BleepingComputer.com: Xp Repair After Failed Norton Ghost 2003

Well done, happy computing !

Louis

Well you almost got it, the last thing you need to doto finish the fix ,,,,,, (old school) boot a win98 cd or floppy run fdisk and set the partition active.
ghost creates a boot partition and makes you old partition inactive,

I experienced the same problem while installing Ghost 2003. I discovered this forum while searching for a solution and the last post gave me the hint that I needed. Unlike provocateur, I didn't delete any partitions but could not get XP to boot. I discovered a BartPE CD that my son had made for me when I got the computer and used it to boot up and look around. I offloaded my important files, figuring that I was in for a format and re-install.

After saving the files I fiddled with the Bart CD and found a program on it called Diskpart by Microsoft. I had to do some looking for explanations on the commands but finally figured out how to read the partitions and saw that the one with XP was not enabled. I enabled it with Diskpart and rebooted into XP. Using the disk manager in XP, I then deleted the Ghost partition and am back up and running - whew! I think I'll look for a safer way to back up my computer.

Thanks, you guys.

Same booting problem after using the Norton Ghost 2003, Every times boot on PC DOS and stuck at same screen, also drive letter changed. Search the solution, try the method on Norton web site, no positive result.

Solution:
Boot with ERD 2007, using the disk management tool to see the disk drive letter and make active the windows partition. Reboot the Laptop. Windows working normal.

ok - this post is old but I ran into the same problem today and worked around it.

here's how it started
fresh install of XP w/ SP3 with some basic progs (office / AV / etc)
decided to make an image of the drive before handing it off to the EU and saw a copy of Ghost 2003 laying around (hadn't tried to run it through Windows before, usually just DOS to try and recover a drive)
Put in a second HDD and loaded Ghost - it rebooted and froze.
Wouldn't reboot back to windows (ghreboot wouldn't work, from the DOS prompt or booting from the CD and running it).
Computer just hangs, no error, does not go past Ghost PC DOS (no windows logo etc.)

Ran a recovery console from XP CD
- fixboot
reboot - computer just hangs - no errors

back to recovery console from XP CD
set "systemroot" as d:\windows (as ghost had made a partition C:)
reboot - NTLDR missing.
(better!)

boot to a DOS from a floppy, fdisk - set the windows partition as "active"
reboot - success!

uninstall - Norton Ghost - reboot - delete 8MB partition that ghost created (now d:) - reboot
success!

Take Ghost 2003 CD to shredder - success!

i found a solution to restore the original windows partition using windows xp cd. when you see the windows partition like this:

original Drive
C:Partition 1
d:partition 2

Norton Ghost 2003 failure SATA drive
E: Partion 1
c:ghreboot (to be deleted)
d: partition 2

Then after you delete the ghost partition reboot and boot to xp cd. when you saw the REPAIR even though you havent see the partition click REPAIR and follow instruction...use command FIXBOOT then restart..have a good day

Responding to a thread over 3 years old...about using a 2003 program...seems questionable to me, but thanks anyway .

Louis

this forum help me a lot regarding my experience using this norton ghost 2003 program...i've been using this program for a long years with IDE to IDE with no problem...

But using with SATA its not compatible and might others do the same way and got a problem fixing their computer..They look for option searching solution, this forum might help.

Im just sharing...