Norton Ghost connection problems

[Mike]

I have a dell laptop in which I am trying to replace he hard drive.
(Its already crashed a few times). I have used Norton Ghost over
tcp/ip to copy the drive over the network to a spare drive on my pc.
Its a 30gig drive and takes about 2 hrs. (its about 135Mbs/sec)

The problem that I am having is that when I try to copy the drive from
the pc back to the new drive in the laptop, it wants to take about 65
hrs. The transfer rate drops to 4Mbs/sec.

Any ideas? Im stumped.

As you probably know, in the first transfer the laptop is the ghost
server, but in the second transfer the pc is the ghost server. I have
no idea why it should be fast in one direction and so slow in the
other.

Thanks,
Mike

 

[Michael Hawes]

I have a dell laptop in which I am trying to replace he hard drive.

(Its already crashed a few times). I have used Norton Ghost over
tcp/ip to copy the drive over the network to a spare drive on my pc.
Its a 30gig drive and takes about 2 hrs. (its about 135Mbs/sec)

The problem that I am having is that when I try to copy the drive from
the pc back to the new drive in the laptop, it wants to take about 65
hrs. The transfer rate drops to 4Mbs/sec.

Any ideas? Im stumped.

Is it 30Gb of data? 15Gb an hour is 4Mb/sec.

Mike.

 

[Mike]

Is it 30Gb of data? 15Gb an hour is 4Mb/sec.

Mike.

It is about 30Gb of data, but it is definitely taking around 65 hours
as opposed to 2 hours.

 

[Sheldon Roger]

It is about 30Gb of data, but it is definitely taking around 65 hours
as opposed to 2 hours.

Two possible fixes:

1. There are live updates for Ghost avaliable at Symantec depending
on which version you are using.

2. Some PC's require MSDOS instead of PCDOS to run well. I had to
change to MSDOS to obtain faster operation by susbstituing under
"ghost\options". My NF7-S would not run at all with PCDOS.