Norton 14.0 ghost megaupload

My experience with both Norton Ghost 14 and Norton support on my new Windows Vista 64 bit laptop has been terrible. The Live Update installation for this product is broken.

Norton has not shown an interest in acknowledging the problem or addressing it. The following solution has worked for me twice after two Ghost 14 LiveUpdate failures like yours a few months ago and a couple of weeks ago.

I have Vista Ultimate bit. Maybe someone with Norton will pick up on this and add it to their Knowledge base. There is one caveat with the recent LiveUpdate a couple of weeks ago.

You may not be able to backup your c: drive on DVD. I just noticed this tonight and will revert to my previous c: drive backup before the recent LiveUpdate. I assume the download version is the same basic program as mine. Symantec should give you the option to buy a CD with the download version as this program is useless for disaster recovery of your hard drive without it.

You must have the CD to boot into the "recovery environment" as Norton calls it. Short of that, I'd try uninstalling what you have and reinstalling it. Then try LiveUpdate again. The download includes a Recovery Disk. It is my understanding that this CD will contain only the software necessary for disaster recovery via a "backup" created by Norton Ghost; not the full Ghost application on an "installation" CD.

I will test your solution using the SRD. I have uninstalled and reinstalled many times with various suggestions to fix it, and none worked. The installation of the update is flat out broken, and needs to be fixed. Does anyone from Symantec or Norton read these posts?

Is there any mechanism to get a problem report to Norton without wasting more time with the chat support that basically just goes through a script to uninstall and reinstall the product? I've never dealt with a software company that is so difficult to report a problem to, and get a resolution.

It should be simple to fix this problem, as it is easily reproduced. I lookedat the liveupdate logs, see below, it looks like as UOgrad is on to something, there is a file missing. EXE -q -r3. Update for Updates takes product from update 0 to Server name - liveupdate. LiveUpdate aborted the update install. LiveUpdate found 1 updates available, of which 0 were installed and 1 failed to install. The LiveUpdate session exited with a return code of , LiveUpdate downloaded all of the updates you requested, but was unable to install any of them.

All should be good now. I did go to my control panel, "Symantec liveupdate" and turned on verbose, enhanced something, and increased my cache. I don't think this mattered While I appreciate the suggestions, I agree with MikeAdmin. I don't care to waste any more time installing and uninstalling an obviously defective product. I don't really know what the update will do to the product, and it seems to work fine without it.

I just have to be careful not to run LiveUpdate, as it will break the product and require a manual re-install. Thanks for the excellent suggestions from the forum. I will try the lastest suggestions the next time Norton Ghost breaks. I get tired up the uninstall and reinstall, since it loses all recovery point history the files are still there, but Ghost doesn't have them cataloged any longer.

When i finally installed sp4, all my optical drives disappeared. Thanks RottenMutt, but after updating Gear with this driver, the Backup to DVD still fails with the same error message as before, namely:. I assume this is the part of my initial feedback you were referring to. Wow, I had alot of problems with updating Ghost Pretty shoddy software, considering I am using the latest operating sytem, Vista x Anyway, hopefully this will save some pain for other users.

I did find that leaving the Ghost CD in the drive helped, although I also ran Liveupdate as administrator. However, I also suffered from the disappearing optical drive syndrome. Apparently the Gear driver that Norton uses must have been cheap!! I don't run backups to optical media, so I followed these instructions to remove the vile, incompatible optical drive driver. I had no luck simply installing it over the Ghost update.

Possibly the removal outlined above is necessary first? Anyway, I'll be sure to create an image with Ghost first now that I have my BD drive back before daring to mess with the Gear driver.

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Had the exact same problem as you. Tried several times. BTW people need to be patient when working with Symantics product installs. Even on my fast computer can pass with no obvious progress. Through several versions of Ghost. In the past, I've had to use two removal tools AND do a registry edit.

God help you if you had Systemworks to rip out of your system I think they've finally dertermined they miserable failed with that utility.

Does anyone know how to submit this continuing problem to Symantec and get the defect acknowledged and repaired? Unlike other vendors such as HP, I'm unable to find a mechanism to submit a problem report. I've tried the online chat, but the technician dropped the case as soon as he uninstalled Norton and rebooted, without ever submitting a problem.

I'm not willing to go through this waste of time again it took 60 minutes of waiting in a queue, and the 30 minutes to remove Norton and reboot, then another 90 minutes to reinstall Ghost without the update and Norton plus several intermediate reboots required by the installation.

As ougrad mentions in later messages, this is a known problem with a known solution. I started a thread on this back in August regarding an earlier update to Ghost I ran into the same problem again this evening when trying to upgrade to I am as frustrated as you regarding this issue, and wish that Symantec would fix the problem.

It is pretty clear from the Windows logs that the update fails when it can't find a source for the product. Having had this problem here is how I cured it. With the help of Lifespeed's and RottenMutt's posts.

Started by creating a restore point before installing anything, just in case of failure. Installed Internet Security and ran live update. Started the Ghost install but stopped and carried out RottenMutt's instructions, copy the temp folder. Installed Ghost from the copied file and ran live update from Ghost. ONLY updated Ghost this way. Next I followed Lifespeed's instrutions and ran regedit because both my dvd drives had errors.

ALL this time I had the downloaded Ghost install file on cd in my drive and during the Ghost update the cd was read. All is now working!!! This was after 2 days and many hours with Symantec's Indian branch on my computer who seemed clueless.

At one point both dvd drives and my memory card reader failed and I had to do a complete reload of vista. It is such a shame that Symantec have a great product, Ghost, but such terrible service. Ghost has rescued me many times in the past so I can't do without it. I hope this helps those of you with this problem, thanks to Lifespeed and RottenMutt.

I am having this same problem. There is no success with the workarounds however. I have tried the temp file workaround, using NRT to clean things out, doing this without having NIS installed, but to no avail. Doug, Try the fix back in message 8 of this thread. It has worked for several. Symantec is ignoring this problem. We are on our own.

I also have attempted to LiveUpdate and received the same message, "LiveUpdate has determined that this machine is running a pre-released or beta version of a Symantec product First install of Ghost Second installation attempt, LiveUpdate occurred with no problems Ghost was still activated after reinstall, as I recall, which seemed odd and I successfully imaged my drive.

Today I attempted to run LiveUpdate again, after installing more apps and preparatory to imaging again. LU A program that was part of this update failed when it ran. This update was not applied. LU LiveUpdate downloaded all of the updates you requested, but all of them failed to install. Please try to get the updates at a later time. Ghost 14 LiveUpdate just worked following my procedure in message 8 of this thread for Windows 7 beta bit version.

The install takes a while, so be patient. The last little bit of the progress indicator takes longer than the rest. ISO file. You can burn this to CD and that would suffice. Did you create the logs? If you've posted them somewhere could you point the location out to me? LU means the patch failed and there can be more than one cause. I need that installer log in order to see what the cause might be.

I think I speak for others on this board when I say that is a rather tall order, asking us to deliberately break our computers with Symantec's buggy software. I found recovering from this problem particularly problematic as the Gear-something-or-other optical drive driver was incompatible with AnyDVD-HD in a way that caused my drive to disappear in windows. Uninstalling that driver allowed my Blu-ray drive to work properly again.

After going through hours of pain to get it working again, I don't think I'll every use Symantec's live update feature again. May I suggest you simply run live update on a Vista bit computer and view the problem for yourself? It is clearly a common problem and should not be difficult to reproduce. I've run LiveUpdate on several Vista 64 bit machines here and have not encountered any of the problems described here.

Apparently not as common a problem as you are stating. Do you have any specific symptoms that occured? I believe an uninstall and reinstall of Norton Ghost 14 was part of the repair process going by memory that resulted in the Gear driver being installed on a system with AnyDVD-HD already present.

After the Ghost install, the optical drive no longer functioned, or appeared in windows explorer Vista Ghost casued me more problems that a hacker could possibly have done.

There are known problems in installing Ghost and running Live update then you can shake a stick at. It is a discrase that there is no message to indicate that the Install CD is required when running the first Live update; instead the liveupdate hangs or worse, destroys Ghost.

They may well go beyond Vista 64bit. As a user of six Symantics procucts I can tell you that Ghost, System Works, Norton Internet Security and several other products simply do not work correctly with Vista 64 bit.

You comment just earlier expresses the attitude that Symantics has - "All of the problems are the users! Live update is a joke. This is a joke. The products are so bad that the only think Symantics can come up with is to run their utility to uninstall all Symantic products and start over.

This is the last time that I will purchace any Symantics products - there are many other better and certainly more reliable products on the market to waste time trying to get Symantics products running.

The reason why there is no notice about requiring the CD is that it is not required. When they aren't the Windows Installer automatically prompts for the installation media. What you're mentioning has nothing to do with the product, but entirely due to the design of the Windows Installer.

The same occurs if a file or registry entry for a product is removed and the product supports the repair feature within Windows. I don't understand why you're saying that the updates where corrupted. LU means the patch failed to install. If the download was corrupt you would have received an LU or one of other LU error codes. If you have the log. The LU document has many steps to it. Could you clarify which step you said failed to run? After all that was said, after a long history from several previous additions of Ghost, after this long thread, the update program still screws up.

Erik declares that "Apparently not as common a problem as you are stating". Wow, Erik, has a lot of courage. Seems like he wants to pull away from the whole thing as fast as he can. Previous post: Comcast undecided on new p2p policy Next post: Overheating iPod batteries replaced by Apple. JFC, what happened to Ghost!?!? I still use Ghost under DOS and still try to find something that is at least as hardware-independent when doing offline-images….

Is there an application like this that can make the image from a partition to a dvd and create it bootable? So when i need to restore all is needed is put the image in the drive and power on the computer? No drivers required. In an attempt to identify malicious websites iirc.

I stopped using Norton Ghost when version 12 took about 25 minutes from booting the CD to actually selecting the backup file to restore from. Thanks for this link ismanio. Not tried the. The reason why this takes 20 mins to load is that it has to load x more drivers than when Ghost was available via a floppy bootdisk. Anyone recommend the best system for realtime imaging? Your IP Address is. Location is. Comments Feel free to post your torrent, subtitles, samples, free download, quality, NFO, rapidshare, depositfiles, uploaded.

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