Restoring Ghost

Hi All I have got a clean image of my os with PQi extension and when i am using Norton Ghost 2003 to restore this image its not recognisng the extension and asking for GHO. Is there any way out. Regards

PowerQuest Drive Image
PowerQuest was purchased by Norton and re-branded to be included in Norton Ghost.
There "may" be a possibility to restore your Drive Image using Norton Ghost…. maybe.
Go to the below linked Support information.
Read Carefully and follow the instructions precisely.
It may work.

best regards


From Symantec Support Knowledge Base:

* Create a WinPE boot package from Ghost Boot Wizard that will best fit your needs. If you are not familiar with the process of the Ghost Boot Wizard, please see the document, How to make a Windows PE boot package with the Ghost Boot Wizard

- On the screen labeled Client Type, add the switch -ad=image file name under Program Location > Parameters (use the full path name to the .PQI image). Example: If J:\ is the network drive letter, “-ad=J:\Image.PQI”.
- Under Additional Files, Click on the Add button. Click on Add again and Browse to the C:\Program Files\Symantec\Ghost. Find the V2iDiskLib.dll. Highlight the file > click on Open > OK. This will take you back to the Additional Files Window, click on Next.
- Complete the WinPE boot package
- Boot the PC into Windows PE with the boot package created.

A .PQI file should restore under the following conditions:

- Create a boot disk from Deploy Center 5.7.
- Create a .PQI image by boot disk and save the image to a different location like a 2nd HDD.
- Manually go to the X:\Ghost folder on the bootable media to verify where the image was stored.
- Put in the full path name to the .PQI image.
- Restore the image to a primary partition.
- Perform a partition restore.

NOTE: The image created in Deploy Center 5.7 needs to be created with default or low compression. If the .PQI image was created using High compression, when restoring, will receive the error, "40221", "*.PQI is not a valid image file" or "Internal Error 36000 , An Internal inconsistency has been detected”. At the current time, GSS 2.5 does not have the ability to restore a *.PQI file that was created using high compression. This is working as designed. PQIDeploy can be used to restore the image. Example: If the *.PQI image file was created with high compression, use PQIDeploy included in the Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 under the PQ Tools folder to restore the PQI image.

NOTE: V2iDisk.dll was tested with .PQI images created with Deploy Center 5.7. Images have not been tested with earlier versions of Deploy Center. They may or may not restore correctly.

Restored successfully by Norton Ghost 14. Thanks Smiling Ninja

Restored successfully by Norton Ghost 14.

Thanks

Smiling Ninja

Can you quickly tell me how you did it. I have PQI files that were created with a pre 5.7 version of Drive Image and Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 cannot do it, but would like to try Ghost 14 or 15. Symantec's was no help.