Another question about Ghost

[pmckinnie]

Hi,

I know there is another thread about ghost but this a different question so I don't want to confuse the problems.

When I setup to run ghost 2003 to make a copy to the 3d partition of the same drive, ghost will not see the partition. It does see the 3rd partition if I want to copy back to the primary partition. What is going on, as the copy that is there was made with ghost about 2 months ago???? The only thing that has been installed is XPSP2. If this is the problem, anyone have any idea what I need to change to get it to work.

I have made a backup copy to an outboard drive through USB 1.1. It took about 3 hours to copy.

Thanks for the help.

mac

[Train]

Have you checked the attributes of the files? They maybe hidden, except for coping back.

My D: is a clone of C: and I can overwrite it and do. 2003 is what I am using. I only image to cds though.

[DVOM]

Just a WAG, but maybe there isn't room to put an image on that partition. If so, Ghost won't give that option.

When I put SP2 on my 1.1G XP OS last week, it bloated it to 1.8G. So the new image is going to be about 300-400MB bigger than your last one.

Edit: If you're cloning then the clone is about 700MB larger than your last clone. How big is the partition?

[pmckinnie]

The partiation is 8 gig, which should be more than enough. I did run into a problem trying Aronis True image because the image is made on the "C" partiation and there was not enough room. So I tried ghost.

Thanks ,
mac

[DVOM]

A little more info pleaz,

are you imaging or cloning?

how big is your C partition and how much data is on it?

if you're imaging, how much data is already on the target partition?

are you running ghost from windows or from floppy?

[pmckinnie]

The partiation that I am trying to ghost to is 8 gig. Te "C" partiation is 7.05 gig of which 6.2 is used. The strange thing is that about 2 months ago, I made a copy of the "C" partiation to the "F" partiation and it worked using ghost.

I want to make a new copy (clone) now as I have added sp2 and want that included in the backup.

Thanks mac

[DVOM]

I'm guessing that you're running Ghost from a floppy. Try it from windows, see if it'll give an indication of why it doesn't want to clone to that partition.