Ok here was my scenario and I'll state what I did to resolve the issue.
I was actually testing out this software to give out to someone because I didn't know exactly how to make a Ghost Bootable disc with OS and all on the disc. I used Acronis in the past and that requires you to create an acronis boot disc. Generally, that works flawlessly, but we wanted to get rid of the extra boot disc and create a disc that just has the OS/drivers and all. This would make distribution easy--obviously. I knew Ghost did it, I just didn't know how.
So...to the meat and potatoes...
I installed Ghost
Went through the wizard step by step
Now I want to make mention of a few things before I continue---
1: I am running Windows Vista x64 business--it told me that there are reported problems with this product and this edition of Windows. I figured, hell I'll continue and see where it takes me. If I hit the problems, I'll run from there.
2: I did this on my main box--Very foolish. I was stupid enough to do this and realized the mistake afterward. Live and learn.
Anyways, after going through the wizard, step, it prompts me that the machine will restart to start the ghosting process. I hit ok and it starts.
When it starts PC DOS, it gives me the options of going to the Ghost or restarting to Windows. When going to ghost it lags and does nothing but gives me a blinking cursor.
When attempting to go to Windows, it does the same.
I read the bottom of the screen and it gave me the option to bypass the startup files by hitting F5. I hit F5 and it gives me the options to go into Ghost, go to windows, or exit to DOS prompt. I exited to DOS. From here I typed Dir and it gave me the directory for the files in the "GHOST" directory. I then started using the gdisk command utility.
When using this utility, behind every command you have to put "/i".
Example: gdisk 1 /status /i
If you don't, it will just sit there.
Here's what I did:
gdisk 1 /status /i
gdisk 1 /act /p:x<--this is the numbered partition/drive you want active
Once this is done, restart your machine and you will be able to boot into Windows.
Symantec has the information on their website
Here's the link:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...nsf&view=docid
I didn't delete the partition however, I just made my partition active. Once I was able to boot back into Vista, I removed Norton Ghost 2003. It's just not for Vista, there is a Vista solution--I just need to grab that.
Hope this helps and if I have made any mistakes or something misleading, please let me know. I will gladly duplicate this problem and see what steps I missed.
--Thanks!
Vitamin D