Ghost 11.x.x windows 7 to windows XP

[Migration User]

Hi folks,

I am have small issue , i am using ghost 11.5 version for creating the images for windows 7 , so when i am creating and dumping to some other mahcine than it's fine but when i am downgrading to windows XP then getting wired error messages like MBR boot manager corrupt OR NTDLR missing ... so is there any way to fix that.

Thanks

[Migration User]

What do you mean you downgrading to Windows XP? There is no downgrading term in cloning - what you captured is what you restore. If you captured XP you restore XP, if you captured Win7 you restore Win7. Can you please explain>

[Migration User]

Thanks for your reply, i mean to say like i cloned one mahcine with windows 7 or windows vista and now i want same mahcine with XP , so while doing the i am following the below:

1. Reboot the same mahcine with BOOT from CD option ( Ghost 11.0 CD )
2. Symantec Ghost 11.0 info will dispaly then click ok and got ot next.
3. Go to LOCAL  >>  PARTITION  >> FROM IMAGE
4. Select the image which is on the D Drive of the same mahcine. like Win XP Sp3 image.
5. Once the image got installed it gives me message that " Clone completed Successful" After rebooting getting the below:-

Windows Boot Manager

Choose an operating System to start pr press TAB to select a tool

Ø Earlier version of Windows

Ø Windows Vista ™ ultimate (recovered)

While pressing the ENTER button it's going to below :-

Windows Boot Manger

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.

1.       Insert you windows installation disc.

2.       Choose you language setting and click netx.

3.       Click” repair you computer”

If you do not have disc, contact your system administrator or computer

File :\ntldr

Status 0X000000e

Info the selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.

[Migration User]

I see. This is correct error. It happens because you are restoring a single partition from an image. When you are restoring a single partition ghost does not know whether it is a good idea to go and make this partition bootable and active because after all you are restoring a single partition out of many. If you want ghost to automatically fix up boot order then you need to restore an entire image to the disk, eg. local->disk->from image.

Alternatively in a single partition disk you may want to run following command post cloning: gdisk 1 /act /p:1. This will mark first partition as active. This quite likely is enough to make it boot.

As a rule of thumb alwasy remember that when ghost restores disk it will do everything for you including all system areas patchups, otherwise it does not.