Ghosting Disk to Disk problems.

[Brian Kelsay]

Have you done this before on this PC?  Let me get this straight.  You are ghosting an image of D: 
to be saved to C:?  Did you have enough room on C: to save all this?  How big is the disk?  If the 
image saved correctly, you should be able to slave that drive in another PC and copy the ghost 
image off.   I usually use a ghost boot floppy or boot CD to do this kind of thing.  In fact, I 
have Bart's PE set up for this.  It requires a valid Ghost license though.  It was pretty easy to 
get it set up on Bart's.  I also added Nero so I could write to a CDR or RW.

Since you mentioned Disk Spanning.  I only see this when a CD runs out of room and you have to add 
another CD.  There is also a setting in ghost to break up the image into CD sized chunks so you can 
put it on CD later.  The parts are normally named automatically imagename.gho, imagename.002, 
imagename.003.  At least that is what I recall without looking.  I currently use Power Quest Image 
Center at work.  My guess is you ran out of room on disk1 and when it asked for the name of part 2, 
it also needed a new location w/ more space.  Likely what happened is it started writing  image.001 
over the stuff on your drive1.  Whoops.   Contact me via email at home later or IRC if I'm in there 
and I might have a tool at home that can recover.  No guarantees.

I don't know of any FREE windows recovery tools, if you mean recover deleted data.  Bart's is a 
good Windows rescue CD though.  You might try the Linux systemrescuecd.org.  They have a 25MB iso 
that may help you without actually building Bart's.

Brian Kelsay

>>> <> 05/14/04 12:08PM >>>
Hi everyone,

I'm at work ghosting from disk to disk, the first disk is primary, which is a
bootable hard drive that has ghost on it. The second drive is the drive being
backed up. So I boot the first one start the ghost process, everything seems
fine then it says something about spanning so I change the file name. Then it is
done, so I quit and at c: turn off the computer. Well after changing drives to
the next backup drive and reboot, BAM. Missing operating system. So I boot in
to xp and nt to see what is wrong with the drive, they say it is raw, and has
not been formatted. Well I need the 180GB of ghost images on it. What do I do?
Help me I hope it something easy to fix. Anyone know a free windows recovery
thing?