Bill,
Well, after attempting to import the files, Norton Ghost went through
all of them and then presents me with an error message... and crashes.
I think we're on the right track though, so I'm going to attempt to
restore the backup on another system to see if it's a program
incompatibility or sy
Bill,
Thanks for the suggestion. You were right on with it, but there was one
additional step required for the process to begin (oddly enough, I
couldn't find ANY documentation regarding this).
>From the File menu you have to choose "Import Backup..." and then choose
the folder where the FBF fil
Derek,
I downloaded Ghost 12 (Windows) and took a look at it. Here's what I found:
1) Go to the Home or Tasks screen
2) In the left pane of the Recover My Files window, select File and Folder
as the search method.
3) Type a search term into the search box
You might need to tell Ghost where the
Hey Bill,
At this point after re-installing Norton Ghost, any method I can find to
restore the files within the program are coming up with Ghost saying
that it can't recognize the files.
Even an Open File dialog has the filter set to specific extensions, and
when I am able to change the extension
Hi Derek,
The fbf files are "file backup format" files... these are not the usual disk
image backups but rather individual files backed up in a proprietary
compressed format.
Newer versions of Ghost and Norton Backup & Restore create .fbf files when
you are doing *file* backups of directories
Yesterday I decided it was time to wipe my system's hard drive and
re-install Windows. But before I started down that path, I made a
backup of my iTunes library, Revolution Projects and other various files
using Norton's Ghost. I use the program mainly to create images of
damaged hard drives, and
