Complete PC Backup feature only available on certain versions of Vista, I
think Ultimate and Business Vista but works great....

"tonj" wrote:

> I ran straight into a brick wall with this combination. I've been using (and swearing by) Norton Ghost 2003 for years to backup and
> restore my hard drives, right from my Windows 98 days to Windows XP. But in the last month I've installed Windows Vista Home
> Premium on a test machine and using NG2003 I did one backup (to image file) of the very first virgin install, and another backup
> (again to image file) on a fully setup Vista install. Because I'm only testing I did not activate the installation. Today I got the
> dreaded blue screen of death (dodgy driver update I think) so I went for a restore using the NG2003 floppy boot disc but it didn't
> work. After the restore had finished I rebooted the machine but the bootup screen stops early and says:
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> Windows failed to start.A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
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> 1) Insert your windows installation disc and restart your computer
> 2) Choose your language settings and then click Next
> 3) Click 'Repair your Computer'.
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> If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.
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> File: \windows\system32\windload.exe
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> Status: 0xc000000e
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> Info: the selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.
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> I tried restoring both of the two different backups I had - but I got the same reboot screen.
> So I then tried a different hard drive, again trying both of the backup images - but I got the same reboot screen.
> I'm thinking maybe Vista uses a file system that is beyond the capabilites of NG2003 but thats only a guess.
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> So if it transpires that my Norton Ghost days are over, can anyone recommend a good imaging/cloning program that will work with
> Windows Vista drives and also work from a boot floppy? I don't like doing backups from Windows, I like a good old fashioned boot
> floppy.
> Thanks for any help.
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