Can't get Ghost to ghost

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October 29th, 2001, 12:14 PM
pfoerste

Can't get Ghost to ghost

Using Norton System Works Pro 2002.
Made a boot disk using the wizzard.
Defragged both C:\ and E:\. Imageing 3.5gb E:\ has 10gb.
With boot disk in A:\ restart and ghost screen comes up.
Selected from menu Local=>Partition=>To Image.
Selected source partition from basic drive 1. OK
Typed in file name E:\xxxxxxx. Save
Set compression Fast.
Double checked source and destination. Proceed with Dump. Yes

After 75% done got a message “Insert next media” Enter, which is suppost to go on.
But I then got into boxes about another file name. Tried intering my own new file name and got an error message “Not enough room on drive E.

Every thing went well until the insert next media message. Every thing I have read (lots) all said just press enter and ghost will give it a file name and continue.

On E:\ I have a ghost file, size 2,097,138kb an 9.75gb free.

What have I done wrong?

Thanks for any help.

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Too much knowlege never makes for simple decisions. :D

KT7-R w/800 T-Bird No- Raid,IDE3 WD 40GB,IDE4 WD 20GB, 256MB RAM, Viper V550 AGP
SB Live, Win98SE
IDE1 LITE-ON 24102B
IDE2 52X CDROM
October 29th, 2001, 02:14 PM
MACH2

http://wwwpds.wustl.edu/computers/us...rton_ghost.htm

I do not believe in using compression for modern drives. For one thing it makes them doa if you wish to use any normal (uncompressed) chunk of free space available and the compressed clusters are usually irreversable. Of course I'm unable to determine what has or hasn't been compressed but the ghost copy to drive must be free and have the same geometry file size and clusters as the original. (speculating on a non raid system w/two drives of different gig'ers and how they are divided into drive cluster size.)

Mach
October 29th, 2001, 02:22 PM
flint005

im having basically the same problem ..... and mine is only getting to 56% the source partition is an 8Gb with 4gigs of it free . the destination partition that i was having it copy the image file too is a 10Gb with 9.9gigs free and it got to 56% and told me same thing to “Insert next media” so i tried to put it on another 10GB partition that has nothing on it and still wont work acts like its completely full so im stumped SIGH but will hopefully figure it out soon...

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October 29th, 2001, 03:06 PM
pfoerste

Mach2, are you saying to not use any compression? I do have 10gb that is decicated to this or other backups. But every thing I have read, and that is a lot, that you should use Fast compression, I tried high compression and it got to 90% and I got the same error message. I want to also ghost to a CD, but I have not read all the blurps on that yet.

I am now getting read to read the link that you sent.

Thanks for the response!

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Too much knowlege never makes for simple decisions. :D

KT7-R w/800 T-Bird No- Raid,IDE3 WD 40GB,IDE4 WD 20GB, 256MB RAM, Viper V550 AGP
SB Live, Win98SE
IDE1 LITE-ON 24102B
IDE2 52X CDROM
October 29th, 2001, 03:42 PM
pfoerste

I tried it with no compression and when it got to about 65% compression I got the same error message, not enugh room on E drive.
the file is there 2gb and there is 10gb free.

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Too much knowlege never makes for simple decisions. :D

KT7-R w/800 T-Bird No- Raid,IDE3 WD 40GB,IDE4 WD 20GB, 256MB RAM, Viper V550 AGP
SB Live, Win98SE
IDE1 LITE-ON 24102B
IDE2 52X CDROM
October 29th, 2001, 03:48 PM
flint005

i sure hope somebody comes up with the answer for you soon pfoerste we are in the same boat here https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
im gonna try it again when i get home from work maybe i can figure something out and if i do figure it out ill post it here...
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[This message has been edited by flint005 (edited 10-29-2001).]
October 29th, 2001, 03:55 PM
pfoerste

I have been trieing for 2 days to make it work. And I spent 2 days reading all the links to information on how to make it work.
Sure is flursterating!!

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Too much knowlege never makes for simple decisions. :D

KT7-R w/800 T-Bird No- Raid,IDE3 WD 40GB,IDE4 WD 20GB, 256MB RAM, Viper V550 AGP
SB Live, Win98SE
IDE1 LITE-ON 24102B
IDE2 52X CDROM
October 29th, 2001, 04:42 PM
flint005

if you are using the norton ghost boot disk then this may be your answer i found it at the norton website

This issue appears to be caused by an underlying DOS problem. You can
resolve this issue by switching your Ghost boot disk from PCDOS to
MSDOS. To change your boot disk from PCDOS to MSDOS, please follow
these steps.

Remove PCDOS:
1) Delete command.com.
2) Delete ibmbio.com.
3) Delete ibmdos.com.

Add MSDOS:
1) Sys the floppy with a win98 machine.
In a command prompt, type "sys a:".

Your boot disk is now using MSDOS.

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Stan's Bits & Bytes
October 29th, 2001, 05:43 PM
pfoerste

Yahooo! flint005, that did it!!
Thanks a bunch, I have been going crazy and blind reading every thing I could find.I sent an e-mail to symantec, but I will not hear anything for a couple days. How did you find that info.?
Do you have any nice SIMPLE information on how to burn the backup so if I crash I can just install the CD and it will reload the backup.
Of all the stuff I have been reading and trying to under stand. The IRS instruction book is not looking to bad.

Thanks again!!

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Too much knowlege never makes for simple decisions. :D

KT7-R w/800 T-Bird No- Raid,IDE3 WD 40GB,IDE4 WD 20GB, 256MB RAM, Viper V550 AGP
SB Live, Win98SE
IDE1 LITE-ON 24102B
IDE2 52X CDROM
October 29th, 2001, 05:51 PM
flint005

your welcome https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ i just kept digging around at the symantec website until i found that ....... im just glad it worked..... now when i get home from work im gonna have to try that myself and hopefully it works for me https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ https://discussions.virtualdr.com/

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KEEP THE CAGE SHUT!!!
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Stan's Bits & Bytes
October 29th, 2001, 07:44 PM
flint005

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS it worked for me too ...... thank you pfoerste for posting this question because i woudlnt have searched as hard to find the answer for myself lol im hard headed and have a tendency to bang my head against the wall for a while lmao
thanks
stan

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KEEP THE CAGE SHUT!!!
You guy's are so Amazing
Stan's Bits & Bytes
October 29th, 2001, 08:58 PM
MACH2

wouldn't be "forest" or fame?.. ([email protected])

regardless.. glad you got it going. Mach :d
October 30th, 2001, 11:26 AM
tenacious

The Ghost manual is poorly written. Here are some Ghost guides that may help in the future:

ghost.radified.com

www.pcnineoneone.com

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October 30th, 2001, 12:58 PM
pfoerste

Thanks Tenacious, I have copied them and read them. They are much better.

Thanks for the reply.

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Too much knowlege never makes for simple decisions. :D

KT7-R w/800 T-Bird No- Raid,IDE3 WD 40GB,IDE4 WD 20GB, 256MB RAM, Viper V550 AGP
SB Live, Win98SE
IDE1 LITE-ON 24102B
IDE2 52X CDROM
October 30th, 2001, 01:52 PM
tenacious

You're welcome pfoerste!

Let me add that I really love Ghost. It's a godsend.

Although the manual contains all the info it's not presented in a practical way. The experienced PC user can probably just read it and go. But for anyone else, especially average joe user, the manual can seem lacking. Therefore I think guides like those are a big help.

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[This message has been edited by tenacious (edited 10-30-2001).]