___ Ghost failed, now stuck on DOS treadmill ___ Help?

[Blain]

My system...
IC7-G / 3.4C / 1GB PC3200 (nothing OC'd)

Original HD I tried to Ghost - 36GB Raptor with XP Pro.
Current HD running 160GB Seatgate with XP Pro.

While running the Raptor I attempted to Ghost (OEM that came on the SystemWorks 2003 Pro CD), my Raptor drive onto a 39GB partition on the Seagate.

During the reboot to do the ghosting, Ghost failed to complete the cloning. The menu options seemed simple enough, one option was to exit Ghost and boot into Windows.
The only problem was that it wouldn't do anything after I chose that option.

There were different things I tried to get to Windows, but even F8 couldn't get me past the stupid Ghost DOS startup. I finally gave up and just loaded Windows onto the Seagate manually. Now I'm just trying to extract my data from the Raptor...

* With the Raptor set as slave to the Seagate, I can access the files/folders.
1. Is there any way I can "uninstall" Ghost from the Raptor while it's set as a slave to the Seagate?
2. In order to get rid of Ghost (and possibly reboot the Raptor into Windows as master again), would simply deleting the Ghost folder, allow me to do that?

 

[LiLithTecH]

It is a little confusing on what you did exactly.

Did you do a PARTITION to PARTITION copy or CLONE?

When GHOST failed, did it give an error?
If Ghost encounters an error on the HD while imaging it will abort the process.


To answer your last 2 questions.
1. No
2. No

Removing it while connected as slave would not remove the Registry entries and
would likely cause more errors and problems.

 

[Blain]

I was cloning the Raptor drive to a 39GB partition on the Seagate.

The error message was that the mouse driver wasn't found. I changed the setting in the BIOS so the USB mouse could operate in DOS, but Ghost still hung at the same point (only this time without the mouse driver message).

I have copied some folders from the Raptor over to the Seagate just to have them backed up.

What I've tried so far, but still get stuck on the DOS treadmill...
* Deleted the whole Symantec folder containing Ghost.
* Deleted everything in the Raptor's Windows temp folder.

Is there some temp folder somewhere on the Raptor that's cached the Ghost operation?

 

[dev0lution]

It usually happens with 865 based chipsets, but could be the same issue...

Symantec Support

 

[Blain]

Mine is an 875 chipset. But after this problem, Ghost is off my list of programs to use.

Sort of like the deathstar HDs...
Once someone has one fail on them, then all IBM/Hitachi drives are bad. :laugh:

 

[jackschmittusa]

I've used ghost dozens of times and never had it fail.