I have been using Symantec Ghost for quite a while with no issues. All of our PC's were 32-bit due to some old software that we could not use on 64-bit. Now I have a PC that is Windows 7 64-bit and I want to make a backup copy of it but when I put my Ghost bootable disk in it starts okay but here is the problem. I can see all my network drives and Local drives, but when I open them nothing is seen. It works completely fine on all of my 32-bit machines. If I get into Windows and put the bootable disk in the drive to run through the OS it sees all files on all drives fine, but I need it to work as bootable to create the image.I am assuming my problem is the file on the Disk is Ghost32.exe and does not work with 64-bit WindowsDoes anyone know how I can make a 64-bit bootable disk?I have all of the 64-bit Ghost files, but I cannot figure out how to create the disk through the Ghost Boot Wizard.I am using Symantec Ghost Console Version 11.5.1.2266 which is part of Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5.
Rob, I do not see anything in the link provided that says 32 vs. 64, but I have done 32 bit Windows 7 with a bootable disk with no issues.Francois, I created a bootable disk, but do not have a Ghost64.exe anywhere on the disk. On the PC that I have the Symantec Ghost Solution installed I have a Ghost64.exe in the Ghost folder (See Attachments), but it does not add it to the bootable disk when I create it. I am even creating the disk on a Windows 7 64 bit PC, but it still creates a 32 bit bootable disk. The syamtec link indicates that the Windows 7 OS in itself is not supported by the version in which you are running.
Windows 7 x86 and Windows 2k8R2 which only comes with X64 is the same base OS. The link indicates that neither are fully supported in the version you are running. As per getting the x86 to run indicates to me that it likely does support windows Vista and XP, which leads me to believe that this will not work with windows 7 x64.Remember not supported and doesn't work are two different things.I would look into upgrading Ghost to a version that specifically supports windows 8.1, 8, and 7 x64 so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel to get things rolling. I am using Ghost 11.5.1I was able to create the USB Bootable with adding the ghost64.exe but could not find it through the dos window. So I inserted a disk in the dvd rom drive with all of the same files and was able to navigate to that through dos.
Once I tried to run the ghost64.exe from that disk it said this version of ghost64.exe is not compatible with your operating system. It works just fine when I run in Windows itself so I am not sure why I am getting this message. I feel like I am a step closer, but it still does not seem to work. Hi,I know you have Ghost, but it's a very old way of doing things and Symantec themselves have stopped even making it. If I were you I would cut your losses and get Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013 and the new WADK. They are free Microsoft tools (solution accelerators) which will help you do what you are trying to do. It comes with a new command line tool called DISM and a few others which together will create a boot disk for you and then capture an image file - in Microsoft-ese a WIM.Note both Symantec and MS use the same platform for the boot disk: a disk called WinPE.
This is a cut down version of Windows with no GUI but enough driver support to see most disks and even most networks. This then allows you to capture an image and save it over the network.In your case, you have a hardware platform that can run 64-bit.
It happens to have 64-bit Windows installed. When you boot with WinPE (GhostPE or proper WinPE) neither cares what OS you have because it is not booting. WinPE just sees a disk, a newtwork and a command line. If you create a 32-bit WinPE you can run 32-bit DISM to capture the whole of disk 0 as a WIM file. If you create a 64-bit WinPE you can run 64-bit DISM and still capture the whole of disk 0.It does not matter. In fact in makes life a lot easier if you just stick with 32-bit boot disks and that avoids any mess with wow64 etc.A good reference is TechNet:The other tip is to forget boot CDs and use USB sticks instead as you can tweak them easily and add, delete and edit files, and skip the whole create/mount/burn cycle which quickly gets tedious.Mike.
Hi,No, you need to install MDT on another machine and create a bootable USB from it. There is a task-sequence called 'Capture'. This will build files you can copy to USB or an ISO that you can burn to CD, that you can boot the target machine. It will then offer to capture (image) that machine. You can choose to create either a 32-bit or 64-bit boot file (boot.wim) - it does not matter.
It just copies files and saves them in to a single compressed file called a WIM. You can then 'apply' that WIM back to a machine or mount it from any Windows machine to read the contents or even edit it if you mount it as read/write.I know it sounds pedantic of me but you seem stuck on the whole 64-bit idea. A hard-drive is just a disk. A disk has files. What determines the architecture is the OS you boot with.
For example, you could have 128-bit files on the disk and boot with a 32-bit OS, and still read the files.Stick with 32-bit WinPE, which you create in MDT.Mike.
Contents.History Binary Research developed Ghost in, New Zealand. After the Symantec acquisition, a few functions (such as translation into other languages) were moved elsewhere, but the main development remained in Auckland until October 2009 at which time much was moved to India. Technologies developed by 20/20 Software were integrated into Ghost after their acquisition by Symantec in April 2000. Ghost 3.1 The first versions of Ghost supported only the cloning of entire disks. However, version 3.1, released in 1997 supports cloning individual.
Ghost could clone a disk or partition to another disk or partition or to an image file. Ghost allows for writing a clone or image to a second disk in the same machine, another machine linked by a parallel or network cable, a network drive, or to a tape drive.Ghost 4.0 and 4.1 Version 4.0 of Ghost added technology, following the lead of a competitor,. Multicasting supports sending a single image simultaneously to other machines without putting greater stress on the network than by sending an image to a single machine. This version also introduced Ghost Explorer, a program which supports browsing the contents of an image file and extract individual files from it. Explorer was subsequently enhanced to support adding and deleting files in an image with, and later with,.
Until 2007, Ghost Explorer could not edit NTFS images. Ghost Explorer could work with images from older versions but only slowly; version 4 images contain indexes to find files rapidly. Version 4.0 also moved from to. The additional memory available allows Ghost to provide several levels of for images, and to provide the file browser.
In 1998, Ghost 4.1 supports password-protected images.Ghost 5.0 (Ghost 2000) Version 5.0 moved to. Unlike the of earlier versions, 5.0 uses a (GUI).
The Binary Research logo, two stars revolving around each other, plays on the main screen when the program is idle. In 1998, Gdisk, a script-based, was integrated in Ghost. Gdisk serves a role similar to, but has greater capabilities.Ghost for NetWare A Norton Ghost version for (called 2.0), released around 1999, supports partitions (although it runs in, like the others).Ghost 6.0 (Ghost 2001) Ghost 6.0, released in 2000, includes a management console for managing large numbers of machines. The console communicates with client software on managed computers and allows a to refresh the disk of a machine remotely.As a DOS-based program, Ghost requires machines running Windows to reboot to DOS to run it. Ghost 6.0 requires a separate DOS partition when used with the console.Ghost 7.0 / Ghost 2002 Released March 31, 2001, Norton Ghost version 7.0 (retail) was marketed as Norton Ghost 2002 Personal Edition.Ghost 7.5 Released December 14, 2001, Ghost 7.5 creates a virtual partition, a DOS partition which actually exists as a file within a normal Windows file system. This significantly eased systems management because the user no longer had to set up their own partition tables. Ghost 7.5 can write images to discs.
Later versions can write.Symantec Ghost 8.0 Ghost 8.0 can run directly from Windows. It is well-suited for placement on bootable media, such as ′s bootable CD. The corporate edition supports, and transfers via. Ghost 8.0 supports NTFS file system, although NTFS is not accessible from a DOS program.Transition from DOS The off-line version of Ghost, which runs from bootable media in place of the installed operating system, originally faced a number of driver support difficulties due to limitations of the increasingly obsolete 16-bit environment. Driver selection and configuration within DOS was non-trivial from the beginning, and the limited space available on floppy disks made disk cloning of several different disk controllers a difficult task, where different SCSI, USB, and CD-ROM drives were involved. Mouse support was possible but often left out due to the limited space for drivers on a floppy disk. Some devices such as USB often did not work using newer features such as USB 2.0, instead only operating at 1.0 speeds and taking hours to do what should have taken only a few minutes.
As widespread support for DOS went into decline, it became increasingly difficult to get hardware drivers for DOS for the newer hardware.Disk imaging competitors to Ghost have dealt with the decline of DOS by moving to other recovery environments such as, or, where they can draw on current driver development to be able to image newer models of disk controllers. Nevertheless, the DOS version of Ghost on compatible hardware configurations works much faster than most of the.nix based image and backup tools.Ghost 8 and later are Windows programs; as such, they can run on Windows PE, or and use the same plug and play hardware drivers as a standard desktop computer, making hardware support for Ghost much simpler.Norton Ghost 2003 Norton Ghost 2003, a consumer edition of Ghost, was released on September 6, 2002. Available as an independent product, Norton Ghost 2003 was also included as a component of Norton SystemWorks 2003 Professional. A simpler, non-corporate version of Ghost, Norton Ghost 2003 does not include the console but has a Windows front-end to script Ghost operations and create a bootable Ghost. The machine still needs to reboot to the virtual partition, but the user does not need to interact with DOS. Symantec deprecated support for Norton Ghost 2003 in early 2006.Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 1.0 (Ghost 8.2).
Symantec Ghost 8.2Released November 15, 2004, Symantec renamed the Enterprise version of Ghost to Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 1.0. This helped clarify the difference between the consumer and business editions of the product. This was further defined in February 2006, with the release of Norton Save And Restore (also known as Norton Backup And Restore), a standalone backup application based on Ghost 10.0.Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 1.1 (Ghost 8.3) Ghost Solution Suite 1.1 is a bundle of an updated version of Ghost, Symantec Client Migration (a user data and settings migration tool) and the former PowerQuest equivalent, DeployCenter (using PQI images). Ghost Solution Suite 1.1 was released on December 2005. It can create an image file that is larger than 2 GB. (In Ghost 8.2 or earlier, such image files are automatically split into two or more segments, so that each segment has a maximum size of 2 GB.) Other new features include more comprehensive manufacturing tools, and the ability to create a 'universal boot disk'.
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Acquisition of PowerQuest At the end of 2003, Symantec acquired its largest competitor in the disk-cloning field. On August 2, 2004, Norton Ghost 9.0 was released as a new consumer version of Ghost, which is based on PowerQuest's version 7, and provides Live imaging of a Windows system. Ghost 9 continues to leverage the PowerQuest file format, meaning it is not backward compatible with previous versions of Ghost. However, a version of Ghost 8.0 is included on the Ghost 9 recovery disk to support existing Ghost customers.Norton Ghost 9.0 (includes Ghost 2003) Ghost 9.0 was released August 2, 2004. It represents a significant shift in the consumer product line from Ghost 2003, in several ways:. It uses a totally different code base, based on the / product via Symantec's acquisition of. It is a Windows program that must be installed on the target system.
Images can be made while Windows is running, rather than only when booted directly into DOS mode. images (containing only changes since the last image) are supported. Requires in order to function fully. The bootable environment on the Ghost 9 CD is only useful for recovery of existing backups.