I recently purchased an HP Pavilion computer. I tried to clone the hard drive with ghost 2003 but in the process the computer locked up and I got an error message "Internal Stack overllow system halted.. I talked to HP support but they told me that ghost 2003 was not compitable with this computer and I had to use a recovery disk to get the computer back in operation. I can't believe that this system is not compatible with ghost 2003 (I have used it on an older computer with xp pro and it worked ok), but since I don't know just what the error message ment, I am afraid to try it again. Can someone advise me as to what this error message ment and how to get around it?

I was using the ghost program I had installed on the C drive. I was going to clone the C drive to an external hard drive so I was going disk to disk. When doing this it automatically goes to DOS or that is how it appears to me.  I could probably  work from the ghost program disk but I am worried about this internal stack overflow stuff. I don't want to reinstall a bunch of programs if I can help it.

Jerry Cothran

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Enclosure kit so HDD is removeable?

USB or Firewire?

Did WinXP see the external HDD before you started the operation?  (Shouldn't be a problem if you do a disk-to-disk clone as far as drive letter assignments--but make sure you do not re-boot to WinXP at the end of cloning until after you have shut down and disconnected the cloned external HDD--see *Pesky's Trick*.

Using the Windows Ghost interface forces the use of a *virtual partition*--and not all systems function properly with that.  Using the DOS Ghost version often solves that issue.

Not all enclosure/external USB setups are supported by Ghost's built in USB drivers--may have to try the Panasonic DOS USB drivers:

A Better USB 2.0 DOS Driver for Ghost + More!

NightOwl wrote on Aug 27^th, 2005 at 3:06pm:



BTW, this afternoon I intend to clone the MASTER 160 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA NCQ HDD on my Dell Dimension 8300 to a 160 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 IDE HDD mounted in a Metal Gear Box combo USB 2.0/SATA external enclosure kit via USB 2.0 - and you can bet I will be using my eponymous "trick".  Before I remove the non-bootable removable media to reboot in XP Pro, I will turn off the power to the Metal Gear Box.

Then, after I reboot I will restore power so that I can go into Partition Magic 8.0 to delete the 31MB Dell Utility partition on the cloned external HDD.  Next, I will reformat the bootable primary active partition formerly assigned the drive letter C: and then convert it to a logical drive to wind up with a 160GB extended partition with two NTFS logical drives plus a single FAT32 logical drive.  Ghost 2003 is friendly with the Metal Gear Box in USB mode but is very tricky with SATA because the IDE-to-SATA bridge causes CRC32 errors during Restores and Integrity Checks.  

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I am not real keen in the least with the notion of performing a Ghost 2003 "disk-to-disk" Clone on a sealed "purpose-built" USB external drive, and most particularly an Iomega product.  To my detriment, I learned in due time that my Iomega External 80GB HDD was preformatted as a single active primary FAT32 partition of a non-standard character.  Too late to do any good, I read the PDF users manual to see the advice against any partitioning of my device.  Later on, I learned that Windows XP systems will not generate FAT32 file system format volumes much over 32-to-35GB (CLICK HERE to view a thread on my Iomega travails).

One offhand possibility that does occur to me with this issue is a hidden utitlity partition being included during a Clone that could cause the Iomega HDD to go awry.  If that or any other weirdness were the case - and the Clone process achieved a certain degree of completion - the Iomega's ability to function with the stock USB 2.0 Norton/Iomega drivers could be irretrievably altered with some Intel USB 2.0 host controllers.  Nothing short of a "low-level format" and reinitialization will rectify the situation - or an adaptation of NightOwl's Panasonic Universal USB Driver routine, come to think of it.

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My confidence in Norton Ghost 2003 - based on real-life experience and not just testing - is so high that I would not be vaguely interested in the Iomega backup software that did come with my 80GB HDD.

Got to go, Katrina has me in her crosshairs.  She looks to be either the Perfect Storm or the Storm of the Century - nay, Storm of the Millenium - for those poor folks living down in the 'bowl-below-sealevel called the  Big Easy'.  They will be at DefCon 1 by nightfall.

Jerry Cothran

Probably Ghost's built-in USB drivers are not compatible with the HP's USB controller.

Might try this option mentioned before:

A Better USB 2.0 DOS Driver for Ghost + More!

I mention TI here:

http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_1a.htm

.. about halfway down the page .. along with other alternatives to Ghost.

I've never used it personally, but I have friends who use it and like it.

Any imaging prgm is better than no imaging prgm.

El Pecador has survived. He can be found here:

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