Can Ghost imaging be slowed down?

[cnull]

I have a HD that is going bad quickly. Right now I can boot to it, but when I try to run ghost to take an image it runs too quickly for it and causes it to crash. I have a data copy of the HD, but I would really rather just drop an image onto a new drive. I tried to send it to a file first and that does not work. I even tried to do it over a network just for the heck of it and the problem is that Ghost does not allow for any errors when it writes to gho files even when you use the FRO switch.

Thanks,
Creol

 

[rislejay]

Do you have a tape drive available? If so you can use the switch -tapespeed=x

Any way for you to throttle back the network speed either on the card or at the switch/hub? My protocol.ini located on the boot disk inside the net folder has the following lines commented out:
; LinSpeed can be set to 10, 100, or 1000
; LineSpeed =

If you change this to 10 does it help?

What about setting the span size to something really small and turning off automatic naming of the spanned image? -span -split=x -noauto
x is in MB

 

[cnull]

Thanks for the help. I actually got it to work after retrying about 10 times and freezing the HD. I never could slow it down sufficiently. But after leaving the HD in the deap freeze overnight and trying again it worked. I heard it on the Kim Komando show... LOL

 

[rislejay]

I've tried freezing a couple of hard drives before but I never had any luck. Glad it worked for you.