Ghost 2002 Problem

[Alienware_Dude]

Okay, I'm trying to make an image of my hard drive. I booted into Ghost using the floppy, and selected to image it using High compression to CD-Rs. It says that it has to span it over several, as the image file is about 4.8GB in size. I go through the process, and at the end it says 'Dump completed successfully'. However, when I try to view the image in Ghost Explorer, this is what happens: I ripped all the images to my HDD so I wouldn't have to put in a bunch of CDs just to view the image, and when I point GE to the first image file, it tells me that it's an NTFS image spanned over 5 segments, do I really want to open it? I say Yes, and it gives me 'Cannot load image: data missing or corrupted', and it won't load the image. When I point it to the second image segment, it says 'this is an image segment file, please load the base image file'. I'm stuck, and I don't think I'll be able to load this image to my HDD if I need to. Any ideas? Note: all error messages are approximated, I'm not at my computer right now.

[Doobie]

Originally Posted by Alienware_Dude Okay, I'm trying to make an image of my hard drive. I booted into Ghost using the floppy, and selected to image it using High compression to CD-Rs. It says that it has to span it over several, as the image file is about 4.8GB in size. I go through the process, and at the end it says 'Dump completed successfully'. However, when I try to view the image in Ghost Explorer, this is what happens: I ripped all the images to my HDD so I wouldn't have to put in a bunch of CDs just to view the image, and when I point GE to the first image file, it tells me that it's an NTFS image spanned over 5 segments, do I really want to open it? I say Yes, and it gives me 'Cannot load image: data missing or corrupted', and it won't load the image. When I point it to the second image segment, it says 'this is an image segment file, please load the base image file'. I'm stuck, and I don't think I'll be able to load this image to my HDD if I need to. Any ideas? Note: all error messages are approximated, I'm not at my computer right now.

Try Checking the integrity of the images and if its bad well then you have no choice but to backup again. Ghost does fail on occasions. I learned my lesson when I never checked the integrity and when I needed it, it didnt work.

[Alienware_Dude]

How do you check the integrity of the images?

[Doobie]

Originally Posted by Alienware_Dude How do you check the integrity of the images?

Use the Bootdisks and load ghost as you did when you made the image. There is an option there to check the integrity of the images.

[Alienware_Dude]

Tried that, it won't see my CD-RW.

[Doobie]

Originally Posted by Alienware_Dude Tried that, it won't see my CD-RW.

Are you using boot disks that ghost makes? I believe its two. I dont use those... I usually make a bootable win9x cd and add the ghost.exe to it. Im thinking that maybe the bootdisks dont loead cd drivers. Do you know if it does? If it doenst try making a bootable 9x cd with ghost.exe in it and give it another try.

[Alienware_Dude]

I made another image, only this one took 10 CD-Rs, and it STILL isn't working! I'm pretty sure the Ghost floppy loads CD-ROM drivers, because it would need 'em to be able to burn the discs in the first place. I think this calls for an e-mail to Symantec.

[Alienware_Dude]

Boy, do I feel dumb - it turns out I had created the wrong type of boot disk, and that's why I couldn't see my CD-RW when I tried to verify the image. I created a boot floppy with CD-ROM support, and the image verified okay, but that doesn't explain why I can't load it into Ghost Explorer. All Symantec says is rip the image files to my hard drive from the CD-Rs, but I've done that and it still doesn't work. Maybe I should try and restore the image to my external HDD, just to make certain that it will work when I need it to.