Norton Ghost problem?

Hi,

I was attempting to use Norton Ghost to restore a previous image of my computer for the first time ever.

The Ghost image that I want to restore is from March 14, 2004. When I put the restore image boot disc into the floppy drive and restart my computer I get the PC Dos screen and then the following appears:

This driver is provided by Oak Technology, Inc..
OTI-91X ATAPI CD-ROM device driver, Rev D91XV352
(C)Copyright Oak Technology Inc. 1987-1997
Device Name : CD1
Transfer Mode : Programmed I/O
Number of drives : 2


AIC-6260/6360/6370 ASPI Manager for DOS
Version 3.68
Copyright 1990-1997 Adaptec, Inc.

Host adapter at port address 340 failed diagnostics.
Host adapter at port address 140 failed diagnostics.
ASPI2DOS.SYS Installation Failed
AIC-78XX/AIC-75XX ASPI Manager for DOS
Version 1.36
Copyright 1994-1999 Adaptec, Inc.

Unable to find any AIC-78XX/AIC-75XX
ASPI8DOS.SYS Installation Failed

AHA-1540/1542/1640 ASPI Manager for DOS
Version 3.36
Copyright 1989-1998 Adaptec, Inc.

ASPI4DOS.SYS Installation Failed

ASPI CD-ROM Driver for DOS
Version 4.01
Copyright 1990-1996 Adaptec, Inc.

ERROR: Adaptec ASPI Device Driver not available
CD-ROM driver NOT LOADED: no valid Adaptec host adapter
Microsoft (R) Mouse Driver Version 8.20
Device driver not found: 'CD2'.
Device driver not found: 'CD3'.
MSCDEX Version 2.25
Copyright (C) IBM Corp. 1986-1994. All rights reserved.
Drive D: = Driver CD1 unit 0
Drive E: = Driver CD1 unit 1
Loading...

Next, the Norton Ghost appears as if it would work, but I am afraid to go ahead because the above errors cause me to suspect that when I attempt to restore the image my CD-ROM drive might not work, in which case I would be screwed.

Are the errors above normal? Would I be able to restore an image? BTW, I viewed the restore image flash tutorial several times, and I followed the instructions exactly when creating the restore image boot disc.

I need advice from experienced Ghosters.

Thank You,
Mowergun

P.S. Just after I posted this question it occured to me that my adaptec easy cd creater version is newer than my ghost version. Could this be the problem? Am I screwed?

That's very normal -- when Ghost is creating the CD it has no way to know what sort of hardware will be installed in the machine, so it tries to load every driver it can. Unless you have like three different types of SCSI card installed, you'll get errors. The important bit is:

Quote:

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MSCDEX Version 2.25
Copyright (C) IBM Corp. 1986-1994. All rights reserved.
Drive D: = Driver CD1 unit 0
Drive E: = Driver CD1 unit 1

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That means it's able to see your CD drives and you'll be able to restore the image. Once the image is restored, hardware detection is entirely up to Windows, and has nothing to do with the Ghost boot CD.

Thank you Tuttle, I may now muster some courage and go for it.

Yep, just to confirm what Tuttle said, those errors are quite normal, and nothing to worry about.

If you do have any problems, boot up with a Win98 or ME Startup floppy, then at the A:> prompt put the Ghost floppy in, change to the Ghost directory (cd ghost), and type "ghostpe.exe". Just another way of getting into Ghost without any error messages.

Thanks for the info SuperSparks, I will print it out just in case.