WhiteTornado
Technical User
Hi,
Ghost was made of the primary partition of a 40Gb HDD on a Presario 2100. An external usb LG DVDRW drive was used to do so - reason was that the internal CDRW drive was not performing correctly. Using Ghost 2003 started from the floppy with usb 1.1 support added.
I put the image on one DVD, I got the successful imade completion message at the end of the ghosting.
My errors: I did not make sure to defragment the drive first. I did not check the integrity of the image file before throwing the partition away. I should have investigated if that was normal that a partition filled with 6Go worth of data would fit on only one DVD. This was the first time I used DVD to do a ghost, so I was on newer untested grounds.
Before I reinstalled Windows on the machine, I did several backups on a few CDs of the personal data.
But, to make an added security option, I did a ghost like mentioned above.
Now, it turned out the backups were not totally fine, some small portion of data were missed.
Since I created 2 partitions on the re-install, I had a 20Go empty partition to dump the image in there. When I attempted to do that, at about 89% of the job I got this message: ''Span Volume (1) Done 1660
Ghost needs to open the next part of the image. Please insert the next disk and choose OK or choose to Browse to select the next part of the image''
When I try to browse, I only see one entry on the DVD called ''Ghost CD-DVD image''.
When I looked at it in Windows, I could see 4 files, 3 of 1Go and one of 700Mo.
The result in trying to browse is ''Not a valid spanned file (522).
Since I really only need a few files from the image I tried the ghostexp.exe with the switches -ignoreindex and -corrupt, as mentioned on the Symantec site, but this freeze and nothing happens, it is totally unable to open the image.
But Ghost is able to decompress 89% of it, so I keep believing I could somehow extract a few files from it.
Someone in a forum mentioned that by copying the file on the drive ghostexp would work better, I tried with one of them but I get the same thing, the program jams.
I must get these files back, the silly part is I can see them roll under my eyes when ghost does it decompressing!...
Ghost was made of the primary partition of a 40Gb HDD on a Presario 2100. An external usb LG DVDRW drive was used to do so - reason was that the internal CDRW drive was not performing correctly. Using Ghost 2003 started from the floppy with usb 1.1 support added.
I put the image on one DVD, I got the successful imade completion message at the end of the ghosting.
My errors: I did not make sure to defragment the drive first. I did not check the integrity of the image file before throwing the partition away. I should have investigated if that was normal that a partition filled with 6Go worth of data would fit on only one DVD. This was the first time I used DVD to do a ghost, so I was on newer untested grounds.
Before I reinstalled Windows on the machine, I did several backups on a few CDs of the personal data.
But, to make an added security option, I did a ghost like mentioned above.
Now, it turned out the backups were not totally fine, some small portion of data were missed.
Since I created 2 partitions on the re-install, I had a 20Go empty partition to dump the image in there. When I attempted to do that, at about 89% of the job I got this message: ''Span Volume (1) Done 1660
Ghost needs to open the next part of the image. Please insert the next disk and choose OK or choose to Browse to select the next part of the image''
When I try to browse, I only see one entry on the DVD called ''Ghost CD-DVD image''.
When I looked at it in Windows, I could see 4 files, 3 of 1Go and one of 700Mo.
The result in trying to browse is ''Not a valid spanned file (522).
Since I really only need a few files from the image I tried the ghostexp.exe with the switches -ignoreindex and -corrupt, as mentioned on the Symantec site, but this freeze and nothing happens, it is totally unable to open the image.
But Ghost is able to decompress 89% of it, so I keep believing I could somehow extract a few files from it.
Someone in a forum mentioned that by copying the file on the drive ghostexp would work better, I tried with one of them but I get the same thing, the program jams.
I must get these files back, the silly part is I can see them roll under my eyes when ghost does it decompressing!...