Problem w/Norton Ghost 2002 Personal Ed. **Update/More issues**

[LethalWolfe]

I'm trying to Ghost my main HDD (3 partions and a total of 26gigs of data) onto my 2nd HDD. But everytime I run Ghost it stops after 2-3gigs and says my destination HDD is full, but my destination drive is a formated, totally empty 20gig HDD. I have spanning enabled, so I should be hitting the 2 gig FAT file size limit (heck, the last time I did tried it got to 2.5 gigs before stopping). Any suggestions? I'm running Win2k BTW.


Lethal

UPDATE: When I try to "get MS-DOS" from a Win9x formated floppy Ghost keeps giving me a "can't find A:\msdos.sys" error. I've formated the floppy using 95 and 98 SE and I keep getting this error. Any suggestions?

 

[LethalWolfe]

bump

 

[Muadib]

Sounds like you are hitting the FAT limit. You should be able to hit enter, and it should continue.

 

[LethalWolfe]

<< Sounds like you are hitting the FAT limit. You should be able to hit enter, and it should continue. >>



That's what I thought too, but when I hit "enter" the "Drive is Full" error box will keep popping up, maybe four or five times, then Ghost will terminate and I'll be back in DOS. It's really weird.

Can Ghost 2002 write to an NTFS partion, or only FAT partions?


Lethal

 

[Muadib]

It still only writes to FAT. Don't even bother with it unless you plan to go to XP. Have you tried converting your drive to FAT32?

 

[jmorrell]

I had the same problem with Ghost 2002, and found the solution, verified by Norton tech support: recreate the Ghost boot disk with MS DOS instead of the DOS that Ghost uses (Dr DOS, if I remember correctly). Dr DOS used by Ghost has the 2 gig limit on what it can see in hard drives, whereas MS DOS from Windows 98 or later does not.

To create the new Ghost boot disk, first create a bootable MS DOS disk. Then, start the Ghost boot disk creation program. Select MS DOS as the system to use. Ghost will ask you to insert the bootable MS DOS disk you created. Ghost then copies the MS DOS files to your hard drive, then copies them back to the Ghost boot disk.

When using the new boot disk, when the Ghost image file hits 2 gig, it will ask for another disk. Just hit enter, and it will continue to create a series of 2 gig image files until your entire hard drive is imaged. Or, if you want the image to be created unattended, there is a switch that can be added to the Ghost command line on the boot disk that automates the process (see the list of switches in the Ghost manual for details).

 

[LethalWolfe]

jmorrell,

I think that's it. I used the "other" DOS, not MS DOS. Sweet.


Lethal

 

[jmorrell]

LethalWolfe,

I just checked the command to allow you to make the image unattended: put the -auto switch after the ghostpe.exe command in the autoexec.bat file on the floppy.

One other thing I recommend: if you have a CDRW, create a bootable CDR (using Nero, Easy CD Creator, or any such CD writing program) with the Ghost boot disk as the source. Set your PC to boot from the CD ROM, and use the Ghost bootable CD to start your image program (that's what I do). Floppies can get corrupted, and the CDR will probably last longer. Just a suggestion.