Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes - an update with more woes
Thanks, but unfortunately a no-go. Acronis has a link on their web site referring to issues with the laptop I'm trying to back up (HP). From what I could dig up on the net, Norton Ghost 2003 should support win7 without any problems (using CLI), only newer versions should not be working properly. Heh, time to become creative: My next attempt will be trying to run Ghost from a VM within a *nix live CD on a USB pen that has all the necessary drivers. *Anything* seems better than Win7 System Restore, as this beast takes forever to finish. Josh MacCraw wrote: As Ghost is not serving that either, maybe you should try the Acronis boot disk, no? On 10/8/2010 11:59 AM, Soren wrote: snip To say it straight, forget about Linux's dd, and Acronis in this case, as I want absolute reliablity, and neither do serve that. I know Symantec is working on a new version of Ghost that works within Win7, so this could be a common problem? snip
Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes - an update with more woes
On Friday 08 October 2010 19:59:12 Soren wrote:
Booting from a normally usable floppy on CD (floppy disk emulation),
it only generates this exact error message:
Type the name of the command interpreter (e.g.,
C:\WINDOWS.COMMAND.COM) A
Basically that error message is saying I can't find Command.com on
drive C: In which case just reply A:\command.com assuming a DOS
bootable floppy disk.
Or make sure that the disk is bootable and Command.com is in the root
directory of the floppy disk. You may need a Config.sys file with
the line A:\command.com in it.
Well, after getting an external USB floppy drive ('only' 45 US bucks
here in DK...), the laptop now boots properly from a floppy disk,
except no CD/DVD drive is detected. I tried this with no less than
eleven diferent boot disks, and all were no-go. The CD driver isn't
loaded is the common error message.
In that case you need a driver for the CD and a line in the Config.sys
file pointing to it eg: A:\CD.sys. You will now need
an Autoexec.bat file with the correct parameters for the CD drive.
The second - and maybe most important thing - is that while it's
possible to start ghost.exe from this USB floppy drive, the error
message is ...no drive to clone (11093)... appears. Nice :)
Thats simply because you don't have a CD driver loaded ! Ghost can't
see the CD drive.
This could be caused by either the fact that a CD driver is not
loaded, or that a 2003 Ghost is not supporting newer systems. A
Google search didn't bring me any closer.
Ghost works just fine from a floppy with access to a usable CD drive.
To say it straight, forget about Linux's dd, and Acronis in this
case, as I want absolute reliablity, and neither do serve that.
Rubbish ! If used properly then both work as advertised.
I know Symantec is working on a new version of Ghost that works
within Win7, so this could be a common problem?
Any suggestions?
If SATA's the problem (seems obvious), where do I find a boot floppy
for this??? (bootdisk.com doesn't fix this)
Assuming SATA is supported by the BIOS then it shouldn't be a problem.
If drivers are needed then they will probably be available somewhere on
the net. Though I must admit I've not yet met a situation where I've
needed SATA drivers.
Thanks.
/soren
HTH, YMMV.
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Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes - an update with more woes
As Ghost is not serving that either, maybe you should try the Acronis boot disk, no? On 10/8/2010 11:59 AM, Soren wrote: snip To say it straight, forget about Linux's dd, and Acronis in this case, as I want absolute reliablity, and neither do serve that. I know Symantec is working on a new version of Ghost that works within Win7, so this could be a common problem? snip
Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes - an update with more woes
Thanks for the input so far on this.
Suffering from a bad knee injury keeping me immobile even for computer use for
weeks, the status now is:
The laptop is still an HP G62 i3 dual core w/4GB RAM, and 320GB SATA 7.200 HDD.
BIOS is upgraded to latest version. HP support isn't helpfull, to say the least.
Booting from a normally usable floppy on CD (floppy disk emulation), it only
generates this exact error message:
Type the name of the command interpreter (e.g., C:\WINDOWS.COMMAND.COM)
A
Using the Redirect command at this stage is new to me, so here I am completely
blank...???
Well, after getting an external USB floppy drive ('only' 45 US bucks here in DK...), the laptop now boots properly from a floppy disk, except no CD/DVD drive is detected.
I tried this with no less than eleven diferent boot disks, and all were no-go. The CD driver isn't loaded is the common error message.
The second - and maybe most important thing - is that while it's possible to start ghost.exe from this USB floppy drive, the error message is ...no drive to clone
(11093)... appears. Nice :)
This could be caused by either the fact that a CD driver is not loaded, or that
a 2003 Ghost is not supporting newer systems. A Google search didn't bring me
any closer.
Any solutions?
Any similar clone programs out there?
To say it straight, forget about Linux's dd, and Acronis in this case, as I
want absolute reliablity, and neither do serve that.
I know Symantec is working on a new version of Ghost that works within Win7, so
this could be a common problem?
Any suggestions?
If SATA's the problem (seems obvious), where do I find a boot floppy for
this??? (bootdisk.com doesn't fix this)
Thanks.
/soren
