Norton Ghost 2003

[357mag]

I just used Norton Ghost 2003 to make an image of my entire hard drive and I stored it on my USB drive. The process only took like about 10 minutes. When it was done I highlighted the image and to the left it said "Modifed 4/4/2005 1:20 AM". Or something like that. But the time was actually about 12:20 AM. I could not understand why Ghost was showing the time to be about 1 hour ahead of what it should say. I emailed Symantec and they said this is not a common issue and it won't affect anything. Well I knew that but wanted a better answer so I emailed them again. This time they said to try updating the BIOS or check the CMOS battery, and to make sure the date and time are configured properly. Well my clock is showing the correct time. And I opened up Date and Time in the Control Panel and looked in there and it does say Central Daylight Time which is correct since I live in Minnesota.

I haven't tried updating the BIOS since I'm kinda scared to do that cuz I think you can fry your motherboard if you do something wrong. And my motherboard went in last August so how can the battery be going already?

Anyway what should I do?

[ErnieK]

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This does not entail flashing (upgrading) the bios an is safe to do as all you are doing is changing the time and date

You could check to see if the BIOS is set to the correct time and date just by booting into it. To access the BIOS you will see instructions during boot-up as to which key you have to press to enter Set-up (as it is sometimes called) or the CMOS or the BIOS. Press the appropriate key and this will take you to the main BIOS page.

Here it will show the time and date that the BIOS is set at. If the date is wrong you can change this by using the keyboard.

If you are usure about working in the BIOS do no procceed furhter than the initial screen. When oyu are set to leave the BIOS it asks if you want to save oyur changes and tells you how to do so. If you say no it just keeps your original settings.

Again wait until someone esle comes along and either verifies my stament or says I am talking a load of cods wallop (not unknown or unusual :rolleyes: )

[CuratoR]

I don't think its justified to update the BIOS just becuz symantec said so.
If you pc's time is correct, its probably symnatec's ghost that has a problem.

[357mag]

Well I did find something out. It's got something to do when Windows XP(I'm using 2000) changes from daylight savings time in the fall and back again in the spring, the time stamps of files saved on the local hard drive are no longer synchronized with exact copies on Zip drives, floppy drives, and so forth. Instead, they show up with exactly an hour difference.

I printed off the entire article and am reading up on it. It does sound like a plausible explanation. But I will look into the BIOS and make sure the date and time are set right.