kaletonto wrote on Nov 28^th, 2006 at 10:11am:

Your first order of business is to absolutely secure the contents of the failing MASTER HDD.  The most sure and certain way I know of is to: (1) hook up your external HDD in the manner which is suitable for Windows - not necessarily for the DOS mode; (2) set up your BIOS where your optical drive is first in the boot order; (3) use the installation CD for Norton Ghost 10 to simply boot from the CD itself which will put you in a Windows XP Preinstalled Environment; (4) immediately engage the legacy Ghost Backup/Restore "cold-imaging" procedures by following the path which will bypass any DOS-related USB mass-storage device glitches; and (5) perform a "(whole)disk-to-image" Ghost Backup of your failing HDD to store on your external HDD.

In essence, this procedure uses (an alternate name for ) from Norton Ghost Version 8.2 to allow both immediate creation of Ghost Backup images or the converse Recovery of such images that are in fact totally compatible and interchangeable with those *.gho/*.ghs files created with the of Norton Ghost 2003 -

but not with those created with Ghost 9, Ghost 10.0, or Save & Restore during "hot-imaging".

Albeit it is indeed slow to load, the installation CD bears the "cold-imaging" Windows-compatible
Ver 8.2 which is exceedingly robust and has worked superbly for me on a failing system when even Norton Ghost 2003 could only spit out error messages.

CLICK HERE to view my preferred - but admittedly convoluted - "path-less-traveled" of using on a BartPE-XPE (reatogo edition) CD to generate Norton Ghost 2003-compatible files .

kaletonto wrote on Nov 28^th, 2006 at 10:11am:

Do not misundertand my recommendation.  I am not trying to wean you away from "hot-imaging", but instead I am urging you to immediately perform a "field-expedient safeguard".  Once that is done, you can relax and proceed at leisure in whatever manner you choose, i.e, perhaps even to consider using Norton Ghost Ver 8.2 to perform a
"(whole)disk-to-(whole)disk" Clone to your replacement HDD.  Note in the image below that Ghost Ver 8.2 has ancillary modes to deal with critical situations.

Brian wrote on Nov 28^th, 2006 at 1:15pm:


Thanks for the reply.

I am going to try and save the data first and then I will see if I can get the latest error messages and post them for your review.
Some of the old ones I had are as follows:
Error EC8F17B7
       E7C3000F
       EBAB03F1
Going back from memory which isn't very good, these messages indicated I had bad sectors which I tried to fix with chkdsk and two or three other ways that were suggested in the many threads that I read before finally giving up. I am pretty dedicated, and I spent at least 40-50 hours reading and trying to figure it out. I didn't want to keep bothering you, since you were good enough to get ghost running for me the first time. This time sounds absurd but I am retired and do have the time when the chores (small kennel) are done.

Thks
Harold

kaletonto wrote on Nov 28^th, 2006 at 6:11pm:

I am assuming that we are both talking about legacy Norton Ghost Version 8.2 running in a Windows Preinstalled Environment as opposed to "hot-imaging" Norton Ghost 10.  If that is indeed the case, then I think what you wish to do is a legacy "disk-to-image" Norton Ghost Backup as opposed to a legacy "disk-to-disk" Norton Ghost Clone.  Where some folks misinterpret what I am saying is by failing to thoroughly comprehend that "disk-to-image" in the legacy Norton Ghost lexicon means the physical HDD itself with all partitions - hidden or otherwise - are to be preserved.  Some of these may be one or more logical drives inside an extended partition.

The legacy Ghost Backup will consist of a series of 2GB files with the extensions *.gho/*.ghs.  Be advised that when the time comes to perform a legacy "image-to-disk" Norton Ghost Restore, the result is a process where the whole-disk Backup image overrides and overwrites pre-existing drive letter assignments, partitions, file file system formats, and logical drives (if any) on the Destination HDD.

Brian wrote on Nov 28^th, 2006 at 1:15pm:


Tried to run ghost 10 and got these errors:
Cannot create recovery points
Error-EC8F17B7
Error-E7C3000F Cannot read 4112 sectors starting at LBA23800768
Error-EBAB03F1 Data error

The computer has been shut off for 4 days until this morning and the noise has gone.

I shut it back off and will wait until I hear from my posts.
thks   Harold

kaletonto

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Did the *Legacy* image complete without errors? 

Did you run the *Integrity* check on that image file?

kaletonto wrote on Nov 29^th, 2006 at 11:00am:

Not really. The Ghost 8.2 image you have created will be fine. Go back into the Recovery Environment and run a "Check". 
Local > Check > Image file.

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Yes. Boot to the Ghost CD and use the Ghost 8.2 prog.
Local > Disk > From image

We can sort out the Ghost 10 problems when you have the new HD working.