Greetings Board People.  I come in peace.  Please help.

I'm attempting to burn out an image to a maxtor external drive via usb2.0 using ghost2003.  I successfully created 2 images, but alas my drive burning mojo is dead.

I continue to receive "Application Error 29089"  Write to image file failed.

I'm using windows xp booting to dos.  I formatted my external drive with macbook's disk utility.  The file system on the external drive is Fat32.  What else??  Booting with a bootable cd with usb drivers loaded.  I can see the external drive in dos.  I run ghost, intiate the burn process, the error then appears halting the application.

I'm tired of banging my head on this issue.  Any suggestions?

ComputerGuy


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I successfully created 2 images, vs I continue to receive "Application Error 29089"  Write to image file failed.

So, what's different from when you *successfully created 2 images*, and now *continue to receive "Application Error 29089"*?


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I formatted my external drive with macbook's disk utility.

I'm not familiar with that prgram--are we taking PC or Mac?


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Booting with a bootable cd with usb drivers loaded.

What DOS USB drivers?

Which*bootable cd*?

Is the USB HDD hooked up to a HUB--or directly to USB controller?

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So, what's different from when you *successfully created 2 images*, and now *continue to receive "Application Error 29089"*

Lets see, the first 2 images are from dell latitude d610/d620
The failures occur with dell latitude d810/d820


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I'm not familiar with that prgram--are we taking PC or Mac?.

The utility is for mac.  Should I reformat the drive using a windows app?  I'd try anything at this point.  I am creating images for a fewwindows based laptops


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What DOS USB drivers?

98 bootdisk using USBLink, USB Stack driver, ver 2.5
to get into dos and also see the external drive


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Is the USB HDD hooked up to a HUB--or directly to USB controller?

Locally thru the usb port on the laptop.

Thanks for the response

ComputerGuy


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98 bootdisk using USBLink, USB Stack driver, ver 2.5 to get into dos and also see the external drive

Links?  I've not seen those before!


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Lets see, the first 2 images are from dell latitude d610/d620 The failures occur with dell latitude d810/d820

That does represent a major difference!  ;)

USB and DOS compatibility between on-system controllers and the external HDD units if full of potential issues--have you tried the native Ghost 2003 USB DOS drivers?

Here's an alternative USB DOS driver that has shown the most compatibility:

A Better USB 2.0 DOS Driver for Ghost + More!

Creating a custom bootable CD:

Creating Bootable CD/DVD's Without A:\Floppy Drive

Adding the USB DOS drivers to the custom bootable CD:

Adding USB to Ghost Boot CD

I'll definetly give this a try!!!

Thanks for taking the time out!!

I'm back folks,

Ok,
I've created a new bootdisk using the NightOwl instructions.  
I Booted to dos,
ran ghost
and received the identical error: Abort 29089

Without a plan I decided I had nothing to lose startin clean.
I zeroed out the drive.  -Wipe Drive Pro -
This morning I downloaded a utility and reformatted the drive fat32.
Booted to dos, ran ghost and burned out 2 images to my drive,
but
when I got to image #3 the error msg returned.  

Thinking there's possibly an error in the drive that I'm imaging, i tried to burn an image from another computer: same result.

I think the issue wasn't my usb drivers or my bootdisk....maybe it was my external drive all along.  A maxtor usb one touch.  

The 29089 ghost error is so generic "Write to image file failed"..It doesn't give me much to go on.  

My only hesistation is when I run chkdsk the drive comes back clean.

I'd like to verify it's a hardware issue before contacting the vendor.  
Any thoughts?  

Does my logic make sense?  

Any suggestions?

Thanks for your time!

ComputerGuy wrote on Aug 21^st, 2007 at 8:39am:

"... I'm tired of banging my head on this issue.  Any suggestions?..."

Well, consider taking another tack which would give you the same end result.  Should you be able to get your hands on either Norton Ghost 10.0, Norton Save & Restore, or the Symantec Recovery Disk included with Norton SystemWorks 2006 Premier, you can boot up with the factory CD to immediately engage the legacy Backup/Restore "cold-imaging" procedures by following the path 'Recover > Recover Data on My Computer > Recover using a legacy Ghost image'.  Following this procedure will yield the side benefit of bypassing both USB mass-storage device and - most, if not all of - those maddening SATA HDD glitches frequently encountered with DOS-dependent Norton Ghost 2003.  This procedure is independent of those boot capabilities of any other removable media or any HDD.

What you really are looking for is restoreghost.exe (an alternate name for ghost32.exe) which will allow you to both create Ghost Backup images or conversely Recover such images that are in fact totally compatible and interchangeable with those *.gho/*.ghs files created with the ghost.exe of Norton Ghost 2003 - but not with those files created with Norton Ghost 9, Norton Ghost 10.0, or Norton Save & Restore during "hot-imaging".

EP :'(

ComputerGuy


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ran ghost and burned out 2 images to my drive,   but  when I got to image #3 the error msg returned Thinking there's possibly an error in the drive that I'm imaging, i tried to burn an image from another computer: same result. I think the issue wasn't my usb drivers or my bootdisk....maybe it was my external drive all along.

So, it works sometimes--but errors on two different computers when using your USB HDD in DOS for storing Ghost images.


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My only hesistation is when I run chkdsk the drive comes back clean.   I'd like to verify it's a hardware issue before contacting the vendor.   Any thoughts?

If it checks out okay when booted to Windows, then the external HDD is probably okay!  Using USB in DOS has shown itself to be *cranky*--some units seem to work, but others have problems and issues--just not compatible with DOS drivers!

Using a USB external HDD in DOS is not a supported use of USB--USB was designed to be a Windows *standard* and not a DOS standard--so I doubt you will get too far complaining to the vendor!

I would try a different USB external HDD from a different vendor to see if it works okay--I have successfully used an Iomega 40 GB USB unit (I took that case apart, found a Seagate IDE HDD installed, and have substituted a 80 GB and a 120 GB HDD in that unit and they have worked just fine also--would not work with a 160 GB unit however!), an Adaptec enclosure kit for USB, and a Seagate 160 GB USB unit successfully!

Thanks for the response folks!

I'll report back with my findings