Using an incremental Ghost image to create drive...how?

[Kwad Guy]

I have been using Norton Ghost 10 to do automated incremental backups of my system. This creates a set of incremental backups that are not standard single Ghost (.GHO) backups.

The other day, I had a catastrophic failure and the hard drive died.

So I got a new hard drive, created some dummy (empty) partitions on it of the appropriate type and fired up the Symantec Recovery CD (with the drive I used for backups attached via USB). Recovery comes up fine, I get to the recovery console fine, but when I choose "I want to restore my PC to a time when it was working" and choose the appropriate backup image, I get "INVALID" next to the location on the drive to which I want to restore the image. (The drive is bigger than the original, so it's not that there's not enough space or anything, and the format of the drive is the same as the original).

So what I did is go into the file explorer mode and used that to copy all the files from the stored image onto the new drive. But doing it in this way is slow as molasses.

Am I missing something? Surely, there must be a simple one click way to creating a NEW drive from the incremental image after a catastrophic failure (i.e. when the old drive is gone).

Thanks

 

[pcgeek11]

Ghost 10 doesn't use GHO files... It make the images *.p2v files and an index files *.p2vi. I think what you are doing wrong is when you boot to the recovery console with the Ghost CD you then choose Advanced Options First then Restore Drive ...

pcgeek11