Ghost Solution Suite

I own a Samsung Laptop & Seagate 1TB USB External Hard Disk Drive.

Samsung 300E7A, Intel® Core™ i5-2450M Dual Core Processor, 17.3"
HD+ Screen, Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit, 4GB DDR3 RAM,
500GB HDD, DVD Rewriter, Integrated Graphics, Webcam, HDMI,
Bluetooth 3, NP300E7A-A05UK

I’m running windows 7 home premium 64bit version of windows.

I created a custom recovery dvd disk in Norton ghost 15.0

I’ve backed up my (C:\) hard disk 54.5GB & a hidden system drive (*:\) 24.5MB using the windows Ghost program.

The Norton Ghost image backup was 31.3 GB in size.

I loaded the disk into my dvd drive and restarted my computer.

Everything loaded fine and I could see my Norton image files.

I exited the ghost restore program without running any of the restore backups.

I restarted my laptop, it would not start-up, after resetting the laptop I was prompted  to run a windows recovery program.

The recovery software repaired my boot-up configuration?

I’ve repeated the above operation three times, each time I have had to run the Microsoft windows recovery software to repair my windows start-up.

• How do I prevent the damage to my windows start-up files when I use a Custom Norton Ghost Recovery DVD disk?

Why are my Microsoft windows image backups larger than the Norton image file backups?

Windows image backup: 38.8 GB (41,754,641,920 bytes)

Norton image backup: 31.3 GB (33,685,267,356 bytes)

I think you have posted in wrong forum post. This forum is for Symantec Backup Exec product.

Thanks,

-Sush...

There is a link at the top of this forum to the Norton community where the retail product is supported. This forum supports the corporate version of Ghost which is based on different technology.

I cannot comment on why the Norton product appears to be trashing your machine when you boot the recovery DVD; the Norton community should be able to help you with that.

The usual reason for images to differ in size is down to what is actually backed up and what is excluded.

For example, the swap file, which is typically 1.5 x your installed RAM (ie 6Gb for your system), does not need to be backed up as it is automatically recreated if missing. That would account for most of the difference, but there are other exclusions that intelligent backup software can apply to reduce the image size by omitting pointless content.