INSTALLING" A GHOST 14 IMAGE BACK INTO BOOTCAMP!
Again all I can say is that Ghost 14 Works good with Bootcamp! A great piece of software for the Windows Bootcamp user community. High recommended by me.
Hope this post helps all of you using / planning to use Ghost 14

If Norton Ghost is still under Norton's support, I recommend contacting them as I'm certain they have encountered something similar before.
Do you receive any errors? If so, what are they exactly?
I was not able to find your model notebook exactly. What is the exact model of this notebook?
NOTE: Do not provide the serial number, but providing the product number (not product key) will be sufficient.
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Help on PSU for K7N2Delta-ILSR

Hi, I already read the PSU guide but want to make more sure, can anyone help me see wheather my PSU enough power or not?
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Thanks.
Sorry I not really a computer expert, those item are recomend from my friend.

It's barely a step up from what you're using now...here is a review on it:
http://www.neoseeker.com/resourcelink.html?rlid=62172
This pic shows that the 12V rail is 18A which is 2A more than the one you have now...scrimping isn't going to make it better...
Enermax or Antec is the way to go...they both crank a lot more amps out of their rails than most...
Bonz

K7N2delta ILSR won't except video drivers?

I bought a K7N2delta ILSR & can't get it to accept the drivers for an ATI 9600? Before I install the drivers windows XP pro sets some drivers & I can alter the pixel settings, but once I install the ATI drivers I get nothing but a black screen? I boot & the windows XP splash screen comes up but the welcome screen never makes it? I can start in safe mode & the desktop is visable but once I go to regular boot I get nothing but a black screen?
I read a thread where they suggested using a two button mouse but that didn't work either? Any advice or suggestions?
Running BIOS 7.4. Should I flash back to 7.3? Reset CMOS & try over?
Anyone have suggestions?

I hate it when people don't reply back to their own thread to say if they resolved their problem(s) or not? I'm not sure what happend but I bought an fx5200 and installed the drivers to find out my AGP slot was not fried or anything else for that matter? I then removed the nvidia drivers & reinstalled the ati drivers for the 9600np to find that all is well & functional? I don't think this was caused by a bad agp seat but it could have been? All I know is that I don't appear to have a bad board.\
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T61P: Upgrading 100GB HDD to 250GB HDD using Norton Ghost

Hi, i am planning on upgrading the HDD in my t61p and would like to know, can i use Norton ghost on a desktop pc, with both 2.5" HDD attached to the desktop via USB enclosures, and make an image of the 100gb onto the 250gb? If not this, is there another method of duplicating the HDD's such as making recovery cd's and then using those cd's to place the image onto the new hdd?
Thanks in advance.

ToastMonk wrote:
Thanks everyone. I've done a copy with Carbon Copy Cloner and everything seems to be working fine. Good idea, woodmeister50 to test it before going through fiddle of installing it on mac mini.
Thanks ToastMonk. I just went through that process
although I was using Seagate's Thunderbolt adapter.
I was actually testing for many weeks as I had not
seen many reviews with Macs on the drive I
had purchased and wanted to make very sure all
was well.

Installation using Norton Ghost Image?

Could I possibly use a Norton Ghost Image of Windows XP to install BootCamp, and then upgrade from XP to Vista?
I purchased a manufactured desktop PC several years ago and they provided a Norton Ghost Image. The power supply short circuited about a year ago, and I used a Vista notebook in the interim. I currently have an iMac, but gaming options are not at all optimal with the Mac, so I decided BootCamp was the way to go instead of upgrading the broken PC or building a new one from scratch. Before the desktop shorted out, I had upgraded from XP to Vista, then reverted back to XP using the Norton Ghost image because of some compatibility issues (it was a rather weird PC... ran on two single core Xeon processors).
So that's my story... does anyone have an answer?

I am not sure if you can actually load that image on a boot camp partition however assume for a second that you will be able to load the disk on the partition. The image was made for a PC that you had bought and therefore an OEM version of Windows XP was installed. You will have validation issues. The image will also have drivers to run the pc that you had and will most certainly cause immediate issues with the Apple components.
I know your goal is to immediately upgrade to VISTA however I seriously doubt that you can get your XP installed. Why don't you simply install VISTA instead? You already have the VISTA disk so I asked.
Axel F.

Norton Ghost + Parallels?

Hello,
I just switched over to Parallels from Boot Camp. Before switching I made a backup of my XP install using Norton Ghost 10.0
I have these backup files on both a USB 2.0 and a Firewire external drive.
I have been unsuccessful in restoring my system using ghost 10.0 (mainly getting XP to restart using a startup disc and reading from the external drive).
Has anyone done this successfully??
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Just as an FYI... the most recent (and stable) beta of Parallels allows you to use your BootCamp installation:
http://forum.parallels.com/thread5997.html
It actually works quite well and you don't have to have two installations of Windows. I'm not sure how you might be able to restore your Ghost BootCamp image into Parallels. You may find you have problems even if you manage to get it to work as you'll be restoring an image that is using totally different drivers for just about every component. You may just want to start fresh with a clean install... or re-install BootCamp and then just use the BootCamp installation within Parallels (this is really the ideal solution).

Using Norton Ghost

I want to backup an image of my C; drive on my Media Hub. When setting up Ghost it asks for a username/password. What do I enter? I have a password for the files viewer but have nevfer provided a username. If I leave the username blank Ghost advises I must have a username?

If your drive C is using the NTFS format, Norton Ghost might be asking for the user login that you use when your logging into the PC. Norton Ghost might be looking at the security feature of NTFS to go thru the backup process and norton ghost might need the user login to be able to backup the files. I use a different software to create an image of my harddrive, you can get it here . It's a free software so be sure to read the userguide for it.
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Is it possible to restore a norton ghost Windows7 image to a bootcamp partition ?

Trying to setup a dual boot environment on a new Mac Air with MacOS and Windows7 using Bootcamp. Rather than the normal way of installing Win7 from the vanilla install media, is it possible to restore a Norton Ghost image of a different (PC) laptop to the new Win7 partition?

Two "no" on this.
Activation needs to be retail OS. That okay?
Moving Windows to another motherboard almost never works and is buggy and unstable. Been there tried that.
Ghost does not support Boot Camp and the UEFI/GPT scheme used. Nor does Acronis. Paragon Software has come along with Boot Camp support.

Not able to install Norton Ghost - Lightout within PSU4WH-00700P?

Model : Satellite U840-00700P (PSU4WH-00700P)
Norton Ghost 15 has been successfully installed within Win7, and create an image for backup, but when I try to restore image, there is no problem within win7, but after win7 restarts, Norton Ghost fails to launch restoring process.
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Does anyone have any experience on installing Norton Ghost - LightOut within this raid 0 setting between SSD and HDD's combination?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions

Most advanced users abandoned Norton Ghost in favor of Acronis True Image.
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http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

Norton Ghost Equivlent for OS X? BootCamp won't let me unpartition.

So here's the story... I used Boot Camp to install Vista RC1, I wanted to see the 64-bit version working on my new Macbook Pro. While installing Vista it is suggested to remove an "EFI" 200mb partition. It worked. But now I want to rid of the partition and put my HD back to 1 full piece, I just use Parallels for my very few windows "needs". But Boot Camp assistant says it is unable to put them back in to one, and I must Backup and use Disc Utility to format my HD and then just reinstall OS X. But I wanna be lazy... is there any option like a Norton ghost, or equivalent, that I could image all my data on the OS X partition... then format my HD back in to one piece, then reinstall the image (i have a 2nd mac to be able to push the image from). Or what would be the easiest way to backup my data... so there's less needing to reinstall apps and configure personal setting/data?
thanks.

You have two options:
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
Both of them are working fine.
Please note that you have to use an external HD to backup your existining one.
Mihalis.

VIA Rhine NDIS Driver FOR NORTON GHOST

Hi,
I've got MS KT4AV mobo with integrated LAN (driver is VIA Rhine II Fast ethernet).
I have all the drivers on driver CD and you can download them from numerous sites but it's very hard to get the NDIS / DOS driver.
I need to create disc to boot up norton ghost 2003 to work peer to peer.
I've used numerous other LAN cards and drivers and there NDIS2 drivers have always contained an oemsetup file for with setup information.
All the VIA drivers I've found have no NDIS2 folder and the oemsetup file is huge and is not recognised by ghost when i try to setup a NDIS2 bootable disc.
Below is the setup info i had in with my previous SMC network card NDIS2 driver (which worked fine), but with the VIA Rhine driver the information is about 20 pages long and isn't recognised by norton (and it's not in a NDIS file anyway, it just comes with all the driver files).
SMC1255="SMC EZ Card 10/100 (SMC1255TX)",0,ndis,ethernet,real,SMC1255,SMC1255_nif
; Install Sections
[SMC1255]
devdir=?:SMC1255.dos
device=SMC1255.dos,@devdir\SMC1255.dos
[SMC1255_nif]
drivername=SMC1255$
param=SLOT,"Slot number",int,"1,4,1",1
param=MEDIA,"Media Type",text,"UTP,UTP_FD,UTP_100,UTP_100FD,AUTODETECT","AUTODETECT"
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the correct commands so wanted norton ghost to setup the disc (it always has before).
I found a VIA Rhine NDIS2 drive at the link below but this has no oemsetup file and when i just load the DOS file it doesn't work.
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/
Any ides would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Rob

well..i still haven't solved it yet, coz Ghost doesn;t "like" the DOS driver...I e-mailed nvidia as well but its becoming a ping-pong match.
Reply from nvidia:
Quote
Hello,
This support website is designed to support NVIDIA direct sales products, such as the NVIDIA DualTV tuner card
and the NVIDIA PureVideo DVD decoder, and also pre-sales questions about NVIDIA technology.
NVIDIA is a market leader in graphics and digital media processors. NVIDIA does NOT build graphics cards,
motherboards or PCs. While our partners and customers all choose NVIDIA's technology as a core component for
their solutions, they do implement them differently and therefore it is not possible for NVIDIA to directly support their products.
To obtain support, please contact the appropriate manufacturer or vendor of your product. For your convenience,
a partial list of our partners and customers can be found here. http://www.nvidia.com/page/partner_support.html
Best regards,
NVIDIA
My question to them:
I have already downloaded the NDIS.zip as directed by your site to use with Norton Ghost 2003.
There are only 2 DOS files:
NVNDIS2.DOS & NDIS.DOS
I tried building the Ghost Network Boot Disk with each of the DOS files & each time I ger this error:
ERROR: 33 Unable to bind.
I let the Ghost Wizard do the disk build tho' - please see attached build sheet.
Client:   Norton Ghost
Destination:   Floppy Drive A:
Network Driver:
Template:   NVIDIA nForce 4
Driver:   NVNDIS2.DOS
Driver Type:   NDIS2 Driver
Configuration Files:
AUTOEXEC.BAT:
@echo off
SET TZ=GHO-08:00
prompt $p$g
\net\netbind.com
MOUSE.COM
echo Loading...
CD GHOST
GHOST.EXE
CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICE=\net\protman.dos /I:\net
DEVICE=\net\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICE=\net\NVNDIS2.DOS
LASTDRIVE = Z
PROTOCOL.INI:
[protman]
drivername=PROTMAN$
[pktdrv]
drivername=PKTDRV$
bindings=nic
intvec=0x60
chainvec=0x66
[nic]
drivername = UNDIS$

HT3777 Running Macbook Pro, Mac OS 10.6.8, Bootcamp 3.3, & W7 64 Home Premium. What do I use to backup my W7 Partition to create an image like Norton Ghost that I can use to restore partition.

Running Macbook Pro, Mac OS 10.6.8, Bootcamp 3.3, & W7 64 Home Premium. What do I use to backup my W7 Partition to create an image like Norton Ghost that I can use to restore windows partition.

Windows itself.
There really are "?" (Help} icons and the backup feature will even remind you to create a system restore image the first time.
(I still think a reference manual for $25 makes sense too, or at least learn to use Google.)
Was asked and answered - quite well - a couple times yesterday, that would avoid and save a lot of wear and tear.

Just Wanted To Verify: SuperDuper is Mac's Equivalent of Norton Ghost?

Coming from Windows land, the two most popular OS image solutions to me were Norton Ghost and, if you are WIndows VIsta, its built in imaging software.
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Are there other solutions?
Thanks.

What Welles points out is a key difference between those of us who use Macs and the poor suffering masses who don't. No matter how screwed up the internal HD becomes, you can always boot from the external clone and, in recent models, that clone can be a Firewire (preferred) or a USB (possible) drive. So you can use the clone to repair the original and, if the worst comes to pass but the internal HD is still usable, simply clone the clone back in. Bootable clones can be made with SD, CCC or even Disk Utility; however, the first two allow you to do differential updates, meaning you can resync the clone against the source, updating just the changes between the two, which takes a lot less time than doing a brand new complete clone all over again (i.e., my MBP is currently occupying 92GB of its HD; using SD and an external FW400/7200RPM HD, it takes about 115 minutes to do a clone).
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Cisco 4507 with VLANs and Norton Ghost

Hi Guys,
I have Cisco 4507 switch with multiple VLANs. The problem is that I can put Norton Ghost in one VLAN and it reimages the client with no problem.
But I want to reimage the clients in all VLANs in one go. Can some of the experts can tell me how to do that?
Thanks in advance.

We have a similar setup. We also have a 4507 with Norton Ghost. In this article on Ghost (Part 1-How Ghost starts the session)(http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/1999033015222425), it saids that ghost client uses broadcast initially to contact the Ghost Server. Since it uses broadcast, the broadcast arent going to traverse VLANs. Thats the point of VLANs is to minimize broadcasts. So in other words, lets say a client on VLAN1 broacasts to communicate with the ghost server. Well, if the ghost server is on VLAN1, then it will work of cource because the server will see the broadcast. If the ghost server is on a different VLAN, then its not going to see the broadcast.
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