Norton Ghost And X64: The Symantec Page Wont Even Load
Apr 8, 2008
I have Vista x64 with 8GB DDR 2 ram, 2x8800GTX cards, 4 hard drives (2x500gb, 1x150gb and 1 raptor 32gb OS). I back up daily, and yesterday encountered a problem requiring a restore. Since System Restore is useless as it didnt save my "create a restore point" I decided to go ahead with my daily Ghost backup (v12.0 used). Hell broke loose. Ghost's always worked fine under XP but Im writing this article for any suggestions on X64 (if its even the problem). You see, when booting from the Ghost CD, what usually happens are one of 2 things:
1) The Symantec page wont even load, the PC will give a BSOD error message until I remove all but 2GB RAM, then Symantec loads etc
2) When RAM removed, Symantec loads, finds the restore point, restores the drive. Then with around 20 seconds to go I get a BSOD (same one as before). Try booting the PC and for a split second you get the BSOD and it restarts.
If you try loading the CD again, you get the BSOD. The only way to get around the BSOD (and to start the whole process again) is to PHYSICALLY remove the hard drive you reinstalled on, format it with a different computer, plug it back in and start over. This was mental! I restored onto a (newly purchased) Raptor drive. No idea what the problem is. Does anyone recommend any new software to backup a whole PC (quickly) and possibly retore itself within Windows, or ways around the problems above?
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Nov 30, 2009
I am looking for a good easy to use backup program. I now have Norton Ghost and it is hard to use.
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Jun 5, 2008
This note it intended to assist those who wish to use either of the subject programs in the same fashion I do. I have extensive experience with Acronis version 10, initial release and build 9042 and version 11 build 8035. Also experienced with Norton Ghost version 10 and version 12. Both products are good. I choose not to use the Acronis products because executing scheduled backup tasks with validation for 4 systems would take about 9 hours and 20 minutes using Acronis TrueImage whereas the same tasks using Norton Ghost would take about 2 hours and 40 minutes.
I back up four systems to an external drive on a regular basis. Each backup is a full image of a system. Each backup is validated. Each system backs up to a different directory on an external drive. I keep 6 backups for each system. All backups are scheduled overnight on the same night. The drive is attached locally to a Vista system and 3 XP systems back up to it's directory via a LAN. The back up time for the 4 systems are about 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 20 minutes and 30 minutes. Validating the backups take roughly the same time as does the backup. These times are about the same for all the products.
The time difference (9 hrs 20 min vs 2 hrs 40 min) is due to what I consider a flaw in the scheduled validation process of the Acronis products. When executing a scheduled backup with validation, the Acronis products validate every backup on the backup location. The first backup of 10 minutes and 6 validations of 10 minutes each takes about 1 hr 10 min. The second backup of 20 minutes and 6 validations takes about 2 hrs and 20 min. The same time needed for the third backup. The 4th backup of 30 min and 6 validations takes about 3 hrs 30 min. A total of about 9 hrs 20 mins.
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Apr 16, 2009
I have Norton Ghost 14 and Vista 64 Ultimate. I don't see any reason to use Ghost over Windows Backup. Both take about 2 hours to backup my hard drive.
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Nov 27, 2008
As I bought the product today and when I put the disk in the drive and ran the installer, it all seemed to go well and I then rebooted the computer with the disk still in the drive. On the reboot the computer hung up and stayed on a Black screen, I then did a Reset of my computer and when it rebooted I got a Blue screen with an error message - System_Service_Exception. The computer rebooted and I removed the disk, and then I got another Blue screen about Bad_Pool_Header.
Finally I had to restart my computer with my Vista disk in place, so that I could un-install Norton Ghost 14. I managed to do this and I then did a System Restore to get my computer back to a decent state so I could use it. I have had a search around on the Symantec website, and I cannot find anything to help me with this problem. And how I can install Norton Ghost 14 on my computer, and if I have to disable anything for the installation?
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Apr 16, 2008
I have had problems connecting to the internet using Vista ultimate, so I did a clean install with SP1 and installed norton ghost V12 so I could make a backup of the clean install , I can connect to my ISP but cannot go any further, there is no animation of the internet icon in the taskbar even though it is turned (animation) on , the diagnostic link could not give any answers, and when the internet icon in the taskbar is right clicked and open the network settings (bottom of the list) it shows My ISP to my Computer OK but from my computer to the internet is a large X which means I cannot get out to the web..
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Oct 16, 2009
I just got a new HP Vista Home Premium computer. My old XP Media Center computer with all my programs and files - I don't have that many pictures and no movies etc. - held about 25GB of stuff (both Defraggler and Norton Ghost indicated that 25GB was the size of the entire contents of the C: drive).
My Vista Home Premium computer, with all my programs and applications transferred over from the XP machine, has drive contents of a whopping 100GB(!) according to Defraggler. However, the Norton Ghost backup file of the C: drive is under 25GB in size. Both the XP and the Vista computer are on NTFS file systems. What can be bloating up this new Vista machine? I've looked around with Power Desk Pro 7 and don't see much. DeCrapifier doesn't identify anything obvious.
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Nov 23, 2009
On my laptop I am using Vista Home Premium 64 and when I open the Window Update application from control panel or start the window opens blank white with This page cannot load.
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Mar 18, 2009
my windows vista home will not load to the login page. it all started when my computer would not shut down. as it wouldnt i pressed the off button left it for a couple of mins and turned it back on again. it came up saying that there was a problem and i selected to have it automatically fix the problem. it said it could take a few times for it to work. on the second try it said it could not fix the problem and gave option send message to windows.....
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Oct 28, 2009
Several days ago there was a large number of updates available to download. I allowed the system to update all of them. Three, KB974234, KB972581 and KB973709 it was shown on the update history page as failing to download. Reading as to a possible solution, I tried to load them manually, saving those files to my desktop, right clicking on each, to run as an administrator. After each loaded I got a message telling me they were already installed on my system. My question is why does the "failure" notice remain on my history page and how can I delete those three file entries?
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Oct 4, 2009
Vista Home Basic SP2. When I try to run Windows update all I get is a blank page that says "The page failed to load". I've looked all around and have found a lot of people with the same or a similar problem but no firm solutions. I haven't used it in maybe a week and it's worked fine up till now. There have been no real changes since I used it last. Does anyone have a clue?
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Dec 16, 2007
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some sites i have no trouble accessing: google, cnn, Internet, ytmnd (homepage only), yahoo (homepage only), and fortunately, this forum. there seems to be no rhyme nor reason why a select few pages are favored.......
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Oct 13, 2008
when going to the windows update window,i get a white blank page and it says "the page failed to load"i did restart, same issue.
what is it all about?
and another thing, i don't have a Floppy drive in my computer however a Floppy A: drive is present in "Computer" how can i remove it from the list?
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Oct 12, 2009
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Jun 15, 2009
Disabling SYmantec Antivirus on my system also disabled Network!
Weird.
I found a workaround, too lon gto epxlain, but there's just another reason your network might not recognized the World, even though enabled.Some kind of "threatfire" Symnantec pre-filter doesn't like to be disabled.
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Oct 17, 2009
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Feb 9, 2009
with Vista Home Premium 64bit. when I tryed to install "Symantec Endpoint Protection v11.0.4000", it says, thereīs a pending installation, which needs a reboot...but the problem is..I donīt even have a pending installation which needs a reboot. I tryed with rebooting, several times in a row, but with no success.
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May 15, 2010
I have a Symantec Antivirus CD. However, the computer I want to install the antivirus on has a non-working disc drive, so the CD is useless for it, and I was going to put the disc in another computer disc drive, then transfer its contents to a USB flash drive, then use the USB on the computer I want to have the antivirus program. However, it's disc drive nor its USB ports work.
So what I thought was, using the disc on another computer, and attaching the disc contents in an email, or on megaupload. However, I can't attach folders. I have to attach files, not folders, like a .exe file for instance. So I was only able to send to myself, online, the .exe installation file of the Symantec Antivirus program I want to install on the computer. Is the .exe installation file all I need for the program?
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Mar 7, 2010
I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium (SP2) (32-bit) on a Toshiba Satellite A215. I'm trying to install Symantec Endpoint Protection (32-bit) that I downloaded from the ACERT website for home use. (Unmanaged, typical install). For some reason, it gets to: Removing System Registry Values in the install process, then says, "Rolling back action," and cancels the install. It says, "The wizard was interrupted before Symantec Endpoint Protection could be completely installed. Your system has not been modified. To complete
installation at another time, please run setup again." I have restarted and tried again, same thing.
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Mar 19, 2009
I just recently purchased this laptop HP Pavilion and I have the corporate Symantec Antivirus 10.2. The laptop is the x64 but will the Antivirus work on a x64 machine?
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Mar 23, 2009
I have a machine with Vista 64-bit ultimate edition. I'm running raid 1+0, and started having a drive fail. Instead of just replacing that single drive, I figured I'd use this time to upgrade to larger drives.
I did a ghost image of all 4 partitions, swapped the drives out, rebooted with the ghost boot cd, and reloaded. It copied all the data to all partitions, but it won't boot.
I did have a boot helper installed - I think it may be EasyBCD - to help go between windows XP pro and Vista.
Anyway, when Ghost finished and I rebooted, I get the No OS found. I was thinking the boot partition may be messed up, but I'm not sure how to fix this.
I don't think I want to try a Vista repair from the boot DVD, but maybe that is what I have to do.
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Mar 6, 2009
I'm new to this forum so please be gentle if I made a mistake in posting this here or whatever. :-) I am a intern on a School for my education and currently I'm looking into Imaging. Yesterday I used Symantec Ghost to image a XP machine. I was wondering if this would also be possible with Vista. Using something like a bootable Vista usb drive or cd or something?
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Sep 13, 2008
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Mar 4, 2009
I am wondering if you need to re-install Windows after a hard drive failure before you use a "ghost" image. I used Macrium Reflect to create it.
http://www.macrium.com/blog/2008/03/...umReflect.aspx
Do you install Windows on the new drive or just install the "ghost" image of the drive before it failed?
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