Norton Ghost 2GB limit???

[parallon]

I am trying to create a "Partition to Image" of a partition containing approximately 3.3GB of data on a Win98 machine. Both partitions are on the same physical drive which is a 10GB drive split into (2) 5GB partitions. During the "Ghosting" process within DOS mode, the process will stop at the 2GB range and inform me that the destination drive is full and that I need to specify a new media. When I point to the same partition that I was dumping to before, it will tell me that there is not enough space on the drive and to select another. Is this a DOS limitation, or is there another way around this. I noticed that Norton Ghost sees the full 5GB partition size when I orginaly selected the destination partition. I would really like to avoid spanning the image to separate drives. Any suggestions would really be appreciated.

Parallon

 

[2003netguy]

This is a file size issue. You can split the image into 2 different files and you will be ok.

ghost.exe -SPLIT=FILESIZE

ie. ghost.exe -SPLIT=650 will make a 650 mb file, then
ghost will prompt you when you need to specify a filename for the next file.

Hope this helps.

Dave Rideout

 

[parallon]

Thanks Dave, I will give it a try. I am assuming that when I go to restore the image, ghost will automatically load the next image (assuming that it is in the same location), or will it ask me for the path?

Mike "I used to think that the more that you knew, the farther you would go, then I realized that the more that you know, the more they use you."

-Me

 

[parallon]

Well, sorry to say this, but I am still having the same issue. I set the -SPLIT switch to equal 1500 in which the program quit at 1.5MB (of course) and then asked me to insert next media. When I selected the same partition as the previous, I still get the error message stating that there is not enough space (3.5GB left). I think that I failed to mention that all of this is being done at a stand alone PC using the boot disk.

Parallon "I used to think that the more that you knew, the farther you would go, then I realized that the more that you know, the more they use you."

-Me

 

[oppie007]

Carefully read about using Ghost here:

http://ghost.radified.com/

I think your problem is that you did not type in a new filename. However, that is a bad thing to do. As Ghost will not remember it. Instead, use the -auto switch which will tell Ghost to create the 2nd thru nth file names - which Ghost will remember. It takes the first few letters from your first file name and then appends a seq number, eg ABCD0001.GHS).

Use these command line switches:
-z means use low compression (or -z2 or -z3 for more compression)
-fdsp preserve signature (so on a restore, the operating
system does not think it a new drive.)
-SPLIT=2000 max size file before starting a new file
-auto automatically name each new file

You can add the -clone switch to make the process more automatic, but you still end up typing some stuff into the user interface.

When you use removable media such as an Iomega Zip or Jaz drive or CD-RWs, Ghost versions 5.1c and later automatically span the image across multiple disks. Do not use the -AUTO switch in this case (where you want the drive to fill up and have Ghost ask for another media). If the image file is too large to fit on a single CD disk, Ghost automatically splits the image file into smaller files when it detects that the first disk is full. Ghost does not require that you use the -SPAN or -SPLIT switch to split the image file in this case.