Norton Ghost is produce images w/ corrupted files in them. [SOLVED!]

[ty1er]

here is the situation.
I have been using Norton Ghost 2003 boot disk to make backup for the partitions on my PC.
I use to have and older extrenal usb hd that i would back up to. everything worked great..... until! i uprgaded my PC.

Now I am running a AMD64 on a Asus A8V rev2 [1009final bios] mobo. i also purchased a New USB HD Encloser that supports 48-bit addressing (HD over 137gb), as my old unit did Not support larger drivers.

Anyways on to my problem.
Now i go thur the usual process to backup my HDs, i use my Ghost boot disk, and proceed to back up my HDs onto the external USB HD. The imaging process completes, ghost tells me that it was a succesful backup.
Well, when i use the Ghosts Image Integerty Check, it says that there are corrupted with in the backed up image file.
I have tried backing up 5 times, every time the same thing happen. the integerty check finds corrupted files.

First im thinking that its my new External USB device.
So, i hook it up to my old PC, and backup 2 hard drives without problems, or errors.

Then im thinking that it might be ghost not liking my AMD64 setup....
So, i backup acouple partitions onto other Internal HDs running off of the motherboard ide channels. with out any problems.

Well, now i dont know what to think, or try. And was wondering if anyone else had an simlar experince with a solution

Maybe i should try a different HD imaging Program (preferbly a boot disk type app)

Or i was think of running my External USB device off an USD PCI card, instead of runnning it off the mobo usb ports......



[EDIT]
Here are my Defualt BIOS settings under the

USB Configuration

USB 1.1 Ports Configuration [USB 8 Ports]
USB 2.0 Configuration [Enabled]
Lagacy USB Support [Auto]
USB 2.0 Configuration Mode [Full Speed]

USB Emulation Mode [Auto]
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[BlueWeasel]

Take the image file that you backed up to one of the internal HDs (one that was verified 100%) and copy it to the new external drive. See if Ghost can then complete the integrity check on the external drive using the image file you know is uncorrupted.

If Ghost says the image is corrupted, it seems as though Ghost doesn't like that particular USB enclosure or USB controller. If doing the above works, then why not just backup to your internal HD and copy the image over to the external drive.

 

[ty1er]

Take the image file that you backed up to one of the internal HDs (one that was verified 100%) and copy it to the new external drive. See if Ghost can then complete the integrity check on the external drive using the image file you know is uncorrupted.

I did do that with several Known good previous images. I copied them over onto the USB HD then verified them with Ghost. They Verified 100% NO errors.

If Ghost says the image is corrupted, it seems as though Ghost doesn't like that particular USB enclosure or USB controller.

I hooked up the same USB device other PC and successfully backup 2 hard drives without problems, or errors.

then why not just backup to your internal HD and copy the image over to the external drive.

Im thinking that, that could be an last resort, if nothing else works.

thanks

 

[ty1er]

SOLVED!

Here was my default AMI Bios config under the "USB Configuration" section

USB 1.1 Ports Configuration [USB 8 Ports]
USB 2.0 Configuration [Enabled]
Lagacy USB Support [Auto]
USB 2.0 Configuration Mode [Full Speed]

USB Emulation Mode [Auto]

I simply changed Lagacy USB Support [Auto], to Disable.

So instead of the using the motherboards bios to allow access to the USB HD, i can now use the Iomega USB driver for Ghost.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Nice, so now Ghost verifies the integrity with no errors?

 

[ty1er]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Nice, so now Ghost verifies the integrity with no errors?

So far i have checked two images and no errors!

 

[sando63]

I dont know how much experience you hgave with backing up Hard Drives and Partitions with Norton Ghost or Drive Image or any other backup utility, but the first step is to always check the integrity of the hard drive or partition itself before making a ghost image of the hard drive or partition. Such as SCANDISK or CHKDSK because if there are files with bad formats or a bad FAT table or files that are corrupt before you make your backup I know ghost will get confused and give you those error messages. Same as with Drive Image. Ghost is much more forgiving than Drive Image it will let you go ahead and back it up Drive Image will usually just hang.

 

[dunkster]

What sando63 said!

I'd further suggest that the free utility offered by the maker of your HD for testing HD integrity is probably superior to CHKDSK or any generic utility, since the HD-maker's utility probably has much better control of read-sensitivity for read/write sector checks.

For my WD HD, Western Digital's DLGDIAG found weak sectors that CHKDSK missed. This cured the problem of my backup images failing byte-for-byte image verification checks.

Hope this helps!