>I need to access and transfer to Vista some files and folders previously
> backed up with Ghost 10 on XP Home system. Having failed by every other
> means to install XP on my Dell XPS 410, I installed Virtual PC 2007 and
> installed XP. However, I could not get Ghost 10 to run and then to access
> files from the DVD drive. I also tried making a virtual HD and then
> accessing using the Ghost 10 recovery disk, but I could not run a restore
> onto the virtual drive. Nor have I yet been able to get the two systems
> to
> network some place in common onto which I can move files. In short, I am
> stymied and frustrated and surely must be doing something wrong.
>
> Would someone be kind enough to explain to me how to use Ghost 10 and
> Virtual PC to restore a backup into a virtual drive running Vista?
>
> I would be most grateful.
>
> David

> I am not sure what you are actually doing, but what you claim to be
> doing doesn't make sense.
>
> You do not connect VHDs to your network. You connect the VHD to a
> virtual machine which has an OS installed. From within that virtual
> machine OS, you share the files/folders which you want to see from
> another machine on the network. If the networking is set up correctly, you
> will be able to access these files/folders, just as you can see shared
> folders on a "real" machine. The networking software doesn't know or care
> that a machine is virtual.
>

> I'll give it another shot, but I did this and couldn't access one VHD from
> the other. Access was always denied, and even though I connected both
> VHDs
> to my network, and could see them from Vista, I couldn't from within the
> VHDs. I also tried mapping the drives from each other, but MS would not
> let
> me get below computer name level. Virtual PC -does- network, doesn't it?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> David
>

>No success so far.
>
>I have set up two virtual drives, XP1 and XP2, both of which have a folder
>named "work1" that contains the backup files. I have shared both virtual
>drives as well as both "work1" folders. I have also shared the Vista drive
>c:.
>
>I can see all four XP items in My Network Places while in either virtual
>drive, and am able to see the Vista drive now that I have established a
>password for that drive (but I could not until I did, which probably
>explains most the problems I have been having).
>
>However, when I run Ghost 10 and try to recover the files, the only
>destination points it shows are the same virtual drive on which Ghost is
>running (to which recovery is barred), and a smidgen of unallocated space on
>the physical drive. I suppose I could make more space unallocated, but then
>it would not be recovering the backup into a virtual drive but into Vista
>space, would it not?
>
>At this point, I am again stymied. My problem is with Symantec, I suppose,
>not Virtual PC. I guess I will have to wait for them to come out with a
>Vista-compatible version and hope it will recover Gh10 files.
>
>Any additional suggestions are welcome.
>
>Thank you again.
>
>David

> No success so far.
>
> I have set up two virtual drives, XP1 and XP2, both of which have a folder
> named "work1" that contains the backup files. I have shared both virtual
> drives as well as both "work1" folders. I have also shared the Vista
> drive c:.
>
> I can see all four XP items in My Network Places while in either virtual
> drive, and am able to see the Vista drive now that I have established a
> password for that drive (but I could not until I did, which probably
> explains most the problems I have been having).
>
> However, when I run Ghost 10 and try to recover the files, the only
> destination points it shows are the same virtual drive on which Ghost is
> running (to which recovery is barred), and a smidgen of unallocated space
> on the physical drive. I suppose I could make more space unallocated, but
> then it would not be recovering the backup into a virtual drive but into
> Vista space, would it not?
>
> At this point, I am again stymied. My problem is with Symantec, I
> suppose, not Virtual PC. I guess I will have to wait for them to come out
> with a Vista-compatible version and hope it will recover Gh10 files.
>
> Any additional suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thank you again.
>
> David

> Look under the Settings for this virtual machine and use the option « Hard
> Disk 2 » and/or « Hard Disk 3 ». For this to perform, the virtual machine
> must be shut down, not running or in a saved state.
>
> Theoritically, using either the Shared Folders or a Network drive could
> work with Ghost, but this require that 1) the VPC Additions are up and
> running when Ghost is running for the Shared Folders to work or 2) that
> the network is setup when Ghost is running for a Network drive to be
> accessible.
>
> If I remember correctly, Ghost will perform the restoration after a
> rebooting, which means that neither the VPC Additions or the Network will
> be up and running correctly when Ghost will try the restoration without
> some change to the standard setup of Ghost.
>
> However, using the « Hard Disk 2 » or « Hard Disk 3 » option doesn't have
> this limitation for Ghost as they become standard parts of the
> (virtualized) hardware.
>

>I forgot to mention that another thing you have to check is the ACPI option
>(for the energy control) in the target BIOS, as it must have same the same
>option as in the original physical system. Of course, this is necessary
>only if you want to boot from the restored image.
>
> At least, in your case, you have been able to restore some of the files
> from the C:\ drive but I don't understand your problem with the D:\ drive.
> Did you mean that you forgot to include it in your original backup or that
> you cannot restore it?
>
> --
> Sylvain Lafontaine, ing.
> MVP - Technologies Virtual-PC
> E-mail: sylvain aei ca (fill the blanks, no spam please)
>
>
> "David Salmon" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:OmqdM$(email address - cut out)...
>>I did as Sylvain Lafontaine suggested, and, lo and behold, the two XP
>>systems were connected via the network.
>>
>> I then started Ghost in XP2 and Ghost could see XP1 as a valid
>> destination for recovering the backup files. I did so.
>>
>> However, at the very end, Ghost said it could not finish. Error:
>> EC8F178F, cannot copy data from the recovery point to the destination;
>> the requested FRS entry is unused (free, 0). Nonetheless, the XP1 folder
>> did hold a new, much larger .vhd file.
>>
>> I started XP1, but it gave me the black MS screen that says Windows
>> failed to close properly, offering the restart in safe mode and start
>> normally options. When I said to start normally, I got a blank screen.
>> In Vista's Windows Task Manager, something was using the CPU and memory
>> at 50-60 percent rates, but after 10 minutes, nothing had happened, so I
>> reset. In each of the safe modes, the startup would hang at mup.sys. I
>> tried rebooting from the XP install disk and starting Repair, but after
>> establishing that I wanted to repair installation 1, it refused to accept
>> any administrator password. The odd thing is that I never had an
>> administrator password, but just kept Enter/blank. It rejected that and
>> also the two other faint possibilities I tried. In short, Ghost
>> recovered the backed up files, apparently, but the file evidently is
>> corrupt in some way. ?
>>
>> I then tried Steve Jain's suggestion that I use Ghost to extract selected
>> files from the backup, rather than do a complete computer recovery. This
>> also worked. I copied files from the backup to XP2, and then from XP2 to
>> Vista. This suggests the backup file is not corrupted after all.
>>
>> But, no silver lining without a cloud, I discovered my backup of my old
>> c: drive did not include a backup of the old d: drive, as it should have.
>> Since I kept the more important data files on d: in case c: fouled up (as
>> it did while downloading and installing the latest XP updates a few weeks
>> ago), I may have lost those. :-( I think the contents of the old d:
>> drive is still extant on the drive, so I will have to rig it to
>> communicate with Vista and see. (I have a SATA machine now, and it was
>> IDE.) Tomorrow's task.
>>
>> Thanks again. I may attempt another full recovery of the backup and see
>> if a new file removes the recovery problem.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>> "Sylvain Lafontaine" <sylvain aei ca (fill the blanks, no spam please)>
>> wrote in message news:(email address - cut out)...
>>> Look under the Settings for this virtual machine and use the option «
>>> Hard Disk 2 » and/or « Hard Disk 3 ». For this to perform, the virtual
>>> machine must be shut down, not running or in a saved state.
>>>
>>> Theoritically, using either the Shared Folders or a Network drive could
>>> work with Ghost, but this require that 1) the VPC Additions are up and
>>> running when Ghost is running for the Shared Folders to work or 2) that
>>> the network is setup when Ghost is running for a Network drive to be
>>> accessible.
>>>
>>> If I remember correctly, Ghost will perform the restoration after a
>>> rebooting, which means that neither the VPC Additions or the Network
>>> will be up and running correctly when Ghost will try the restoration
>>> without some change to the standard setup of Ghost.
>>>
>>> However, using the « Hard Disk 2 » or « Hard Disk 3 » option doesn't
>>> have this limitation for Ghost as they become standard parts of the
>>> (virtualized) hardware.
>>>
>>
>
>

>I did as Sylvain Lafontaine suggested, and, lo and behold, the two XP
>systems were connected via the network.
>
> I then started Ghost in XP2 and Ghost could see XP1 as a valid destination
> for recovering the backup files. I did so.
>
> However, at the very end, Ghost said it could not finish. Error:
> EC8F178F, cannot copy data from the recovery point to the destination; the
> requested FRS entry is unused (free, 0). Nonetheless, the XP1 folder did
> hold a new, much larger .vhd file.
>
> I started XP1, but it gave me the black MS screen that says Windows failed
> to close properly, offering the restart in safe mode and start normally
> options. When I said to start normally, I got a blank screen. In Vista's
> Windows Task Manager, something was using the CPU and memory at 50-60
> percent rates, but after 10 minutes, nothing had happened, so I reset. In
> each of the safe modes, the startup would hang at mup.sys. I tried
> rebooting from the XP install disk and starting Repair, but after
> establishing that I wanted to repair installation 1, it refused to accept
> any administrator password. The odd thing is that I never had an
> administrator password, but just kept Enter/blank. It rejected that and
> also the two other faint possibilities I tried. In short, Ghost recovered
> the backed up files, apparently, but the file evidently is corrupt in some
> way. ?
>
> I then tried Steve Jain's suggestion that I use Ghost to extract selected
> files from the backup, rather than do a complete computer recovery. This
> also worked. I copied files from the backup to XP2, and then from XP2 to
> Vista. This suggests the backup file is not corrupted after all.
>
> But, no silver lining without a cloud, I discovered my backup of my old c:
> drive did not include a backup of the old d: drive, as it should have.
> Since I kept the more important data files on d: in case c: fouled up (as
> it did while downloading and installing the latest XP updates a few weeks
> ago), I may have lost those. :-( I think the contents of the old d:
> drive is still extant on the drive, so I will have to rig it to
> communicate with Vista and see. (I have a SATA machine now, and it was
> IDE.) Tomorrow's task.
>
> Thanks again. I may attempt another full recovery of the backup and see
> if a new file removes the recovery problem.
>
> David
>
>
>
> "Sylvain Lafontaine" <sylvain aei ca (fill the blanks, no spam please)>
> wrote in message news:(email address - cut out)...
>> Look under the Settings for this virtual machine and use the option «
>> Hard Disk 2 » and/or « Hard Disk 3 ». For this to perform, the virtual
>> machine must be shut down, not running or in a saved state.
>>
>> Theoritically, using either the Shared Folders or a Network drive could
>> work with Ghost, but this require that 1) the VPC Additions are up and
>> running when Ghost is running for the Shared Folders to work or 2) that
>> the network is setup when Ghost is running for a Network drive to be
>> accessible.
>>
>> If I remember correctly, Ghost will perform the restoration after a
>> rebooting, which means that neither the VPC Additions or the Network will
>> be up and running correctly when Ghost will try the restoration without
>> some change to the standard setup of Ghost.
>>
>> However, using the « Hard Disk 2 » or « Hard Disk 3 » option doesn't have
>> this limitation for Ghost as they become standard parts of the
>> (virtualized) hardware.
>>
>

>I did as Sylvain Lafontaine suggested, and, lo and behold, the two XP
>systems were connected via the network.
>
> I then started Ghost in XP2 and Ghost could see XP1 as a valid destination
> for recovering the backup files. I did so.
>
> However, at the very end, Ghost said it could not finish. Error:
> EC8F178F, cannot copy data from the recovery point to the destination; the
> requested FRS entry is unused (free, 0). Nonetheless, the XP1 folder did
> hold a new, much larger .vhd file.
>
> I started XP1, but it gave me the black MS screen that says Windows failed
> to close properly, offering the restart in safe mode and start normally
> options. When I said to start normally, I got a blank screen. In Vista's
> Windows Task Manager, something was using the CPU and memory at 50-60
> percent rates, but after 10 minutes, nothing had happened, so I reset. In
> each of the safe modes, the startup would hang at mup.sys. I tried
> rebooting from the XP install disk and starting Repair, but after
> establishing that I wanted to repair installation 1, it refused to accept
> any administrator password. The odd thing is that I never had an
> administrator password, but just kept Enter/blank. It rejected that and
> also the two other faint possibilities I tried. In short, Ghost recovered
> the backed up files, apparently, but the file evidently is corrupt in some
> way. ?
>
> I then tried Steve Jain's suggestion that I use Ghost to extract selected
> files from the backup, rather than do a complete computer recovery. This
> also worked. I copied files from the backup to XP2, and then from XP2 to
> Vista. This suggests the backup file is not corrupted after all.
>
> But, no silver lining without a cloud, I discovered my backup of my old c:
> drive did not include a backup of the old d: drive, as it should have.
> Since I kept the more important data files on d: in case c: fouled up (as
> it did while downloading and installing the latest XP updates a few weeks
> ago), I may have lost those. :-( I think the contents of the old d:
> drive is still extant on the drive, so I will have to rig it to
> communicate with Vista and see. (I have a SATA machine now, and it was
> IDE.) Tomorrow's task.
>
> Thanks again. I may attempt another full recovery of the backup and see
> if a new file removes the recovery problem.
>
> David
>
>
>
> "Sylvain Lafontaine" <sylvain aei ca (fill the blanks, no spam please)>
> wrote in message news:(email address - cut out)...
>> Look under the Settings for this virtual machine and use the option «
>> Hard Disk 2 » and/or « Hard Disk 3 ». For this to perform, the virtual
>> machine must be shut down, not running or in a saved state.
>>
>> Theoritically, using either the Shared Folders or a Network drive could
>> work with Ghost, but this require that 1) the VPC Additions are up and
>> running when Ghost is running for the Shared Folders to work or 2) that
>> the network is setup when Ghost is running for a Network drive to be
>> accessible.
>>
>> If I remember correctly, Ghost will perform the restoration after a
>> rebooting, which means that neither the VPC Additions or the Network will
>> be up and running correctly when Ghost will try the restoration without
>> some change to the standard setup of Ghost.
>>
>> However, using the « Hard Disk 2 » or « Hard Disk 3 » option doesn't have
>> this limitation for Ghost as they become standard parts of the
>> (virtualized) hardware.
>>
>

>I need to access and transfer to Vista some files and folders previously
>backed up with Ghost 10 on XP Home system. Having failed by every other
>means to install XP on my Dell XPS 410, I installed Virtual PC 2007 and
>installed XP. However, I could not get Ghost 10 to run and then to access
>files from the DVD drive. I also tried making a virtual HD and then
>accessing using the Ghost 10 recovery disk, but I could not run a restore
>onto the virtual drive. Nor have I yet been able to get the two systems to
>network some place in common onto which I can move files. In short, I am
>stymied and frustrated and surely must be doing something wrong.
>
>Would someone be kind enough to explain to me how to use Ghost 10 and
>Virtual PC to restore a backup into a virtual drive running Vista?

> - Ghost10 comes with Ghost2003.
> Do this:
> 1) Create a Ghost2003 boot disk image (floppy or CD). It will contain
> a PC-DOS operating system plus Ghost2003.

> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:47:21 -0700, "David Salmon"
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
>>I'd like to give this a try, but I don't know how to find Ghost 3 in Ghost
>>10.
>
> That is not what I said. When you buy Ghost10 you also get a CD for
> Ghost 2003 (not Ghost 3!) in the same box.
> So use the Ghost 2003 CD to install Ghost 2003, then create the ghost
> boot disk from that. Afterwards you can uninstall Ghost 2003 if you
> like and just keep the boot disk.
>
>
>
> Bo Berglund
> bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

>I'd like to give this a try, but I don't know how to find Ghost 3 in Ghost
>10.