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Ghost 2003-Integrity check quits mid-test
Jan 16
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, 2006 at 6:20pm
I have been working with Ghost 2003 with great help from this site. I thought I had it all figured out but have run into a problem. I have saved my dual partition C drive image of about 8 gb on my thinkpad to a mapped network drive on another desktop machine. I successfully created a Ghost mapped network boot diskette. I also created the Ghost.exe file on the mapped network drive. The image seemed to be created properly. With Ghost explorer I can view all of the relevant files. I have tried to check the image with an integrity check using both the ghost.exe file on the mapped drive and the ghost software on the Thinkpad. During the integrity check it just stops at anywhere from 1.8gb to 2.5gb into the integrity check process. The integrity check fails at random points. Failing the check image test I am at a loss to figure out what is wrong and how to fix the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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If possible--place the image file set on a partition that's on a local machine--boot to DOS on that local machine and run the integrity test locally instead of over a networked drive--will it pass the integrity test now? (This helps rule out an image problem vs a network problem.)
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Thanks for your thoughts. I copied the ghost file from the mapped network drive onto one of the Thinkpad partitions and ran the Ghost integrity check from the Ghost windows menu on the Thinkpad. I received a successful integrity check leading me to believe that the ghost image appears to be properly created.
The thoughts about the problem being a network problem is difficult for me to diagnose. The Ghost boot mapped drive network diskette successfully saved the image to the mapped network drive using the ghost.exe file saved on the mapped network drive. Why it will not sucessfully complete the integrity check using ghost.exe on the mapped drive or using the ghost program on the Thinkpad is a mystery to me. It is almost as if the ghost.exe integrity check is timing out as it runs through its test restoration of the image. Another thought, and I am over my head on this, some function in the Thinkpad bios invovling the Thinkpad's sleep states or power management is somehow suspending the running of the ghost.exe integrity check on the Thinkpads hard drive. Any thoughts would be helpful.
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The integrity test runs much faster than the creation of an image--I'm suspecting that the network timing is off just enough to cause a break in continuity!?
Any power management feature should be disabled/suspended until done with Ghosting.
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Nightowl thanks for your coaching! I have solved the problem. The solution is Thinkpad specific but has general application consistent with your comment to review power management functions in the system bios. In the Thinkpad Bios I found an entry under the power management menu termed "supend timer". It was set to 5 minutes. Apparently the running of Ghost integrity check does not toll the timer for this function and after 5 minutes the hard drive was placed in suspend mode, terminating the operation of the Ghost program. Changing the time from 5 minutes to 30 minutes cured the problem and allowed the Ghost integrity check to fully complete itself. I also identified another setting in the same bios area that instructs the machine to "hibernate" instead of "suspend" when it times out. By selecting the "hibernate" alternative the hard drive did not stop working and suspend the execution of the ghost integrity check. Apparently Hibernate simply powers off the LCD display to conserve power. I tested both changes independently and they both cure the problem. With the bios changes, the Ghost Drive Mapping solution described on page 15 of Rad's guide successfully performed exactly as scripted.
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Thanks for the feedback--it helps us all learn! Glad you found the source of the problems.
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