I am trying to restore my Toshiba M45 Laptop from an external USB hard drive.  I am running Windows XP and I have a Ghost 12.0 system restore CD that is booting and functioning just fine.

When I try to restore from the most recent recovery image I receive the following:
Error ED800012:  The internal structure of the image file (CRC Check or Frame Header) is invalid, damaged, or unsupported.

Well I can browse the image just fine but whatever.  So I try the 2nd most recent image and at 39% it just stops, like the computer and the USB hard drive just stop talking.  The amount of time left starts climbing and the hard drive light on the laptop is not spinning.  After many minutes of sitting here doing nothing I can select cancel, but it tells me if I do so it will leave the target drive (my laptop hard drive) as unformatted.  It has done this 3 times in a row.  

I even ran the Toshiba recovery CD on the laptop hard drive and THAT worked fine, just to make sure I was trying to recover to an identically partitioned and formatted drive, in case that made any difference

If you might have any ideas, I will appreciate them.

Thanks Brian, initial answers follow.

Just a few questions.

How large is your laptop HD?  80GB
How many partitions on the HD?  1
How much used space and free space in the C: drive?  Not sure.  I ran the Toshiba Recovery CD but I don't know if that reformatted everything or not.  If so, its a small % right now.  If not, I think the HD was at about 40GB.
How large is your external HD?   80GB
Do you have another external HD?  Yes but I copied some files on it in case Norton didn't work.  I think this second drive is 120.
Do the images pass "Verify".    I need to check this.  I turned it off as it was taking too long.   I am trying to do this now.
You said you can browse the images. Can you mount them as a drive?  I don't know how to try this but willing to learn. 
Do you have partitioning software?  No.
Have you restored an image (recovery point) to this laptop in the past?  I did a restore many moons ago with a prior version of Ghost.  However at the end of July I started all over again (fresh from the beginning with a new hard drive and a new install of the Toshiba Recovery CD and started adding to it, so on this new hard drive NO and with Ghost 12, No.

Can you boot into Windows? If so, double click a recovery point (.v2i file) and the Recovery Point Browser will open. Select the .v2i file in the left pane and click the Verify icon. Does it pass?

Hosed, can't boot.
I can do a fresh install of Windows  from the Toshiba Resovery CD if it will help.

OK I am doing the steps you suggested and will post back with results.  It's about 1/4 through verifying the most recent image.

I belive I had verify turned off.  Toshiba was a little buggy with the old version of Ghost.  With the new version of Ghost I think I was running into a prob where verify was getting in the way of creating the files and I read a recommendation somewhere to just turn it off.  The files and directories looked good in browse mode and I could recover individual files so it seemed everything was in order.

Thanks for your help and I'll post back in a while.  I see you are in Australia, its Midnigh here, which means I have been at this for about 12 hours today.  Yawn.

The most recent image erred out when I tried to verify.

The 2nd most recent image got most of the way through and then the process just seemed to hang.  After waiting numerous minutes I figured it wasn't going to finish on its own.   I hit the cancel button and when the cancel completed I got a pop-up box telling me that the restore point is valid.  Don't know whether that can be trusted.

So I went to try the 3rd most recent restore point (the oldest I have which was created when I first bought Ghost).  But it just hung.  I am starting to think that there is a problem here with the communication with the USB Drive which is one of your possible approaches.

Ghost is hung right now still trying to open #3.  Will try putting them on the other external, wish me luck.

Crud again.  Cannot get image to fully copy from USB drive to hard drive of my other laptop.  It has said 2 mins remaining for the last 10 mins.  Uh oh I didn't think of the fact I might not be able to recover these files.

On my 2nd external HD I had an image from 7.29, its essentially a dupe of my 3rd oldest image.  I was able to fully verify that image from the ghost CD.  Therefore I am going to try to do a restore from this image, and then try to manually add in any other files to the extent that I am able.

I will keep you posted but am starting to doze off so I will likely have to continue my posts tomorrow.  Eyes shutting involuntarily here.

One final post, I am now posting from the machine I restored.  I am missing about a months' worth but I think I can still recover most of it piece by piece. 

I guess it must be something with that USB Drive.  However I was thinking that perhaps it could be worth testing whether it is a malfunction in the interface to floppy drive (both of my externals consist of a laptop floppy drive in a USB housing kit).  So I may try swapping the housings tomorrow just to see if i can't get the most current restore point up and running.

Thanks for helping me out tonight Brian.  I don't think I would have come this far along without your advice and guidance.  Checking out for now,

Dawn in Chicago