OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure"

[Guest Gruff the Elder]

Double sorry. The web interface fooled me into first posting this in the

Media Center Edition newgroup.

 

I know this isn't XP or even MS, but Symantec is next to useless, especially

for an 5-year-old product, and there is very little traffic in the

symantec.support. ... newsgroup. I know there are Ghost 2003 users who hang

out here, so here's hoping ...

 

I had been happily using Ghost 2003 on XP Pro sp3 to make images to a

partition on a secondary internal drive. I bought a WD 500 GB USB external

drive. It works fine with other apps, including Acronis TI. But Ghost 2003

crashes immediately after starting PC-DOS with Error Number 29004 "Read

sector failure, result = 1, drive = 2, sectors 6291519 to 6291521." There

are 3 physical hard drives in the system - 2 inside the case and 1 USB.

 

I *think* the problem is that the USB drivers that came with Ghost 2003

can't access the newer USB drive. However, Ghost crashes now even if I

direct the images back to the internal drive.

 

The first time I tried to do this, Ghost took me to the "Add Ghost Disk

Identification" wizard. So I think that now Ghost is failing when it tries

to access one of its "identified" disks.

 

How can I "un-identify" the USB drive as far as Ghost is concerned? (Or even

better, can anyone suggest how I tell Ghost to use better USB drivers?)

 

I've run chkdsk /F on all drives (and all partitions); I've uninstalled and

reinstalled Ghost 2003. These efforts don't help.

[Guest JS]

Re: OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure"

 

See if this is of any help: http://ghost.radified.com/external_drive.htm

 

JS

 

"Gruff the Elder" <GrufftheElder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:A434FBF1-6B56-40A8-8A14-EF90FE709308@microsoft.com...

> Double sorry. The web interface fooled me into first posting this in the

> Media Center Edition newgroup.

>

> I know this isn't XP or even MS, but Symantec is next to useless,

> especially

> for an 5-year-old product, and there is very little traffic in the

> symantec.support. ... newsgroup. I know there are Ghost 2003 users who

> hang

> out here, so here's hoping ...

>

> I had been happily using Ghost 2003 on XP Pro sp3 to make images to a

> partition on a secondary internal drive. I bought a WD 500 GB USB

> external

> drive. It works fine with other apps, including Acronis TI. But Ghost

> 2003

> crashes immediately after starting PC-DOS with Error Number 29004 "Read

> sector failure, result = 1, drive = 2, sectors 6291519 to 6291521." There

> are 3 physical hard drives in the system - 2 inside the case and 1 USB.

>

> I *think* the problem is that the USB drivers that came with Ghost 2003

> can't access the newer USB drive. However, Ghost crashes now even if I

> direct the images back to the internal drive.

>

> The first time I tried to do this, Ghost took me to the "Add Ghost Disk

> Identification" wizard. So I think that now Ghost is failing when it

> tries

> to access one of its "identified" disks.

>

> How can I "un-identify" the USB drive as far as Ghost is concerned? (Or

> even

> better, can anyone suggest how I tell Ghost to use better USB drivers?)

>

> I've run chkdsk /F on all drives (and all partitions); I've uninstalled

> and

> reinstalled Ghost 2003. These efforts don't help.

>

[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Re: OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure"

 

>Double sorry. The web interface fooled me into first posting this in the

>Media Center Edition newgroup.

>

>I know this isn't XP or even MS, but Symantec is next to useless, especially

>for an 5-year-old product, and there is very little traffic in the

>symantec.support. ... newsgroup. I know there are Ghost 2003 users who hang

>out here, so here's hoping ...

>

>I had been happily using Ghost 2003 on XP Pro sp3 to make images to a

>partition on a secondary internal drive. I bought a WD 500 GB USB external

>drive. It works fine with other apps, including Acronis TI. But Ghost 2003

>crashes immediately after starting PC-DOS with Error Number 29004 "Read

>sector failure, result = 1, drive = 2, sectors 6291519 to 6291521." There

>are 3 physical hard drives in the system - 2 inside the case and 1 USB.

>

>I *think* the problem is that the USB drivers that came with Ghost 2003

>can't access the newer USB drive. However, Ghost crashes now even if I

>direct the images back to the internal drive.

>

>The first time I tried to do this, Ghost took me to the "Add Ghost Disk

>Identification" wizard. So I think that now Ghost is failing when it tries

>to access one of its "identified" disks.

>

>How can I "un-identify" the USB drive as far as Ghost is concerned? (Or even

>better, can anyone suggest how I tell Ghost to use better USB drivers?)

>

>I've run chkdsk /F on all drives (and all partitions); I've uninstalled and

>reinstalled Ghost 2003. These efforts don't help.

 

My guess, being a Ghost user myself, is that you'll have to get a

newer version of Ghost than 2003. The more current version play nicer

with external USB stuff but it's a bit odd that even version 2003 is

having issues. Out of curiosity, is the BIOS fully up to date on the

machine? Sometimes BIOS updates from the computer vendors can

*sometimes* fix these goofy things. What's the version of Ghost? From

what I can tell, you should be running on version 2003.793 if it is

patched up. Is that right?

 

- Thee Chicago Wolf

[Guest Galen Somerville]

Re: OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure"

 

 

"Gruff the Elder" <GrufftheElder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:A434FBF1-6B56-40A8-8A14-EF90FE709308@microsoft.com...

> Double sorry. The web interface fooled me into first posting this in the

> Media Center Edition newgroup.

>

> I know this isn't XP or even MS, but Symantec is next to useless,

> especially

> for an 5-year-old product, and there is very little traffic in the

> symantec.support. ... newsgroup. I know there are Ghost 2003 users who

> hang

> out here, so here's hoping ...

>

> I had been happily using Ghost 2003 on XP Pro sp3 to make images to a

> partition on a secondary internal drive. I bought a WD 500 GB USB

> external

> drive. It works fine with other apps, including Acronis TI. But Ghost

> 2003

> crashes immediately after starting PC-DOS with Error Number 29004 "Read

> sector failure, result = 1, drive = 2, sectors 6291519 to 6291521." There

> are 3 physical hard drives in the system - 2 inside the case and 1 USB.

>

> I *think* the problem is that the USB drivers that came with Ghost 2003

> can't access the newer USB drive. However, Ghost crashes now even if I

> direct the images back to the internal drive.

>

> The first time I tried to do this, Ghost took me to the "Add Ghost Disk

> Identification" wizard. So I think that now Ghost is failing when it

> tries

> to access one of its "identified" disks.

>

> How can I "un-identify" the USB drive as far as Ghost is concerned? (Or

> even

> better, can anyone suggest how I tell Ghost to use better USB drivers?)

>

> I've run chkdsk /F on all drives (and all partitions); I've uninstalled

> and

> reinstalled Ghost 2003. These efforts don't help.

>

 

For what it's worth, I swear by Ghost 2003, for Windows 98. But for NTFS,

use Acronis !!!

 

Galen

[Guest Gruff the Elder]

Re: OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure"

 

"Thee Chicago Wolf" wrote:

> >Double sorry. The web interface fooled me into first posting this in the

> >Media Center Edition newgroup.

> >

> >I know this isn't XP or even MS, but Symantec is next to useless, especially

> >for an 5-year-old product, and there is very little traffic in the

> >symantec.support. ... newsgroup. I know there are Ghost 2003 users who hang

> >out here, so here's hoping ...

> >

> >I had been happily using Ghost 2003 on XP Pro sp3 to make images to a

> >partition on a secondary internal drive. I bought a WD 500 GB USB external

> >drive. It works fine with other apps, including Acronis TI. But Ghost 2003

> >crashes immediately after starting PC-DOS with Error Number 29004 "Read

> >sector failure, result = 1, drive = 2, sectors 6291519 to 6291521." There

> >are 3 physical hard drives in the system - 2 inside the case and 1 USB.

> >

> >I *think* the problem is that the USB drivers that came with Ghost 2003

> >can't access the newer USB drive. However, Ghost crashes now even if I

> >direct the images back to the internal drive.

> >

> >The first time I tried to do this, Ghost took me to the "Add Ghost Disk

> >Identification" wizard. So I think that now Ghost is failing when it tries

> >to access one of its "identified" disks.

> >

> >How can I "un-identify" the USB drive as far as Ghost is concerned? (Or even

> >better, can anyone suggest how I tell Ghost to use better USB drivers?)

> >

> >I've run chkdsk /F on all drives (and all partitions); I've uninstalled and

> >reinstalled Ghost 2003. These efforts don't help.

>

> My guess, being a Ghost user myself, is that you'll have to get a

> newer version of Ghost than 2003. The more current version play nicer

> with external USB stuff but it's a bit odd that even version 2003 is

> having issues. Out of curiosity, is the BIOS fully up to date on the

> machine? Sometimes BIOS updates from the computer vendors can

> *sometimes* fix these goofy things. What's the version of Ghost? From

> what I can tell, you should be running on version 2003.793 if it is

> patched up. Is that right?

>

> - Thee Chicago Wolf

>

 

The pc is a bit long in the tooth, and I haven't updated the BIOS recently.

I'm a little reluctant to mess with that, however, given that everything else

seems to work OK. I'm using Ghost version 2003.793. I agree that Ghost 2003

is probably too old to work with this USB drive, but at this point, I'd like

it to at least be able to work again with the images that are on my secondary

in-the-box drive. I'm going to check out the Radified site mentioned by "JS"

(I'd forgotten about that one). And I haven't yet tried the simplest

solution: running Ghost after physically disconnecting the USB drive.

[Guest Gruff the Elder]

Re: OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure"

 

 

 

"Galen Somerville" wrote:

>

> "Gruff the Elder" <GrufftheElder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:A434FBF1-6B56-40A8-8A14-EF90FE709308@microsoft.com...

> > Double sorry. The web interface fooled me into first posting this in the

> > Media Center Edition newgroup.

> >

> > I know this isn't XP or even MS, but Symantec is next to useless,

> > especially

> > for an 5-year-old product, and there is very little traffic in the

> > symantec.support. ... newsgroup. I know there are Ghost 2003 users who

> > hang

> > out here, so here's hoping ...

> >

> > I had been happily using Ghost 2003 on XP Pro sp3 to make images to a

> > partition on a secondary internal drive. I bought a WD 500 GB USB

> > external

> > drive. It works fine with other apps, including Acronis TI. But Ghost

> > 2003

> > crashes immediately after starting PC-DOS with Error Number 29004 "Read

> > sector failure, result = 1, drive = 2, sectors 6291519 to 6291521." There

> > are 3 physical hard drives in the system - 2 inside the case and 1 USB.

> >

> > I *think* the problem is that the USB drivers that came with Ghost 2003

> > can't access the newer USB drive. However, Ghost crashes now even if I

> > direct the images back to the internal drive.

> >

> > The first time I tried to do this, Ghost took me to the "Add Ghost Disk

> > Identification" wizard. So I think that now Ghost is failing when it

> > tries

> > to access one of its "identified" disks.

> >

> > How can I "un-identify" the USB drive as far as Ghost is concerned? (Or

> > even

> > better, can anyone suggest how I tell Ghost to use better USB drivers?)

> >

> > I've run chkdsk /F on all drives (and all partitions); I've uninstalled

> > and

> > reinstalled Ghost 2003. These efforts don't help.

> >

>

> For what it's worth, I swear by Ghost 2003, for Windows 98. But for NTFS,

> use Acronis !!!

>

> Galen

>

 

I've generally switched to Acronis, but I was hoping to be able to use some

of the Ghost images on my internal drive. Oh well, maybe I'll just reclaim

that disk space and move on.

[Guest Gruff the Elder]

Re: OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure"

 

Thanks for the suggestion. There seem to be several items of potential

interest there. I'll check them out.

 

"JS" wrote:

> See if this is of any help: http://ghost.radified.com/external_drive.htm

>

> JS

>

> "Gruff the Elder" <GrufftheElder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:A434FBF1-6B56-40A8-8A14-EF90FE709308@microsoft.com...

> > Double sorry. The web interface fooled me into first posting this in the

> > Media Center Edition newgroup.

> >

> > I know this isn't XP or even MS, but Symantec is next to useless,

> > especially

> > for an 5-year-old product, and there is very little traffic in the

> > symantec.support. ... newsgroup. I know there are Ghost 2003 users who

> > hang

> > out here, so here's hoping ...

> >

> > I had been happily using Ghost 2003 on XP Pro sp3 to make images to a

> > partition on a secondary internal drive. I bought a WD 500 GB USB

> > external

> > drive. It works fine with other apps, including Acronis TI. But Ghost

> > 2003

> > crashes immediately after starting PC-DOS with Error Number 29004 "Read

> > sector failure, result = 1, drive = 2, sectors 6291519 to 6291521." There

> > are 3 physical hard drives in the system - 2 inside the case and 1 USB.

> >

> > I *think* the problem is that the USB drivers that came with Ghost 2003

> > can't access the newer USB drive. However, Ghost crashes now even if I

> > direct the images back to the internal drive.

> >

> > The first time I tried to do this, Ghost took me to the "Add Ghost Disk

> > Identification" wizard. So I think that now Ghost is failing when it

> > tries

> > to access one of its "identified" disks.

> >

> > How can I "un-identify" the USB drive as far as Ghost is concerned? (Or

> > even

> > better, can anyone suggest how I tell Ghost to use better USB drivers?)

> >

> > I've run chkdsk /F on all drives (and all partitions); I've uninstalled

> > and

> > reinstalled Ghost 2003. These efforts don't help.

> >

>

>

>

[Guest Milt]

Re: OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure"

 

Quote: "I was hoping to be able to use some of the Ghost images on my

internal drive."

 

Gruff,

 

I'm using Ghost 10. I know that Ghost 10 is backward compatible. My

manual says "...will restore images from Ghost 2003 files." I think they're

up to Ghost 12 now. I'd check with Symantec. A newer version may solve your

problems too.

 

I'm happier with Ghost 10 than I was with 2003 or previous versions.

 

Milt

 

 

"Gruff the Elder" wrote:

>

>

> "Galen Somerville" wrote:

>

> >

> > "Gruff the Elder" <GrufftheElder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> > news:A434FBF1-6B56-40A8-8A14-EF90FE709308@microsoft.com...

> > > Double sorry. The web interface fooled me into first posting this in the

> > > Media Center Edition newgroup.

> > >

> > > I know this isn't XP or even MS, but Symantec is next to useless,

> > > especially

> > > for an 5-year-old product, and there is very little traffic in the

> > > symantec.support. ... newsgroup. I know there are Ghost 2003 users who

> > > hang

> > > out here, so here's hoping ...

> > >

> > > I had been happily using Ghost 2003 on XP Pro sp3 to make images to a

> > > partition on a secondary internal drive. I bought a WD 500 GB USB

> > > external

> > > drive. It works fine with other apps, including Acronis TI. But Ghost

> > > 2003

> > > crashes immediately after starting PC-DOS with Error Number 29004 "Read

> > > sector failure, result = 1, drive = 2, sectors 6291519 to 6291521." There

> > > are 3 physical hard drives in the system - 2 inside the case and 1 USB.

> > >

> > > I *think* the problem is that the USB drivers that came with Ghost 2003

> > > can't access the newer USB drive. However, Ghost crashes now even if I

> > > direct the images back to the internal drive.

> > >

> > > The first time I tried to do this, Ghost took me to the "Add Ghost Disk

> > > Identification" wizard. So I think that now Ghost is failing when it

> > > tries

> > > to access one of its "identified" disks.

> > >

> > > How can I "un-identify" the USB drive as far as Ghost is concerned? (Or

> > > even

> > > better, can anyone suggest how I tell Ghost to use better USB drivers?)

> > >

> > > I've run chkdsk /F on all drives (and all partitions); I've uninstalled

> > > and

> > > reinstalled Ghost 2003. These efforts don't help.

> > >

> >

> > For what it's worth, I swear by Ghost 2003, for Windows 98. But for NTFS,

> > use Acronis !!!

> >

> > Galen

> >

>

> I've generally switched to Acronis, but I was hoping to be able to use some

> of the Ghost images on my internal drive. Oh well, maybe I'll just reclaim

> that disk space and move on.

[Guest JS]

Re: OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure"

 

Ghost is now up to version 14 and they do have a 30 day trial version that

may or may not work with the older Ghost 2003 image files. It ver 14

recognizes the older image files then maybe then some or all other data can

be reclaimed.

 

Norton Ghost

(has a 30 day trial but you can not create a Bootable Restore CD AFAK)

http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost14

 

JS

 

"Milt" <Milt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:F6DBDA87-4EF0-411F-97D5-EE74D4176EBC@microsoft.com...

> Quote: "I was hoping to be able to use some of the Ghost images on my

> internal drive."

>

> Gruff,

>

> I'm using Ghost 10. I know that Ghost 10 is backward compatible. My

> manual says "...will restore images from Ghost 2003 files." I think

> they're

> up to Ghost 12 now. I'd check with Symantec. A newer version may solve

> your

> problems too.

>

> I'm happier with Ghost 10 than I was with 2003 or previous versions.

>

> Milt

>

>

> "Gruff the Elder" wrote:

>

>>

>>

>> "Galen Somerville" wrote:

>>

>> >

>> > "Gruff the Elder" <GrufftheElder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

>> > message

>> > news:A434FBF1-6B56-40A8-8A14-EF90FE709308@microsoft.com...

>> > > Double sorry. The web interface fooled me into first posting this in

>> > > the

>> > > Media Center Edition newgroup.

>> > >

>> > > I know this isn't XP or even MS, but Symantec is next to useless,

>> > > especially

>> > > for an 5-year-old product, and there is very little traffic in the

>> > > symantec.support. ... newsgroup. I know there are Ghost 2003 users

>> > > who

>> > > hang

>> > > out here, so here's hoping ...

>> > >

>> > > I had been happily using Ghost 2003 on XP Pro sp3 to make images to a

>> > > partition on a secondary internal drive. I bought a WD 500 GB USB

>> > > external

>> > > drive. It works fine with other apps, including Acronis TI. But

>> > > Ghost

>> > > 2003

>> > > crashes immediately after starting PC-DOS with Error Number 29004

>> > > "Read

>> > > sector failure, result = 1, drive = 2, sectors 6291519 to 6291521."

>> > > There

>> > > are 3 physical hard drives in the system - 2 inside the case and 1

>> > > USB.

>> > >

>> > > I *think* the problem is that the USB drivers that came with Ghost

>> > > 2003

>> > > can't access the newer USB drive. However, Ghost crashes now even if

>> > > I

>> > > direct the images back to the internal drive.

>> > >

>> > > The first time I tried to do this, Ghost took me to the "Add Ghost

>> > > Disk

>> > > Identification" wizard. So I think that now Ghost is failing when it

>> > > tries

>> > > to access one of its "identified" disks.

>> > >

>> > > How can I "un-identify" the USB drive as far as Ghost is concerned?

>> > > (Or

>> > > even

>> > > better, can anyone suggest how I tell Ghost to use better USB

>> > > drivers?)

>> > >

>> > > I've run chkdsk /F on all drives (and all partitions); I've

>> > > uninstalled

>> > > and

>> > > reinstalled Ghost 2003. These efforts don't help.

>> > >

>> >

>> > For what it's worth, I swear by Ghost 2003, for Windows 98. But for

>> > NTFS,

>> > use Acronis !!!

>> >

>> > Galen

>> >

>>

>> I've generally switched to Acronis, but I was hoping to be able to use

>> some

>> of the Ghost images on my internal drive. Oh well, maybe I'll just

>> reclaim

>> that disk space and move on.

[Guest Gruff the Elder]

Re: OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure" - Update

 

Re: OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure" - Update

 

I have no idea what happened, but I created a Ghost recovery floppy following

directions from a link in the Radified forums on the page that JS suggested

and on the 2nd try, Ghost started (although without any mouse). I was able

to start creating an image on the USB drive, but realized that because Ghost

was only using a USB 1.1 driver, it was going to take forever (35.5 GB). I

rebooted using the Ghost floppy and successfully made a Ghost image on my

internal secondary drive and then verified it.

 

On top of it all, when I got back to Windows, I tried using the Ghost 2003

Windows GUI (which is where this adventure all started), and this time it

re-booted to PC-DOS and successfully started Ghost (again with no mouse).

 

Other than starting Ghost directly from a PC-DOS floppy (and why that should

be different than rebooting into PC-DOS I don't know), the only other thing

that I can think of that might have cleared up the problems is that I

downloaded and ran the WD Diagnostics utility. Like chkdsk, this didn't find

any errors or problems, but perhaps the mere running of the utility did

something.

 

Thanks for all the help.

 

"JS" wrote:

> Ghost is now up to version 14 and they do have a 30 day trial version that

> may or may not work with the older Ghost 2003 image files. It ver 14

> recognizes the older image files then maybe then some or all other data can

> be reclaimed.

>

> Norton Ghost

> (has a 30 day trial but you can not create a Bootable Restore CD AFAK)

> http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost14

>

> JS

>

> "Milt" <Milt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:F6DBDA87-4EF0-411F-97D5-EE74D4176EBC@microsoft.com...

> > Quote: "I was hoping to be able to use some of the Ghost images on my

> > internal drive."

> >

> > Gruff,

> >

> > I'm using Ghost 10. I know that Ghost 10 is backward compatible. My

> > manual says "...will restore images from Ghost 2003 files." I think

> > they're

> > up to Ghost 12 now. I'd check with Symantec. A newer version may solve

> > your

> > problems too.

> >

> > I'm happier with Ghost 10 than I was with 2003 or previous versions.

> >

> > Milt

> >

> >

> > "Gruff the Elder" wrote:

> >

> >>

> >>

> >> "Galen Somerville" wrote:

> >>

> >> >

> >> > "Gruff the Elder" <GrufftheElder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

> >> > message

> >> > news:A434FBF1-6B56-40A8-8A14-EF90FE709308@microsoft.com...

> >> > > Double sorry. The web interface fooled me into first posting this in

> >> > > the

> >> > > Media Center Edition newgroup.

> >> > >

> >> > > I know this isn't XP or even MS, but Symantec is next to useless,

> >> > > especially

> >> > > for an 5-year-old product, and there is very little traffic in the

> >> > > symantec.support. ... newsgroup. I know there are Ghost 2003 users

> >> > > who

> >> > > hang

> >> > > out here, so here's hoping ...

> >> > >

> >> > > I had been happily using Ghost 2003 on XP Pro sp3 to make images to a

> >> > > partition on a secondary internal drive. I bought a WD 500 GB USB

> >> > > external

> >> > > drive. It works fine with other apps, including Acronis TI. But

> >> > > Ghost

> >> > > 2003

> >> > > crashes immediately after starting PC-DOS with Error Number 29004

> >> > > "Read

> >> > > sector failure, result = 1, drive = 2, sectors 6291519 to 6291521."

> >> > > There

> >> > > are 3 physical hard drives in the system - 2 inside the case and 1

> >> > > USB.

> >> > >

> >> > > I *think* the problem is that the USB drivers that came with Ghost

> >> > > 2003

> >> > > can't access the newer USB drive. However, Ghost crashes now even if

> >> > > I

> >> > > direct the images back to the internal drive.

> >> > >

> >> > > The first time I tried to do this, Ghost took me to the "Add Ghost

> >> > > Disk

> >> > > Identification" wizard. So I think that now Ghost is failing when it

> >> > > tries

> >> > > to access one of its "identified" disks.

> >> > >

> >> > > How can I "un-identify" the USB drive as far as Ghost is concerned?

> >> > > (Or

> >> > > even

> >> > > better, can anyone suggest how I tell Ghost to use better USB

> >> > > drivers?)

> >> > >

> >> > > I've run chkdsk /F on all drives (and all partitions); I've

> >> > > uninstalled

> >> > > and

> >> > > reinstalled Ghost 2003. These efforts don't help.

> >> > >

> >> >

> >> > For what it's worth, I swear by Ghost 2003, for Windows 98. But for

> >> > NTFS,

> >> > use Acronis !!!

> >> >

> >> > Galen

> >> >

> >>

> >> I've generally switched to Acronis, but I was hoping to be able to use

> >> some

> >> of the Ghost images on my internal drive. Oh well, maybe I'll just

> >> reclaim

> >> that disk space and move on.

>

>

>

[Guest JS]

Re: OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure" - Update

 

Re: OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure" - Update

 

You may need to copy the mouse driver to your floppy.

See: Getting the mouse to work in MS-DOS.

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000007.htm

 

As for starting Ghost from within Windows I suspect the mouse driver is not

being loaded.

The above article should give you a clue as to where to add the driver.

 

JS

 

 

"Gruff the Elder" <GrufftheElder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:75DB7ACE-E5CD-4B9F-8705-C85F1D3F5D85@microsoft.com...

>I have no idea what happened, but I created a Ghost recovery floppy

>following

> directions from a link in the Radified forums on the page that JS

> suggested

> and on the 2nd try, Ghost started (although without any mouse). I was

> able

> to start creating an image on the USB drive, but realized that because

> Ghost

> was only using a USB 1.1 driver, it was going to take forever (35.5 GB).

> I

> rebooted using the Ghost floppy and successfully made a Ghost image on my

> internal secondary drive and then verified it.

>

> On top of it all, when I got back to Windows, I tried using the Ghost 2003

> Windows GUI (which is where this adventure all started), and this time it

> re-booted to PC-DOS and successfully started Ghost (again with no mouse).

>

> Other than starting Ghost directly from a PC-DOS floppy (and why that

> should

> be different than rebooting into PC-DOS I don't know), the only other

> thing

> that I can think of that might have cleared up the problems is that I

> downloaded and ran the WD Diagnostics utility. Like chkdsk, this didn't

> find

> any errors or problems, but perhaps the mere running of the utility did

> something.

>

> Thanks for all the help.

>

> "JS" wrote:

>

>> Ghost is now up to version 14 and they do have a 30 day trial version

>> that

>> may or may not work with the older Ghost 2003 image files. It ver 14

>> recognizes the older image files then maybe then some or all other data

>> can

>> be reclaimed.

>>

>> Norton Ghost

>> (has a 30 day trial but you can not create a Bootable Restore CD AFAK)

>> http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost14

>>

>> JS

>>

>> "Milt" <Milt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>> news:F6DBDA87-4EF0-411F-97D5-EE74D4176EBC@microsoft.com...

>> > Quote: "I was hoping to be able to use some of the Ghost images on my

>> > internal drive."

>> >

>> > Gruff,

>> >

>> > I'm using Ghost 10. I know that Ghost 10 is backward compatible.

>> > My

>> > manual says "...will restore images from Ghost 2003 files." I think

>> > they're

>> > up to Ghost 12 now. I'd check with Symantec. A newer version may solve

>> > your

>> > problems too.

>> >

>> > I'm happier with Ghost 10 than I was with 2003 or previous

>> > versions.

>> >

>> > Milt

>> >

>> >

>> > "Gruff the Elder" wrote:

>> >

>> >>

>> >>

>> >> "Galen Somerville" wrote:

>> >>

>> >> >

>> >> > "Gruff the Elder" <GrufftheElder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

>> >> > message

>> >> > news:A434FBF1-6B56-40A8-8A14-EF90FE709308@microsoft.com...

>> >> > > Double sorry. The web interface fooled me into first posting this

>> >> > > in

>> >> > > the

>> >> > > Media Center Edition newgroup.

>> >> > >

>> >> > > I know this isn't XP or even MS, but Symantec is next to useless,

>> >> > > especially

>> >> > > for an 5-year-old product, and there is very little traffic in the

>> >> > > symantec.support. ... newsgroup. I know there are Ghost 2003

>> >> > > users

>> >> > > who

>> >> > > hang

>> >> > > out here, so here's hoping ...

>> >> > >

>> >> > > I had been happily using Ghost 2003 on XP Pro sp3 to make images

>> >> > > to a

>> >> > > partition on a secondary internal drive. I bought a WD 500 GB USB

>> >> > > external

>> >> > > drive. It works fine with other apps, including Acronis TI. But

>> >> > > Ghost

>> >> > > 2003

>> >> > > crashes immediately after starting PC-DOS with Error Number 29004

>> >> > > "Read

>> >> > > sector failure, result = 1, drive = 2, sectors 6291519 to

>> >> > > 6291521."

>> >> > > There

>> >> > > are 3 physical hard drives in the system - 2 inside the case and 1

>> >> > > USB.

>> >> > >

>> >> > > I *think* the problem is that the USB drivers that came with Ghost

>> >> > > 2003

>> >> > > can't access the newer USB drive. However, Ghost crashes now even

>> >> > > if

>> >> > > I

>> >> > > direct the images back to the internal drive.

>> >> > >

>> >> > > The first time I tried to do this, Ghost took me to the "Add Ghost

>> >> > > Disk

>> >> > > Identification" wizard. So I think that now Ghost is failing when

>> >> > > it

>> >> > > tries

>> >> > > to access one of its "identified" disks.

>> >> > >

>> >> > > How can I "un-identify" the USB drive as far as Ghost is

>> >> > > concerned?

>> >> > > (Or

>> >> > > even

>> >> > > better, can anyone suggest how I tell Ghost to use better USB

>> >> > > drivers?)

>> >> > >

>> >> > > I've run chkdsk /F on all drives (and all partitions); I've

>> >> > > uninstalled

>> >> > > and

>> >> > > reinstalled Ghost 2003. These efforts don't help.

>> >> > >

>> >> >

>> >> > For what it's worth, I swear by Ghost 2003, for Windows 98. But for

>> >> > NTFS,

>> >> > use Acronis !!!

>> >> >

>> >> > Galen

>> >> >

>> >>

>> >> I've generally switched to Acronis, but I was hoping to be able to use

>> >> some

>> >> of the Ghost images on my internal drive. Oh well, maybe I'll just

>> >> reclaim

>> >> that disk space and move on.

>>

>>

>>

[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Re: OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure"

 

>The pc is a bit long in the tooth, and I haven't updated the BIOS recently.

>I'm a little reluctant to mess with that, however, given that everything else

>seems to work OK. I'm using Ghost version 2003.793. I agree that Ghost 2003

>is probably too old to work with this USB drive, but at this point, I'd like

>it to at least be able to work again with the images that are on my secondary

>in-the-box drive. I'm going to check out the Radified site mentioned by "JS"

>(I'd forgotten about that one). And I haven't yet tried the simplest

>solution: running Ghost after physically disconnecting the USB drive.

 

Updating the BIOS is not a big deal really and should be done to

ensure it operates tip top. Even an old workhorse can still do some

duty with a simple checkup. From the page I read on Symantec's site,

the .793 update, which you do have, supports the ICH5 but how old is

the computer you are using and what is the make and model? It wouldn't

be too hard to figure out if this high capacity USB drive would be

supported with a simple update of some sort. Let me know.

 

- Thee Chicago Wolf