Ghost broke it

So i have 2 computers that are the exact same and i was going to ghost one and put that image on the other. sounds easy then it gets complicated i do the step by step instructions and it says its going to restart into dos to do its operation so it does then it freezes. the computer wont return to windows or anything i just want to know if their is a disk that can fix this problem because i can go into dos and dir/w it says NOTHING about windows just ghreboot can this be fixed without wiping the whole hard drive?

 

im guessing your on the computer that you imaged?
there is this execellent guide on norton ghost
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sounds like you might have to format that machine and then try restoring the image again.
since it goes in to dos mode im guessing your using ghost 2003 right?
lodore

 

well actually this is for work im at home.. but yes its 2003.. it doesnt even try to go back into windows.. well it trys it just gets STUCK.. or frozen if you will..

Brandon

 

did norton ghost2003 report any errors before the reboot?
because if it did then it half restored then failed so it wont boot.
this happerned to me the other day while i was testing norton ghost 2003 on my test pc.
it had an error and couldnt finish restoring the image so it reported the error then when you reboot it just goes to a curser since the image didnt finish restoring.
so it probaly needs a format. then you could stick in the ghost bootable media and check the archive for interity to see if it passes or not.
what was the image on that you tryed to restore?
second internal drive?
external usb or firewire?
or other please name?
lodore

 

yes it said something about the usb that it may not work with them and then it said something about hard drive integrity i was guessing that it meant i havent defrag them in a while but as far as the image it was on my primary hard drive and i put the blank hard drive as the second they are both SATA internal. is their any way i can recover any data that was on windows?

 

2003 predates widespread SATA adoption Id go look for workarounds

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