Restoring from Norton Ghost-Image

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Restoring from Norton Ghost-Image

Intention:
1. Save a System-Partition to a ghost-image at point A.
2. fool around with the system (add new software etc.)
3. At point B restore system partition from ghost-image

Expectations:
the restored system is an exact copy as saved at point A.

in Practice:
the restored system works - but the registry as well as myriades of
links from folder 'documents and settings' as saved at point A are
purged with values from the actual system just before the
restore-operation (point B).


This means, the registry contains references to software that was
installed after point A. The Desktop contains whatever it contained at
Point B - with links to nonexisting programs. etc...
Is it meant to work like this? Is it possible to prevent it?


I appreciate your help.

Alfred
 
You must not have restored correctly. Or you must have backed up the wrong
partition in the first place.

It should have worked as per your "expectations"
 
- The image is OK (- checked it with Ghost explorer).
- The image-files are restored to the partition correctly - (with
Ghost.exe (default Ghost DOS diskette (no options applied)))
- The resulting restored system contains the merged desktop and registry
of the last system.

Perhaps it's got something to do with most applications being located on
an second partition or because its a multiboot-system.

Thanks John for your reply.
 
Ok. Clearly if you install some stuff on another partition and don't roll
the other partition back, then the program files on the other partition are
still going to be there, but I can't see how you'd have shortcuts to them in
your menus once you roll back C: drive.

And what I can't understand is this "merged registry". Unless you relocated
the registry to the partition somehow?
 
John said:
Ok. Clearly if you install some stuff on another partition and don't roll
the other partition back, then the program files on the other partition are
still going to be there,
Click to expand...
Agree, that's expected behviour.
but I can't see how you'd have shortcuts to them in
your menus once you roll back C: drive.
Click to expand...
Also didn't trust my eyes.

It's not that I'm in a desperate situation - I'm able to fix everything
to suit my purpose.
But I still wanted to know what's going on.

I just checked again:
- recovered a system from an image (year 2001) with FS2000 installed on it
- uninstalled FS2000 and deleted every entry for FS2000 from the registry.
- installed FS2002
- recovered from the same image (year 2001 and FS2002 didn't even exist)
FS2000 was recovered and Registry contained FS2000 and FS2002 entries.

Perhaps Norton does it for us. And as most of the time - they do a
little too much.
It's quite a while since I encouraged my customers to install any Norton
programs with all their LiveUpdate and LiveReg-stuff.
 
That's inconsistent with anything I've ever seen.

I really don't know what's going on there.
 
Don't worry about it.
At times I just get a little frustrated about Norton and alikes. They
seem to think the Taskbar, the Internetconnection, the Registry and the
whole System belongs to them, just because you bought a piece of
software from them.

bye John
 
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