Problem with ghost - little help here...

[The Sauce]

Trying to image my 13 gig IBM to my new 45 gig Maxtor. Both masters on separate channels. Copies the whole drive until the very very end when its copying the root directory files at which point ghost crashes and the system reboots. Any ideas?

 

[Radboy]

Snatch,

have latest version? .. Ghost 2001?

 

[dl]

file system? operating system?

 

[jblaschke]

I believe that you need a recent version of Ghost (v6.0+) to image to/from drives of different sizes. Also make sure you are using ghost.exe in Dos mode from a boot floppy.

 

[Leo]

Have ghost log errors to a file and view it. Unless you aren't having it auto restart, I doubt ghost is crashing, rather encountering errors and then doing the automatic reboot. What is likely happening is that there are paths longer than the dos limitation of characters. Make sure you don't have a ton of nested directories anywhere (press * at the root of the hard drive in explorer. If you are sure about the data integrity, then just disable error checking. I forget the switch atm, but ghost has good document so it should be easy to find. Maybe -i or -f. Even ghost 5.xc could handle copying from different size disks.(just expands to fill the partition)

If you have a new maxtor, just use the maxtor software to copy the hard drive to the new one. Worked great when I transferred data from a WD 13 gig to a 20 Gig maxtor. Maxblast.

 

[The Sauce]

Oh cool, great info all. I knew I could count on you. I actually have version 5.1 (thanks Rad) but I will try all that stuff. I didn't realize that there was a utility on the maxtor disk. I'll let you know how it goes.

BTW - Win 98/FAT32