Norton Ghost Woes!!!

[crazyjw1971]

Im running Windows 2000 Pro with 2 hard drives (NTFS format). When I attempt create an image, the damn thing only recognizes a: (floppy) b: (zip) and the CD/RW. ITS DOESNT SEE MY HARD DRIVES AT ALL! Is this normal? I thought ghost was designed to work with an NTFS formatted HD.

If its not supposed to, can someone recommend domething like Ghost that does?

Umm... strange thing... it does let you select the source drive, just not the destination drive.

Arrrrrgh!!!


HELP!!!

[twwabw]

What version of ghost? And, what do you mean it doesn't recognize them? What is the configuration of your drives? Are they on an Ultra ATA pci card? RAID?

Details please. Ghost works great with everything I've ever touched. I use it all the time. Are you booting to the CD?

Um, this is an original copy, right??

[crazyjw1971]

Original version. Ghost 2001 AND Ghost 2002. Onboard ATA-100 controller (Asus A7V133), NTFS formatted HD's (2 of them), jumpers in the right place (Maxtor drives), ribbons are good.

It recognizes them when it asks you for a source drive. But when it asks you where you want to save the image, it only shows a, b, and the CDRW drive. My "a" drive it the floppy, and the "b" drive is the ZIP drive.

I think its an NTFS thing, maybe. Hell... DOS doenst recognize NTFS right?

[twwabw]

OK- so, you're booting to the Ghost disc, right? You aren't doing this from windows, are you?

Anyway, you're changing to the CD drive, what do you get when you type gdisk? Does it show both drives? Are there multiple partitions on the drives? They're both on the ATA card? You don't have raid set up on these do you?

This is indeed strange, as I've never had ghost fail on anything.

NTFS is no problem for Ghost.

Are you chossing to ghost partition to partition, or drive to drive?

[jz]

I've never tried Ghost, but DriveImage does the job nicely for me.

[lost9999]

Try Imagecast

http://www.storagesoft.com

[YeOldeStonecat]

Nothing to do with NTFS....Ghost has to physically see the drive correctly first, you're not even that far.

What I do while ghosting, is always yank the cd-rom from IDE 2....plug my destination drive onto that ribbon cable. Leaving the source drive as IDE 1. Or you can do the reverse...but my point being I unplug anything from the second IDE port and plug one of the drives into that. Just keeps things simple and just about always works on the vast varieties of machines that I work on.

Next, from experience, I always FDISK and format my destination drive to set the FAT correctly. I've had a few ghosts which I thought were successful, only to blow up in a few weeks. So after I started FDISKing and formatting my destination drives....the problem went away. It's just worth the extra half hour for me to do so.

If when you reboot on a bootable floppy FDISK can see both drives (you have 5 choices on your main menu)...then Ghost will work.

[crazyjw1971]

After speaking with the techs at Norton, I found out that Ghost cant write in DOS to an NTFS formatted drive/partition. So I copied all my files from mt second HD to my primary HD and formatted it in FAT32. I'll let y'all know what happens.

[crazyjw1971]

Ghost cant write an image to an NTFS partitioned hard drive. Just wanted to let you guys and gals know...

D:

[czgu]

Someone told me that Ghost could damage your HD. I use DriveImage 5.0. If you wanna try it, you could goto my briefcase. I'll keep it there for (about) a week.

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/czgu

[Syclone_A]

are they working on a version that can, getting that software soon and i have just about all my hdd's with ntfs. thats both 2001 and 2002 that have that problem? hey YOSC would you recommend putting an image on a zip drive? i am not so sure about it just wanted your opinion........