highrisemech
07-02-2002, 09:11 PM
Please bear with me here.
Sorry everybody I was not sure which catagory to post this in.
It all started trying to set up a dual boot. I already had WIN ME set up on the system on one partition, then I tried to load Win2000 Pro on a logical drive in the extended partition.
Everything went fine till the set up was detecting hardware then it stopped and gave me an error (Problem with hardware contact vendor). Well I figured it was because I was trying to install onto a logical drive. At this point I was able to reboot to the OS choices as to which I was able to get into Win ME. Then I decided to use Norton Ghost 2002 to copy an image of my cdrive to cd's which I did. Then I ran fdisk to repartition my harddrive. OK. Then I tried to copy my saved image of ME back to the harddrive, no good the copy process stops about at the end of the first cd about 700mb mark and gives an error that a file (GHOSTTERR.TXT)
is corrupt. Now I checked Support Symantec for Ghost. I read in the support section that the program will stop if it finds a corrupt file. Then I dug deep and found this -----
Recovering important files
If there are files in the image that you must recover, try opening the image file with Ghost Explorer to extract the files needed.
If you cannot extract the files, run Ghost Explorer from the command line with the switches -IGNOREINDEX and -CORRUPT.
Using -IGNOREINDEX
Ghost includes an index file within each image file, and uses the index to find the other files that are in the image file. The -IGNOREINDEX switch opens Ghost Explorer and tells Ghost Explorer to find the files by reading directly from the image file, rather than from the index file.
To use the switch, run GhostExp.exe from a DOS command line:
"D:\Program Files\Symantec\Ghost\Ghostexp.exe" -ignoreindex
You may need to change the path to match the path on your computer.
Using -CORRUPT
When Ghost Explorer encounters file corruption in an image file, it normally reports an error and stops. When you use the -corrupt switch, Ghost Explorer ignores the corrupt area of the file and attempts to find the next file in the image.
To use the switch, run GhostExp.exe from a DOS command line:
"D:\Program Files\Symantec\Ghost\Ghostexp.exe" -corrupt
Recovering overwritten drives
See the document Recovering a drive after writing over it with Ghost.
Preventing corruption while managing image files
To reduce the possibility of corruption while managing image files, use the DOS COPY command with the /V switch, which enables verification, instead of dragging and dropping with the Windows Explorer. For example, type:
COPY /V C:\IMAGE.GHO D:\IMAGE.GHO
problem is my dos skills stink.
I did do a clean install of Me to get my system back up but I would really like to recover this image since it has some files I need . This image spans 5 cd's about 4 gigs. There were no apparent problems recording the image, also I did not use compression. I do know how to point to another drive in dos but I've never copied in dos. I think I have to type copy or something in the command line. If someone computer savvy has the time to read this over and type directions what I should do exactly to recover I would appreciate the help. Also be advised It is not necessary to recover the whole image I'm basically intersted in recovering my AOL files. Everybody in the house is mad at me for losing thier favorite sites. Thanks in advance for any help.
Sorry everybody I was not sure which catagory to post this in.
It all started trying to set up a dual boot. I already had WIN ME set up on the system on one partition, then I tried to load Win2000 Pro on a logical drive in the extended partition.
Everything went fine till the set up was detecting hardware then it stopped and gave me an error (Problem with hardware contact vendor). Well I figured it was because I was trying to install onto a logical drive. At this point I was able to reboot to the OS choices as to which I was able to get into Win ME. Then I decided to use Norton Ghost 2002 to copy an image of my cdrive to cd's which I did. Then I ran fdisk to repartition my harddrive. OK. Then I tried to copy my saved image of ME back to the harddrive, no good the copy process stops about at the end of the first cd about 700mb mark and gives an error that a file (GHOSTTERR.TXT)
is corrupt. Now I checked Support Symantec for Ghost. I read in the support section that the program will stop if it finds a corrupt file. Then I dug deep and found this -----
Recovering important files
If there are files in the image that you must recover, try opening the image file with Ghost Explorer to extract the files needed.
If you cannot extract the files, run Ghost Explorer from the command line with the switches -IGNOREINDEX and -CORRUPT.
Using -IGNOREINDEX
Ghost includes an index file within each image file, and uses the index to find the other files that are in the image file. The -IGNOREINDEX switch opens Ghost Explorer and tells Ghost Explorer to find the files by reading directly from the image file, rather than from the index file.
To use the switch, run GhostExp.exe from a DOS command line:
"D:\Program Files\Symantec\Ghost\Ghostexp.exe" -ignoreindex
You may need to change the path to match the path on your computer.
Using -CORRUPT
When Ghost Explorer encounters file corruption in an image file, it normally reports an error and stops. When you use the -corrupt switch, Ghost Explorer ignores the corrupt area of the file and attempts to find the next file in the image.
To use the switch, run GhostExp.exe from a DOS command line:
"D:\Program Files\Symantec\Ghost\Ghostexp.exe" -corrupt
Recovering overwritten drives
See the document Recovering a drive after writing over it with Ghost.
Preventing corruption while managing image files
To reduce the possibility of corruption while managing image files, use the DOS COPY command with the /V switch, which enables verification, instead of dragging and dropping with the Windows Explorer. For example, type:
COPY /V C:\IMAGE.GHO D:\IMAGE.GHO
problem is my dos skills stink.
I did do a clean install of Me to get my system back up but I would really like to recover this image since it has some files I need . This image spans 5 cd's about 4 gigs. There were no apparent problems recording the image, also I did not use compression. I do know how to point to another drive in dos but I've never copied in dos. I think I have to type copy or something in the command line. If someone computer savvy has the time to read this over and type directions what I should do exactly to recover I would appreciate the help. Also be advised It is not necessary to recover the whole image I'm basically intersted in recovering my AOL files. Everybody in the house is mad at me for losing thier favorite sites. Thanks in advance for any help.