Norton Ghost, Screwed up Windows Partition

[Ddraig]

Howdy,

I am in a bit of a situation. I heared my HD clicking a little bit so I thought I better backup my computer as soon as possible. Couldn't find the software I was going to use to backup to my iOmega External Drive so I found a copy of Ghost I had gotten with it.

I installed Ghost did two of the quick demos on how to create an image file and save it to a dvd/cd-rom then set about creating a new image.

I set everything up following the steps, didn't change any of the settings but when it went to preform the reboot into Dos mode. It rebooted a BIOS message said it will change the order of your boot options or something like that. I couldn't get the PC to boot and I think it has screwed up my Windows Partition. Got the infamous Invalid Partition - Please retry or insert disk.

At this point I'm at a lost as to how to proceed?

I managed to get it to bring up the PC-DOS Norton Ghost off of the Norton CD itself. And at the moment its doing an integrity check, whilst I sit here at work stressing.

Can anyone give me any ideas on how to proceed or how this happened?

I'm thinking something like partition magic or something to restore my partitions is in order but don't keep up on the stuff lately. I don't have a floppy either so I'd have to make it a bootable CD.

Thanks,
Owen

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[Freestone]

Look at the Boot order in BIOS and ensure your hard drive is in the list. Add it if not, and if it is, move it up in the list.

 

[Ddraig]

Yep it is, I set to boot first, and second, CD-ROM 3rd. But it also has a Raid controller, so my HD doesn't actually show up in BIOS.

I'm thinking norton must have moved the parition to another letter or something tried to create its own boot partition and failed.

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[allteltec]

If the HD dosen't show up in bios the old ghost that runs from dos would not see the Raid HD. I think you would have to use a newer ghost 9 or 10 or one of the outher ghost type programs that backs up while in windows. You need Raid drivers to be loaded to see the HD.

 

[Ddraig]

Its a copy of Norton Ghost 2003, and got it into the dos mode. I think it sees the HD, or it could be my external 250 giger as well.

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[Freestone]

If your boot drive is off the RAID controller then it (the RAID controller) either has to appear in the boot order (some show as a SCSI device) or it has its own boot BIOS.

 

[Ddraig]

Thanks for the help guys. I think I managed to figure out what the issue was. I was booting with an external USB attached and it wasn't sure how to handle it so it was screwing up norton from rebooting properly. Unplugged it and rebooted and it went through the process I was originally expecting.

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