Ghost 2002 EMERGENCY!!!

[Bglad]

Hey all

I'm checking the faq's and history now so if I'm reposting, don't slay me here because I'm in a panic.

I'm trying to restore a drive with Ghost 2002. I have 2 backups of the drive I'm trying to restore. One is on an extra hard drive and one is spanned on several CD-RW's. Both of them are giving me errors.

First I get a CRC error. I can ignore this and force it to keep going but then I get a window that says the image is corrupt and it won't continue.

1. What the heck should I do? I have 2 backups and neither seems usable.
2. Is there a way to force it to continue a restore and ignore all errors?
3. What causes this? I've used Ghost for some time and never had problems before.

Someone please save my hide!!
Thx

 

[wjsulliv]

CDC error? What does CDC stand for?

I had an image fail to load once from CD...
The CD's were dirty. Check that first.
Second just keep trying. Sometimes it seems to just fail for no reason.
Third try formating the destination, writing over something that is blank might go smoother than writing over the old os.

 

[HardwareFreek]

I had the same problem using spanned CD's from the ghost proggie, it just seems to not be able to find the next data block off the CD, I just keep my backup on my HDD now.:disgust:

 

[AndyHui]

A CRC is a Cyclic Redundancy Check error.

It means that the check control has found that part of the information stream has been corrupted. I can't really offer anything much but to try it on another system, or try the discs in another drive. If your machine is overclocked, put it back to normal speed and try the restoration.

 

[wjsulliv]

A CRC is a Cyclic Redundancy Check error

Ahh, I got one of those once. The CD-R's were dirty. I cleaned them and everything went fine.

A word of recomendation (or alternative) regarding making spanned CD-R backups.

I have a laptop without a burner, but wanted a CD-R backup of the installation. I didn't want to make a bunch of 650 MB spans to be put onto CD-R later. So I set up a seperate partition on my main machine (the one with the burner) and just ghosted the installation directly to that partition. Since I never altered the MBR, it didn't change the way the other machine functioned. I then rebooted with the CD-RW ghost disk and backed up that system that way. Now I have 2 backups. One is not compressed and can be transfered via TCP/IP and the other was spanned by the ghost program, which seems to work better than manual spanning.

 

[Bglad]

Thx for the replies. Here is the outcome.

I have 2 partitions on my main drive and had 2 backups of both, 2 image files on spanned CD-R's and 2 image files on an extra hard drive used to hold nothing but my backups.

After trying to get the D drive to restore for about the 10th time, I got it to restore to 90 percent ignoring CRC errors. This gave me energy to keep trying and I finally got the D drive to restore completely, albeit with CRC errors. I never did get the C drive to restore. Since the C drive is windows only and all my data is on the D, I didn't lose anything. I had to reload windows and all my software, but at least I didn't lose all my data. I would have been extremely angry to say the least if I had 2 backups and still lost all my data.

I was able to get the backup off the HD. I gave up on the CD-R's and probably won't use them with Ghost ever again.

wjsulliv: I tried that and posted on these boards about it some time ago. I can't get my laptop to recognize the pcmcia network card in dos so Ghost won't work on it. I think its not recognizing card services. I've tried all kinds of software but never got it to work. I have to take the hard drive out of my laptop and hook it up to my desktop machine to back it up. How did you get this to work?

Anyway, I still can't figure out what caused this. But to all the Ghost users: The moral of the story is run a check on your image files after saving!!! These image files can be highly volatile. There really should be a way to force Ghost to continue a backup ignoring errors.

 

[nealh]

can I make a suggestion..try Go Back Deluxe from Roxio..it works well as a backup tool...It back up your data to a separate HDD partition and when your computer boots..you will get the Bios screens the nroxio go back screen for about 15 sec the nwin will boot..so it sits between the bios and win..if therre is a problem it can make an excellent restore tool...I had some winxp probs..tried system restore said it could not work so stupid error..I think has to do with Athlon setup and my mobo drivers or something..but with roxio I rebooted enter Go Back setup and had a perfect restore ..the nice thing is it take a pic of my system and what I tell it to backup while winxp is up..I and I have to do is remember when the system was ok...and boom..it does require a bit of space at least 10% of HDD and should be on separate partition and do not run Norton Speed disk on this partition or you can have trouble I have been told....

 

[Bglad]

I appreciate the suggestions but I think a backup on an extra partition of the same drive is a very bad idea. If something happens to that drive, your backup is gone with the rest of your drive. It doesn't back you up in the case of a hard drive failure or a virus that may wipe the entire drive (yes I have seen this happen).

The only sure backup is a full backup to an extra drive. I use an extra drive that can be removed from the computer completely via external hd bay. Computer gets backed up then the backup drive goes in a desk drawer. Given my problems with Ghost, I'm willing to change the software I use for backup, but I'm not willing to change that part of the process.

 

[nealh]

go back should be able to placed on any hdd partition....I think for on separate HDD as well....