Hi Dean,
Thanks for the reply.
What you suggest is my thought, too. However, I am in contact with the
person who built the computer and he doesn't, for some reason, want me
to do that. I don't understand why. He wants me to pull out the hard
drive and send it to him so he can extract the images stored on it, use
those to restore the drive to it's original state, then send the drive
back to me so I can reinstall it in the computer. That will take a week
and I'm not sure that I want to do that.
The computer has a video card with 256 megs of memory on it and a floppy
and a CD/DVD RW drive, too. Won't Windows XP Pro detect the hardware
and load drivers for them when it installs?
Also, the dual boot thing worries me. I don't understand why I have to
have a dual boot with the Win98 partition to run Ghost which creates an
image to the same physical drive where C: and the boot partition are
located. To me, that just means that if the hard drive physically
fails, I've lost everything with no hope of recovery.
I've a great believer in Ghost. I've used Ghost 2003 to image this
computer many times. I used it to create an image of C: drive on this
computer when I installed a larger hard drive. The restore operation
went flawlessly without a single glitch. Creating an image on the AMD
computer is the first time I've ever had a problem with it. I suspect
the problem has something to do with the Win98 partition on the new
computer. BTW, this computer has WinXP Home on it.
Thanks...
Loy
Dean Kukral wrote:
> Since it was a clean install and you have not loaded anything on it, I would
> just reformat the C: drive and re-install Windows on it. (I am not sure of
> the reason for making a Ghost image of a clean install.) If you still want
> an image, you can try again. If it doesn't work, format and make a clean
> install again. As long as there is nothing but Windows on it, you aren't
> losing anything that a clean install won't give you.
>
> Dean Kukral
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Loy Pressley" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 2:41 PM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Computer Won't Boot
>
>
> I'm desperate and all of you have always been so generous with your
> help, so...
>
> Last week I got a new computer that I had built for me. It is an AMD 64
> Athlon X2 that has a 400 watt power supply and runs at 3.8 GHz. It has
> WinXP Pro SP2 with all the updates on it. In has a 250 GB Seagate SATA
> hard drive. I was attempting to make an image using Ghost 2003 of C:
> drive to CD before I started loading it down with all my program. After
> I set up the image operation, Ghost did it's thing and restarted in PC
> Dos. Then, it immediately aborted and said it was going back to
> Windows. That is as far as it got and it has been that way ever since.
> I have tried rebooting and every time it goes back to Ghost, aborts and
> gives the same message as above, and then doesn't go back to windows or
> anything else. I've tried everything...even the Ghost emergency disks
> that I created before starting the imaging process. Nothing will work
> because it won't boot to Windows...it just hangs up in the Ghost program
> each time I try to reboot.
>
> More information that may have a bearing on this...when I got the new
> computer, it had a second partition on it that could be selected on boot
> up that took you immediately to Ghost where you could back up the C:
> drive to disk or to that partition itself. Using that Ghost I made a
> backup of the C: drive to CD, however, the image on the CDs isn't
> bootable which, it seems to me, makes the image created useless for
> restoring a failed hard drive.
>
> Anyway, my problem is that the computer will not reboot to Windows after
> trying to run the Ghost image program. I can get into the bios but
> there doesn't seem to be anything in there that will help.
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can give...
>
> Loy
>
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