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TatorNightowl wrote in reply #1 above:
Quote:It looks like you ran this Ghost procedure from the Windows Ghost Interface.
But, in the original posting:
Quote:I restored a Ghost 2003 image from external USB drive using Ghost boot CD to a Dell laptop
My bad! I blanked out on that one! Of course you used a boot CD and not the Windows Ghost interface!
If you have a partition on the system you're working on that isn't part of the restore process that is a FAT based file system (i.e. a second partition that's not the OS partition, and you are simply doing a OS partition restore, or there is a second HDD on the system), or if the image source is on a HDD that has a FAT based file system (i.e. your external USB HDD), you can tell Ghost to write any error txt file to that FAT partition using a Ghost *switch* when loading the Ghost program. If your boot CD automatically runs Ghost for you, you should be able to *Exit* Ghost, and then restart Ghost from the resulting DOS prompt with the appropriate *switch* telling Ghost where to save the error text file to--you have to know ahead of time what DOS drive letter that FAT partition has been assigned, so you can tell Ghost where to find and use it. If you have already started Ghost, you can see what partitions are assigned drive letters in the DOS Ghost interface before *Exiting* to the DOS prompt.
The *switch* is *-afile=filename* where *filename* has the path and name of the new error file to create. So, if your external USB HDD is FAT and has been assigned the drive letter *X* in DOS, then you could restart Ghost with this command at the DOS prompt:
Quote:ghost.exe -afile=x:\err.txt
This should re-direct the Ghost *Ghosterr.txt* file to the X:\ external HDD with the name *err.txt*.
Or, if you have a second partition that is not the OS partition and is not being overwritten by the restore process, and it's FAT and assigned the DOS drive letter *D* when in DOS, then this command line to restart Ghost at the command prompt:
Quote:ghost.exe -afile=D:\err.txt
I see that you are talking about a laptop without a floppy drive--but if you were using a system with a floppy drive and you have booted from a bootable optical drive, the boot process uses the drive A: for the bootable optical drive boot files, but the floppy drive is still available as drive *B:\*. So, if you put a floppy disk in the floppy drive, and restart Ghost at the DOS prompt, you could use this:
Quote:ghost.exe -afile=B:\err.txt
And now the error file will be written to the floppy disk!