HELP ME!!! CRC Errors & Norton Ghost 2002

[MoobyTheGoldenCalf]

Let me start from the beginning of my night from Hell . . .

I backed up my HD earlier using Norton Ghost 2002 onto 9 CD-Roms. Everything worked fine with the backup. No errors, no problems, etc.

Afterwards, I wanted to give myself some double reassurance that I had everything all backed up nicely, so I was going to ghost my hard drive onto another spare HD I have.

Well, being the total dumb-ass that I am, I got the drive #'s mixed up and I ended up ghosting my spare (blank) HD onto my real HD. So now I'm sitting here in total shock that I just erased everything.

After hyperventallating for a few minutes I calmed down and said, well that's OK, I can just restore the HD from the CD-Rom backup I made earlier.

So, I go to restore from the CD image and everthing is fine . . . until I get to CD #6. It gets about halfway through the CD and stops reading and tells me there's a data error. (Now I'm freaking out) So after futzing around with it to no avail for 2 hours, I reinstalled WinXP and tried copying all the CDs to my HD. They all copy fine except for #6. I keep getting a "Data Error: Cyclic Redundancy Check".

To top it off, Norton Ghost won't let me see ANY of my data unless all the CDs are there so it can re-create the whole image.

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! What can I do to get my PC to read this CD? Or are there any utilities (other then Ghost Explorer) that will let you view a .GHO file? I will be totally screwed if I can't get this HD back.

Please Help!

 

[narzy]

Try This forum(Software)
Or This one...(Tech Support)

in other words...Wrong Forum...you should know this by now as a senior member...


as for your question...you could be SOL...:Q sometimes even backups fail 🙁

 

[Dunbar]

This is why I prefer Drive Image over Ghost. In my experience it's easier to use and the image files are more reliable. You should always at least check the integrity of your image file after making one. You can do this from within the Ghost GUI. You found out the hard way that your image was bad. BTW, may I suggest you use at least low compression next time?

 

[DN]

"Well, being the total dumb-ass that I am, I got the drive #'s mixed up and I ended up ghosting my spare (blank) HD onto my real HD. So now I'm sitting here in total shock that I just erased everything."

I don't want to sound cruel or anything, but.. the sentence above made me laugh so hard that I couldn't breath for 1-2 minutes.. Thanks a lot..

 

[robg1701]

LOL, thats nothing.....someone in a group im part of once formatted 3 (yes, thats THREE !!!! ) incorrect partitions after booting from a DOS bootdisk because he didnt realise about NTFS....each time he did it, he started over and did it again on another incorrect drive, saw hed f$cked up again and then made the same mistake AGAIN...hehe....lost 45GB of mp3, quite a bit of stored data, and an incorrect windows partition....i mean christ, how long does it take to do a DIR command just o make sure your nuking the right one ? 😛

Back to the poster though....have you checked the cd for any irregularities, its possibly not Ghosts fault, could have just been a duff cd. This is why i test any backups i make before i rely on them....and if its important.....make 2 backups 🙂