Ghost Imaging Problem

I'm hoping some of you might be able to help. I've run into a problem
that I've never seen before and can't seem to solve. I have a BD7II
board with 512mb of RAM, 2.6GHz CPU, Matrox G-450, IBM 30GB drive for
my C: drive and a IBM 40GB drive for backups. I just did a fresh
install and want to image the drive so I don't have to do this again
if things go south... I created a boot disk and boot with it and
create an image. I get to about 98% of completion where it asks for
you to put in the 2nd media and soon thereafter I get an error message
saying there is not enough room on the D drive... Now I'm only
Ghosting about 5GB of data and putting it on a drive that has over
36GB of free space. No matter what I do I keep getting this error
message. I've used this program on my other 3 computers (all different
machines AMD and Intel but no P4 machines...) and have never
encountered this problem. I've tried imaging to other drives of
varying sizes and it's always the same.

Any ideas of what's going on and more importantly, what I can do to
fix this so I have a working image of my C drive? Thanks for any help
that you guys can give!

Dave

Forgot to mention, the version of Ghost that I'm using is 2002 for Win
2k + XP only.

Dave

said this...

> Forgot to mention, the version of Ghost that I'm using is 2002 for Win
> 2k + XP only.
>
> Dave

If you open 'ghost' and point it at the D: drive, what size does it see?

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On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:28:16 GMT, Groove <grooove@FRAGmyrealbox.com>
wrote:

}> Forgot to mention, the version of Ghost that I'm using is 2002 for
}> Win
}> 2k + XP only.
}>
}> Dave
}
}If you open 'ghost' and point it at the D: drive, what size does it
}see?

Good question, as I didn't say, it sees it just fine. The BIOS, Windows,
and Ghost Viewer and in DOS all see the target drive as the proper size
and having over 37gb free. It's driving me nuts why this is happening,
nothing I have tried seems to help. I've made sure that both drives are
run in LBA mode as some imaging software needs that but I just don't get
this one...

Thanks for the reply.

Dave

<No.Thanks@Here.com> wrote in message
news:98c1mv8651196kc47eu1h6ddcpj2jls182@4ax.com...
> I'm hoping some of you might be able to help. I've run into a problem
> that I've never seen before and can't seem to solve. I have a BD7II
> board with 512mb of RAM, 2.6GHz CPU, Matrox G-450, IBM 30GB drive for
> my C: drive and a IBM 40GB drive for backups. I just did a fresh
> install and want to image the drive so I don't have to do this again
> if things go south... I created a boot disk and boot with it and
> create an image. I get to about 98% of completion where it asks for
> you to put in the 2nd media and soon thereafter I get an error message
> saying there is not enough room on the D drive... Now I'm only
> Ghosting about 5GB of data and putting it on a drive that has over
> 36GB of free space. No matter what I do I keep getting this error
> message. I've used this program on my other 3 computers (all different
> machines AMD and Intel but no P4 machines...) and have never
> encountered this problem. I've tried imaging to other drives of
> varying sizes and it's always the same.
>
> Any ideas of what's going on and more importantly, what I can do to
> fix this so I have a working image of my C drive? Thanks for any help
> that you guys can give!
>
> Dave

Hi,
I remember something similar happening when I used that version of Ghost on
the PC I had at the time.
I'm pretty sure all I did when it asked for the next media was to push
enter, which seemed to persuade it that the media had been changed.
I think it's to do with the maximum size set for each segment of the Ghost
image, which I'm sure you can alter (can't remember how at the moment
though)

HTH
SteveH

Howdy!

<No.Thanks@Here.com> wrote in message
news:98c1mv8651196kc47eu1h6ddcpj2jls182@4ax.com...
> I'm hoping some of you might be able to help. I've run into a problem
> that I've never seen before and can't seem to solve. I have a BD7II
> board with 512mb of RAM, 2.6GHz CPU, Matrox G-450, IBM 30GB drive for
> my C: drive and a IBM 40GB drive for backups. I just did a fresh
> install and want to image the drive so I don't have to do this again
> if things go south... I created a boot disk and boot with it and
> create an image. I get to about 98% of completion where it asks for
> you to put in the 2nd media and soon thereafter I get an error message
> saying there is not enough room on the D drive... Now I'm only
> Ghosting about 5GB of data and putting it on a drive that has over
> 36GB of free space. No matter what I do I keep getting this error
> message. I've used this program on my other 3 computers (all different
> machines AMD and Intel but no P4 machines...) and have never
> encountered this problem. I've tried imaging to other drives of
> varying sizes and it's always the same.
>
> Any ideas of what's going on and more importantly, what I can do to
> fix this so I have a working image of my C drive? Thanks for any help
> that you guys can give!

Try adding the SPLIT=650 AUTO directives to the GHOST command line.

Why?

Well, you're probably hitting the 2GB file size limit, and an AUTO
does an auto name of subsequent files, and a SPLIT=650 leaves them just
under CD-sized, so you can dump the files onto CDs for when the whole HD
dies.

BTW - this IS in the manual. Didn't you read it?

RwP

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:00:51 GMT, "SteveH"
<steve.hough@NOSPAMPLEASEblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>I remember something similar happening when I used that version of Ghost on
>the PC I had at the time.
>I'm pretty sure all I did when it asked for the next media was to push
>enter, which seemed to persuade it that the media had been changed.

Yes, this is what I always do and have never had a problem but for
some reason it won't work with this particular setup.

>I think it's to do with the maximum size set for each segment of the Ghost
>image, which I'm sure you can alter (can't remember how at the moment
>though)

Hmmm, that would be great if you can do this as it might help. You're
not referring to using the Ghost Viewer and spanning are you? Thanks
for your reply.

Dave

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Ralph Wade Phillips stood up at show-n-tell, in
bjr5b8$mfjgm$4@ID-81734.news.uni-berlin.de, and said:

> Howdy!
>
> <No.Thanks@Here.com> wrote in message
> news:98c1mv8651196kc47eu1h6ddcpj2jls182@4ax.com...
>> I'm hoping some of you might be able to help. I've run into a problem
>> that I've never seen before and can't seem to solve. I have a BD7II
>> board with 512mb of RAM, 2.6GHz CPU, Matrox G-450, IBM 30GB drive for
>> my C: drive and a IBM 40GB drive for backups. I just did a fresh
>> install and want to image the drive so I don't have to do this again
>> if things go south... I created a boot disk and boot with it and
>> create an image. I get to about 98% of completion where it asks for
>> you to put in the 2nd media and soon thereafter I get an error
>> message saying there is not enough room on the D drive... Now I'm
>> only
>> Ghosting about 5GB of data and putting it on a drive that has over
>> 36GB of free space. No matter what I do I keep getting this error
>> message. I've used this program on my other 3 computers (all
>> different machines AMD and Intel but no P4 machines...) and have
>> never
>> encountered this problem. I've tried imaging to other drives of
>> varying sizes and it's always the same.
>>
>> Any ideas of what's going on and more importantly, what I can do to
>> fix this so I have a working image of my C drive? Thanks for any help
>> that you guys can give!
>
> Try adding the SPLIT=650 AUTO directives to the GHOST command
> line.
>
> Why?
>
> Well, you're probably hitting the 2GB file size limit, and an
> AUTO does an auto name of subsequent files, and a SPLIT=650 leaves
> them just under CD-sized, so you can dump the files onto CDs for when
> the whole HD dies.
>
> BTW - this IS in the manual. Didn't you read it?


What 2GB file size limit?


>
> RwP

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Howdy!

"Strontium" <abuse@your.isp.com> wrote in message
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> -
> Ralph Wade Phillips stood up at show-n-tell, in
> bjr5b8$mfjgm$4@ID-81734.news.uni-berlin.de, and said:

> >
> > Well, you're probably hitting the 2GB file size limit, and an
> > AUTO does an auto name of subsequent files, and a SPLIT=650 leaves
> > them just under CD-sized, so you can dump the files onto CDs for when
> > the whole HD dies.
> >
> > BTW - this IS in the manual. Didn't you read it?
>
>
> What 2GB file size limit?
>

The maximum size of a Ghost data file (at least through 2002 / 7.5,
anyway - haven't looked at 2003 yet) is 2GB. Which is more of a combination
of the FAT32 4GB limit and a lazy programmer that didn't pay attention to
the sign (as in positive / negative).

RwP

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:59:36 -0500, "Ralph Wade Phillips"
<ralphp@techie.com> wrote:

> Try adding the SPLIT=650 AUTO directives to the GHOST command line.
>
> Why?
>
> Well, you're probably hitting the 2GB file size limit, and an AUTO
>does an auto name of subsequent files, and a SPLIT=650 leaves them just
>under CD-sized, so you can dump the files onto CDs for when the whole HD
>dies.

I guess I'm wondering why I even need to do this when it has never
been a problem in the past. I don't want to go out and buy 8+ CDs to
store this on as I have a 2nd HD for this purpose and it has served me
well in all my other machines. Thanks for the suggestion but I'd
really like to understand why this is even a problem to begin with.

> BTW - this IS in the manual. Didn't you read it?

Yes, it is and I have. I've just never had a reason or desire to do
this. Thanks for the reply.

Dave