Ghost 9 Backup of XP

[Guest]

I am getting frustrated trying to back up my HD using Ghost 9.

I have tried several times (5) now and I get essentially the same
results...the process hangs every time before it ever finishes the first
image, usually about 20-50% of the complete 'job'.

I have a WD Passport USB drive (40GB) which was formatted FAT32 and I
reformatted it for NTFS on the advice of another experienced user. That made
no difference.

I have a laptop (Dell), P4 processor (2 ghz), 512 RAM, XP Pro operating
system.

Any direction/help would severly curtain the anxiety and frustration I am
having with this 'bear'.

Thank you.

george (polaris6)

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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How to perform a disk-to-disk clone
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/pfdocs/2001032917165825

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| I am getting frustrated trying to back up my HD using Ghost 9.
|
| I have tried several times (5) now and I get essentially the same
| results...the process hangs every time before it ever finishes the first
| image, usually about 20-50% of the complete 'job'.
|
| I have a WD Passport USB drive (40GB) which was formatted FAT32 and I
| reformatted it for NTFS on the advice of another experienced user. That made
| no difference.
|
| I have a laptop (Dell), P4 processor (2 ghz), 512 RAM, XP Pro operating
| system.
|
| Any direction/help would severly curtain the anxiety and frustration I am
| having with this 'bear'.
|
| Thank you.
|
| george (polaris6)

 

[Yves Leclerc]

The problem you may be having is that XP has a 4GB filesize limit when
storing a file on FAT32 partitions.

 

[Guest]

I reformatted the USB Drive from FAT32 to NTFS.

 

[Anna]

I reformatted the USB Drive from FAT32 to NTFS.

George:
Whatever problem you're having with Ghost 9 to (presumably) clone the
contents of your laptop's HD to a USB external HD has *nothing* to do with
the file system on that USBEHD. There was no need to convert that drive from
FAT32 to NTFS, but it's of no import here. The 4 GB limitation involving
moving/copying individual files in a FAT32 environment is irrelevant and I
don't know why Yves raised that as a possible issue in this situation.

Please furnish detailed information on *precisely* how you used the Ghost
program to undertake the disk cloning process. Do so step-by-step. And
please provide details.

Had you previously used the Ghost program to successfully perform a disk
cloning operation? There's no problem with your working drive, right? It
boots without a problem and functions properly, right? And your USBEHD is
similarly functioning without problems, right?
Anna

 

[Guest]

Thank you. I don't suppose it would be wise to reformat the USB HD back to
the original FAT32 format. Actually, I don't know how to do that. I may not
have the software to do it.

Anyway, here I go, step-by-step.

1. I have reformatted the USB HD (40 GB) and it is now 'clean'.

2. I R-click on the G9 icon (tray), click on Back up now, then Back up
drives

3. Up comes the Wizard and I click, Next, the select the C-drive to back up.

4. Then I click, Next, then Browse, then F-drive (the USB HD), radio button
selects Local File, then click on Next.

5. This is the Options page; I select Standard Compression, then click on
Next (which provides a Summary of the task), then click on Next

6. Any away it goes, starting with Initialization.

After about 2 hours (about 6-9 GB later)... (34 GB to back up), the computer
hangs up and I have to reboot to get it to do anything. I have tried this
7-8 times now and have reformatted the HD each time before I start the
process again. Each new time, I followed the advice given me, thinking that
it might make a difference, and it hasn't.

Thanks.

george (polaris6)






..

 

[Guest]

I forgot the other information you asked about.

I have NOT used Ghost before. This software was recommended to me because
of the feature to restore the operating system in toto. I have a lot of
marine navigational software and date on this laptop, and lost it 2x in the
last 6 months one system crash and one HD mechanical crash. this software
was to be the answer for me to salvage my computer 'investment' more
efficiently.

Both drives work well. I can copy data to and from both (in large
quantities (25 BG) without any hitches.

 

[Richard Urban [MVP]]

Ghost 9, and almost any imaging program I suppose, does not like hard disk
errors. When I ran across this problem I ran chkdsk c: /f, from the command
prompt window. When the computer again booted up I was able to complete the
Ghost image.

Try it and see if it helps you also.

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"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

 

[Guest]

Did you run chkddsk on the c-drive or the USB drive, or both?

Did you run this from the command prompt? I think that is what you wrote.

polaris6

 

[Richard Urban [MVP]]

Just on my Windows partition. Apparently there was a logical error that
caused Ghost to fault out. It certainly wouldn't hurt to check your external
drive also.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

 

[Guest]

I have done both. I am now trying to back up again.

 

[Guest]

BINGO!!!!!! Richard. The 'chkdsk c: /f' worked. Thank you.

I wonder why that process isn't done routinely before the backup process.

Thanks again. Now at some time in the future, I will try to restore one of
the files.

 

[Richard Urban [MVP]]

Glad to have helped out!

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Richard Urban
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Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"