Just to clear this in my head. You restored an image of the Win7 partition, overwriting Win7. Is that correct? The original reason for wanting to clone was to upgrade the hard drive from GB to GB.
In the process I accidentally deleted the operating system partition and thus had to rely on the backup images I had which where made using Ghost. However, the Windows 7 Professional did not recover completely. In checking the CBS. More details needed I'm afraid. I see you are now using the GB HD. Or another app? Which method did you use?
What brand is your computer? I just noticed an anomaly in your partinfo. Your geometry is reported as heads in one section and heads in another. Lenovo laptops have heads geometry as I understand but your partinfo shows two types of geometry. I'll have to think about this. Restoring to the GB HD was a good move. It should have worked but it didn't. Were there hidden partitions on the GB HD? Windows 7 always installs a hidden "System Reserved Partition" unless the user specifically does an installation to prevent it.
Also, OEM's like Lenovo always seem to have extra partitions as well for tools or recovery. Did you use some kind of third party tool to remove these partitions and resize the windows partition to take up that free space? Or did you create a partition and then install Windows 7 into it as a clean installation from a retail install disk? I don't want to do a clean Win7 install if I can avoid it. I will have to re-install everything Just a thought but you have restored images taken months ago when your computer was working normally and restoring these images doesn't result in a normally working computer.
Did the images Verify when they were taken? Do they Verify now? Faulty RAM can do strange things to images. Can you check your RAM? Back to square one. I have tried Norton Ghost both with drive copy and image and then restore.
Did you at any point have that drive in an external case connected by USB or has it only been connected to the motherboard of the system? Edit- To try to clarify my question, I'm thinking that the large drive must have been partitioned somehow other then entirely through the Lenevo laptop.
All the partitions on that drive show as heads. Either it was done on another system with heads, or in an external case, or with a third party tool that did it incorrecly. The large drive has always been in an USB 2. I always start any Ghost process with an empty partition deleting any existing partitions using Disk Management.
I only have the ability to attach one hard drive to the Lenovo laptop motherboard. Lets say you created partitions using an external drive heads. The partition boundaries would be set using the geometry of heads. Is it possible that the problem exists with Windows 7 bit systems only? Is Lajos also running bit Windows 7? Thank you so much for saying that.
The reality is that I'm just a software engineer and a complete computer geek! There have been some users having problems with Ghost 15 on Windows 7 64 bit.
We should also try at some point soon using 'msconfig' to disable all other startup programs except Ghost to make sure there is no conflict with any other software. From the other thread, Lajos is on Windows XP 32 bit which is another reason for seperating the threads.
Once again, thank you so much for your speedy, helpful responses! Dedication like yours is what makes great software this is from another computer geek! I was intrigued by your idea of possible startup conflicts, so I disabled ALL startup programs via msconfig and rebooted. Same result, unfortunately. If no one responds soon I will send a couple of PM's to folks I am pretty sure would have done some testing on this combination and ask them to chime in with opinions.
From one computer geek to another, thank you for doing the msconfig test. For others to get some background the original thread was here.
I've heard from a couple of people regarding this issue. There have been no encountered problems even remotely resembling the issue you are seeing, running Ghost 15 with Windows 7 64 bit. There is no magic answer to this issue.
As I mentioned before, some have reported issues with Ghost 15 and Windows 7 but thus far all I have heard about are minor issues, nothing as severe as what you are seeing. Thanks again for your continued support! Yesterday, I used the Norton Tech Support chat service and had the technician read all of the posts we've made so far. He had me do exactly what you suggested. We did full check disks Steps on both target and source drives.
Although it took four hours to complete, unfortunately it did not fix the problem. Both procedures indicated that there were no problems with the disks. The process went late into the night, so I'm hoping that they'll call me back today with the next step to take. I'm sincerely hoping that a solution can be found to this problem. I've been using Norton Ghost and other Norton products for many years now and am a true believer in them!
Thanks for the update. Once confirming this, I'd like you to try doing a backup directly from the Ghost recovery CD instead of within Windows and see if this completes OK. This is important for a few reasons, not the least of which is to get Windows pretty much out of the picture in case there is any sort of problems with Windows. It also will run in the recovery environment as 32 bit instead of 64 bit so it would be interesting to see if there is a difference.
No problems were noted on either disk. It worked fine! So, thus far we know that within Windows, file backup works but system backup does not. We also know that system backup works using the recovery CD. One other piece of possibly relevent information. While working with the Norton tech last night, we noted that the system freeze-up occurs before Ghost gave an estimated time of completion. The tech said that this was significant information but I unfortunately could not understand him well enough to pass on his explanation.
They had me on hold for over 40 minutes last night until I finally hung up at to go to bed. Sure hope they call me back! I'm surprised but not surprised at the same time that it worked from the recovery environment, if you know what I mean.
I think in the meantime you have a workaround as we say in the software world and can at least create a backup image from the recovery environment. I'm out of things to try, quite honestly. I'm going to contact a Symantec employee who is really good with Ghost issues and see if he can offer further guidance on this. I think he might want to see your partition information so please go ahead and collect that as follows.
Please run the program called PartInfo. This will create a file called partinfo. Please attach to this thread by clicking on the Add Attachments link at the bottom. Just to confirm, did you use all default options when you performed the backup in the recovery environment? I want to try one other thing. Can you edit your backup settings and on the second page I believe it is, check the box which says "Ignore bad sectors during Copy".
Also set it to NOT verify the backup. I doubt this will make a difference but let's see. The ignore option is under Advanced options tab. I know your disk is good as chkdsk confirms this and also the fact that you can create the backup from the recovery environment.
So this request is just a data point. I'm doing a large backup to a network drive now, so I'll try your procedure in a few hours. While I was looking at some of the Ghost settings, I noticed an Event Log and discovered an error entry which was recorded when my computer froze last night.
Perhaps this information might be useful? However, now Norton Ghost is no longer available for the Home user. It was discontinued by Symantec in Indeed you can still download the latest version - Norton Ghost 15, but it only offers day free trial and then you need to pay for it.
Here in this guide, you will get the detailed steps about how to use Norton Ghost As we have we mentioned above, it only offers days free trial. If you prefer a free tool to help you backup, restore or clone your hard drive, you can refer to the next part to get the best free alternative to Norton Ghost.
Install Norton Ghost and open it. It will run a step-by-step wizard the first time you open it. At last, you will see the Easy Setup interface where you can create a backup at once. You can also click Cancel option and set the backup task later.
Here we choose the latter one. You can click OK to accept the default settings or click a setting to modify it. Whichever you choose, you can type the file name you need in the box under Find files to recover and click Search to find it.
On Recover My Computer screen, find and choose the right system restore point and click Recover Now to make it. Depending on which version of the product you have purchased, Symantec Recovery Disk is either included on your product CD or as a separate CD.
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