Ghost image data recovery...

[PreOmegaZero]

I recently made an image of my 180GB HD onto an 80GB HD using Ghost 2003.
The image says it was created successfully (so I thought).
I wiped the 180GB and tried to manually extract data from the Ghost image using Ghost Explorer in Windows.
I received an 'Image corrupted' message and nothing appears to be in the image.
I tried attepting to use PC Inspector File recovery, but it gives me "found an unexpected error" and doesn't continue.
Tried using Digital Picture Recovery, but it either took too long and errored out, or if I found someting I might want to extract, the shareware crap won't let me extract it (I'll only pay if I can get all my pics).
I would like at the MINIMUM to get most of my picture files (JPG, TIFF) out of the image

Can anyone recommend another app that can read .GHO/.GHS images or soemthing free that will help me extract what I need?

P.S. - The 80GB doesn't seem to have any issues after running CHKDSK /R on it, but I'll run a DFT on it to make sure it's not hardware.

 

[LiLithTecH]

You can try running Ghost Explorer from the Command Line
with the switches -IGNOREINDEX and -CORRUPT.

-IGNOREINDEX allows Ghost to read the files Directly from the
image rather than using the INDEX.

-CORRUPT allows Ghost to ignore the Corrupt area of the IMAGE and
tries to find the next good file in the Image.

 

[PreOmegaZero]

Originally posted by: LiLithTecH
You can try running Ghost Explorer from the Command Line
with the switches -IGNOREINDEX and -CORRUPT.

-IGNOREINDEX allows Ghost to read the files Directly from the
image rather than using the INDEX.

-CORRUPT allows Ghost to ignore the Corrupt area of the IMAGE and
tries to find the next good file in the Image.

I forgot to mention I also tried this to no avail. It STILL tells me:
"Corruption in image file, or media not present. Not all files are shown"
...it doesn't show ANY files.

The DFT turned out fine.
I'm still not sure what caused the data corruption other than the raid card (when creating the image, the 180GB was on the motherboard IDE controller and the 80GB was on the Silicon Image-based controller I have).

 

[PreOmegaZero]

system setup is not the one in my sig btw.
the system everything was done on is:
Abit IC7 with 17 BIOS
P4 2.53ghz running @ stock
1GB PC3200 RAM
WD 180GB 7200RPM with 8MB cache
IBM 80GB 7200RPM 120GXP
Koutech Silicon Image-based IDE RAID card
Netgear FA311 NIC

 

[lucky9]

I would bet that you'll have to put things back to the original configuration to recover your data. I've never found Ghost to be very easy to work with when there are config changes. Especially with PCI IDE cards.

 

[BT7990]

You can also have ghost run an integrity check of an image after its created. More time consuming, but sometimes worth the effort.

 

[raydeo]

Justa thought, but can you load your OS to the formatted drive and then try copy and paste from the image in WindowsExplorer. Might save what you need...