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Quote:is there an option to tell ghost 2003 to ignore bad sectors?
I think this may only work if the destination partition is FAT--might not if NTFS--quoting from the User Guide, p 155, 158, re *switches*:
Quote:-bfc
Handles bad FAT clusters when writing to disk. If this switch is set, and the target
partition is FAT, Norton Ghost checks for and works around bad sectors. This option may
slow Norton Ghost operation substantially.
Quote:-fro
Forces Norton Ghost to continue cloning even if the source contains bad clusters.
I've never had to use these switches--so can not say for sure what happens when you do use them.
Quote:i'm sure that ghost 2003 used to span automatically when writing to cd/dvd so why this option?
The default is to automatically span files, but you can turn it off--and then you have to manually name each span.
Quote:When i used my computer with a new hard drive and started ghost 2003 form the floppy i got a message along the lines of 'ghost has detected that this drive is not marked to work with ghost do you want to mark it for ghost - doing so will make ghost work more efficiently'
then the choices yes, cancel, don't mark for use by ghost
Ghost 2003 comes with the option of installing a Windows interface--it can be used to set up a Ghost procedure in Windows and then the system re-boots to DOS to complete the procedure. Drive letter assignment in Windows may not match drive letter assignment in DOS--so Ghost uses this *marking* to know which drive is which once booted to DOS.
Even if you do not use the Windows Ghost interface, the DOS version defaults to wanting to *mark* the HDD's, but as long as you use just the DOS based Ghost, it has no effect--except you can not *automate* a Ghost procedure in DOS--that *Let me mark the HDD's* screen will occur and you have to manually over-ride it if you do not allow Ghost to do its marking.
Quote:i sort of remember a message popping up when imaging a fat32 partition warning about a problem where if i restore from the image there could be a problem with a badly fragmented mft - does this ring a bell with anybody? Can't remember what the options were but if anybody can shed any light as what this means and what to do that would be great
I've not had that message--but vaguely remember it being mentioned by others in the past--I think you can use *PerfectDisk* and it will defrag the MTF.
Quote:i noticed i had a .ghs file created as well as the normal .gho file - it was on a 250gb empty drive formatted with ntfs so there should have been no files size issues and i didn't ask it to span - why the extra file? I've ghosted before and only ended up with 1 gho file?
If you ended up with a single *.gho* file, then you must have had less than 2 GB worth of data.
Ghost 2003 is basically DOS based, and DOS has a file size limit of 2 GB--so even if you are working with a NTFS partition to save image files to it, Ghost will *honor* the DOS file size limitation for compatibility.
Apparently, the Corporate DOS Ghost v8.3 has worked around that file size limitation--but that version is not available to the average retail user.