efrooney
Quote:I installed the new hard drive without partitioning it in any way. Otherwise, the computer I am trying to restore to is unchanged from when I took the bad hard drive out of it.
It's always difficult to understand what a person is attempting to describe when the description does not fit the problem described!
What I'm trying to say--you can not have the problem with Ghost that you are describing, given what you say you're trying to do!
Let's try again--
Quote:When I use Ghost's restore wizard ...
when I try to proceed I get a message which says, "Unable to find a free MBR slot in the Virtual Partition DLL. This is usually due to there being no free primary partition slots left on the boot disk."
The above quote happens when you are using Ghost 2003 in Windows--that's the only place you can use a *wizard*--and the only time a *virtual partition* is used is when you set up a Ghost procedure in Windows, and it is preparing to re-boot to DOS to complete the process.
So, you can not replace the system's HDD with a *new HDD without partitioning it in any way* and still have Windows and Ghost installed and running!
Or, did you forget to say this is a system with two HDD's--the OS HDD is fine, has Windows installed on it along with Ghost 2003--and it's a second *data* HDD that was making noise, and that is the HDD that has been replaced with a *new HDD without partitioning it in any way*?
Quote:"Unable to find a free MBR slot in the Virtual Partition DLL. This is usually due to there being no free primary partition slots left on the boot disk."
When one uses Ghost 2003 in Windows, in order for Ghost to do a procedure, it must close down Windows and re-boot to DOS. In order to do this, Ghost uses a *virtual partition* which it creates so as to not have any active presents on the OS or other partitions on the HDD--but in order for this to work, the OS HDD must have one of its possible max of 4 primary partition table slots unused and open for Ghost to use. You must have all four of the partition table primary partition slots in use on your OS HDD.
Quote:Hmmm...it's been awhile since you needed the files from the Ghost image file set!!!
Quote:when I tried to use the Ghost Explorer utility to do that, I got hung up by the fact that my image file is spanned over 4 CDS. The first CD seems only to have boot files, but when I tried to get Ghost Explorer to examine the second CD, it said that I needed to have the base span filed loaded before I could do that, which I think gets me back to my basic problem discussed above
Here's a sample of how to use Ghost Explorer with CD image files:
Opening spanned optical disc image set in Ghost Explorer
You will have to do a lot of disc swapping especially if the partition(s) is/are NTFS partitions--if FAT32, then probably less disc swapping. Another way to do it is copy the files of the 4 CD's to a separate directory on your HDD. Use Ghost Explorer to point first to the first file of the set in that sub-directory on the HDD, and then point to the last file of the set--it will load much faster--then you can extract the individual files from the image set once it's mounted in Ghost Explorer!
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