Ghost 2002 and Windows XP PROBLEMS! PLEASE HELP!

[djjoby]

hi everybody! my first post here. yesterday I was trying to use Norton Ghost 2002 to copy a hard drive that had two partitions (that were full,) to a new 80GB hard drive that I bought. I ran ghost 2002 by selecting disk to disk cloning. When it brought up the "progress" screen showing the actually transfer of information from drive to drive, ghost started to copy the first partition, just like it should. But then it popped up a box that said "Error. cannot read NTFS file. Run CHKDSK) all I could press was "ok". When I pressed "ok" it started to try the first partition again and the same thing came up again. When I pressed "ok" this time, it began copying partition 2 and was able to finish the cloning process at this time. When I exited ghost and booted up, I found that Ghost had setup the new drive in two partitions (just like it should have,) but in the 1st partition there was nothing and in the 2nd partition there was all the files that were suppose to be in the 2nd partition. I restarted and ran chkdsk to see if it could fix any errors that prevented the 1st partition from being copied. I then ran ghost again and the same exact thing happened again. I then tried to just go into windows and copy files from the 1st partition to the new empty 1st partition, and it started to do it until a box came up saying "cannot copy file. another user is using this file." or something like that and it stopped copying. I am not able to figure out any way I can get the original 1st partition copied to the new drive, Ghost will only copy the 2nd partition. What am I doing wrong? can anyone help me?
thanks!
joe

[kennel]

Are you using the windows version or dos version? You should be able in both to go to where it says disk or partition and under that is check either image or disk. Check the disk and see if that will work. Or you could start the old pc up with that drive and run both chkdsk/f and then in windows do the disk check maybe that would fix it so you can ghost it. Have you tried doing just by partition?

[djjoby]

i'm running ghost 2002 in dos. I checked "disk" to "disk" to copy the entire hard drive, but it won't copy the first partition cause it says "cannot read NTFS file" when it tries to copy first partition. I ran chkdsk several times, but it doesn't help. I haven't tried cloning just by partition, but why would it matter if Ghost can't even read the 1st partition to begin with?

[kennel]

You could always run ghost with the -fro switch. Sometimes if you do just a partition only you can get it to copy when the full disk won't. Don't you just love modern electronics?

[Zonie]

Due to the OS being XP, you need Ghost 2003 in order to do a ghost to another drive since xp likes to register all hardware installed in a machine.

[kennel]

I've used ghost 2002 on XP with no problems.

[djjoby]

I just used Ghost 2002 on another machine and it copied the drive just fine. Of course, it wasn't a partitioned drive like the one I am doing now. I haven't tried copying by partition yet, but I will and we'll see what happens....anyone else out there got any ideas???

thanks!
joe

[confus-ed]

I just used Ghost 2002 on another machine and it copied the drive just fine. Of course, it wasn't a partitioned drive like the one I am doing now. I haven't tried copying by partition yet, but I will and we'll see what happens....anyone else out there got any ideas???..

I'd try that (copying the individual partitions) as it depends what originally formatted the disk & what set the partition boundaries - Symantec get 'suitably vague' on this subject, but its a known weakness of ghost that it can't always deal with certain combinations of cylinder boundaries & disk geometries especially with any resize operations (which pretty much always happen if you ask ghost to use all the disk).