Reading old Ghost backups with Windows7.

[Peter Jason]

I found some old DVDs from 2006 with some Ghost
backups (version unknown).

These have the file names:
CDR0001, CDR00002.....CDR0008 etc

I can't get Ghost15 or Ghost12 to recognize them,
nor can an old Ghost reader (GHOST Explorer 2003)
read them. Is there any way to check out these
files?
Peter

 

[charlie]

I found some old DVDs from 2006 with some Ghost
backups (version unknown).

These have the file names:
CDR0001, CDR00002.....CDR0008 etc

I can't get Ghost15 or Ghost12 to recognize them,
nor can an old Ghost reader (GHOST Explorer 2003)
read them. Is there any way to check out these
files?
Peter

My past experience with Ghost was that you might not be able to read
them with the version/copy that made them.

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

My past experience with Ghost was that you might not be able to read
them with the version/copy that made them.

My experience is just the opposite - Symantec Ghost can read any file
produced with the same or earlier versions. (I don't use Norton Ghost
so can't comment on that produce, which is *very* different than
Symantec Ghost.)

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

I found some old DVDs from 2006 with some Ghost
backups (version unknown).

These have the file names:
CDR0001, CDR00002.....CDR0008 etc

I can't get Ghost15 or Ghost12 to recognize them,
nor can an old Ghost reader (GHOST Explorer 2003)
read them. Is there any way to check out these
files?
Peter

I suspect you need a Ghost Explorer that is newer than the 2003
version. What specific error message are you getting?

BTW, you might get better help in the Symantec forums, a quick Google
search turned up a number of folks getting help with issues similar to
yours.

--
Zaphod

"So [Trillian], two heads is what does it for a girl?"
"...Anything else [Zaphod]'s got two of?"
- Arthur Dent

 

[Joe Morris]

I found some old DVDs from 2006 with some Ghost
backups (version unknown).

These have the file names:
CDR0001, CDR00002.....CDR0008 etc

I can't get Ghost15 or Ghost12 to recognize them,
nor can an old Ghost reader (GHOST Explorer 2003)
read them. Is there any way to check out these
files?

Filenames such as the ones you list tell me that the disks were created
directly by the Ghost program (i.e., Ghost itself wrote to the optical disk
rather than to a hard disk where they were later written to the optical disk
by a mastering program such as Roxio).

When I use Ghost to create new distribution files I make a point to create
the Ghost files on disk and then copy them to online storage; it may be that
for some reason your files are readable only by the Ghost program itself
(assuming that the 9-year-old media are still readable). Since I never use
the feature I can't say if the self-written files are intended to be read by
Ghost Explorer, and especially the Norton version of that program.

Joe