Steve Erbach
erbachs at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 13:34:51 CDT 2007
Dear Group, I've used Norton Ghost for a long time as part of Norton SystemWorks. I use it to do a disk to disk backup of my entire hard disk. I recently upgraded to the latest version of SystemWorks. Lo! and behold! Ghost is no longer included with it! So I made a bootable diskette with Ghost on it from my wife's copy of SystemWorks 2003 and I've been using that. However, every time I run Ghost now I have trouble getting my computer going again. The main behavior of the system is that it'll get past the Windows XP progress bar thingie and up comes the blue-gray background, just before the login form appears. At that point, before the login form appears the system either reboots or shuts down. The past several times this has happened I've pretty much let it cycle through umpteen reboots until, finally, it stops rebooting or shutting itself off and allows me to log in. Then everything's hunky-dory until I run Ghost again. Not this time. Now I see a new error that the file C:\Windows\System32\Config\System is either missing or corrupt and that I should try the Repair option from the Windows XP installation disk. So I put in the XP install disk and everything looks like it's going along nicely; but when the main installation menu appears the system shuts itself off. I've tried this numerous times with the same result. I must be insane then, to expect that something different will happen if I just start it over again, eh? I have a 2002 version of Russinovich's ERD Commander. It gets ALMOST to the point where it asks me which hard disk to boot from when the system shuts down. I've run Spinrite 6 to no effect. I only used level 2, but I think I'll try level 4 while I go see Shrek the Third. That'll take 5 or 6 hours to complete. Right now I'm running the Ghost Check function on my C: drive.... Does this ring any bells with anyone? -- Regards, Steve Erbach Neenah, WI http://TheTownCrank.blogspot.com