Confirm use of Ghost on Vista

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Can anyone confirm if Ghost 8.x software works for this OS? Thank you.
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Would not even attempt Ghost 8.0 and Ghost 10 needs .NET which may
cause even more grief.

Try Acronis v9.0 there is a trial version works for me.
http://www.acronis.com/

Do not install it in Vista, put it on an XP box then make a bootable
CD with it. Use that to backup Vista.

Jonah
 
Just tried Acronis Home Edition 9.0 on Vista and it wouldn't install. Are
you using a different edition?
 
JP said:
Can anyone confirm if Ghost 8.x software works for this OS? Thank you.
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Ghost 8.0 working just fine up to and including Beta 2. I would agree
with avoiding Ghost 9.x and 10.x, but that's not a statement specific
to Vista, either.

In relation to the new Vista boot manager, you typically need -FDSP
(disk signature preserve) during restore so that the disk signature
will not have changed between original and restored copy. (Several of
the default BCD entries that get created involve the disk signature.)

If you intend to restore to a different partition than you backed up
from, then you will need to "prepare" BCD for this by switching away
from the default "partition" references (which reference both the disk
signature and the partition number) and make them "boot" references.
This would be prior to making the Ghost image, so that the boot
manager restored from the Ghost image won't care about the disk
signature or partition number it finds itself with.

See the following thread for more information:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=181082&SiteID=1

Alan Adams
 
Michael -
to quote Jonah
"Do not install it in Vista, put it on an XP box then make a bootable CD
with it. Use that to backup Vista."

kl
 
Just tried Acronis Home Edition 9.0 on Vista and it wouldn't install. Are
you using a different edition?
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Acronis 9.0 V3633

Don't install it in Vista, put it in XP and make a bootable CD > then
boot from the CD to backup Vista.

The only problem you may have is Acronis not seeing a HDD especially
if its a new SATA, if thats the case Acronis have updated drivers on
their site.

Jonah
 
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JP <[email protected]> said:
Can anyone confirm if Ghost 8.x software works for this OS? Thank you.
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What I'm looking for confirmation is if you can use Ghost 10's
"restore" CD to at least actually *make* an image of a Vista hard disk
to an external hard disk

If you boot from Ghost 10's restore CD, you can go to "Recover", then
"Recover using a legacy Ghost Image".

This launches Ghost 8.2 "corporate edition".

I can then (like on XP) do Local --> Disk --> To Image to save an image
of my internal HD to my external HD.

Or at least that's what I *want* to do.


I've been unable to do that as we keep getting the message that:

A source volume could not be locked as it is in use by another process.
Do you wish to attempt to foce a dismount on the volume?
ALL OPEN HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.

If I say "yes", then another screen comes up that says "A source volume
could not be locked (640).

Needless to say, this all works with XP.


Suggestions?

- Steve
 
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JP <[email protected]> said:
Can anyone confirm if Ghost 8.x software works for this OS? Thank you.
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What I'm looking for confirmation is if you can use Ghost 10's
"restore" CD to at least actually *make* an image of a Vista hard disk
to an external hard disk

If you boot from Ghost 10's restore CD, you can go to "Recover", then
"Recover using a legacy Ghost Image".

This launches Ghost 8.2 "corporate edition".

I can then (like on XP) do Local --> Disk --> To Image to save an image
of my internal HD to my external HD.

Or at least that's what I *want* to do.


I've been unable to do that as we keep getting the message that:

A source volume could not be locked as it is in use by another process.
Do you wish to attempt to foce a dismount on the volume?
ALL OPEN HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.

If I say "yes", then another screen comes up that says "A source volume
could not be locked (640).

Needless to say, this all works with XP.


Suggestions?

- Steve
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Try Acronis, it works. Uses Linux drivers to boot from CD ya see -
reliable like - and no nebulous issues with vague error messages for
which the only remedy is uninstall / re-install your symantec
applications.

Vistas' drive set up is not the same as XP which is probably why Ghost
won't play. Acronis will back anything up, it takes a "true image" and
does not give a toss what OS it is imaging.

I use it for all flavours of Windows and Linux boxes with very few
problems. Had hardware (disk reading problem) with Acronis initially
on Vista and fixed with updated drivers from Acronis.

Jonah
 
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