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[t_ashby]

I am trying to do a complete restore on my Vista64 machine using Ghost14.  I have used Ghost for many years successfully to restore individual files, but this is my first complete restore.  I have several images that I have tried, but in every case after the restoration seems complete, I get an error message stating something to the effect "Too many NTFS attributes".  At this point the PC is unable to reboot.  I have searched the forums and the only thing I have found is to do a CHKDSK.  I have done that and I am still unable to restore my PC.  However I have a recent windows backup that seems to work perfectly.  I am starting to question both my sanity and choice in backup software for all of my PC's.  Does anyone have a solution of explanation?

[Brian_K]

t_ashby,

I assume you are restoring to the same partition so this link may not help.

http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/Ghost-14-Error-EA3902DC-Attempt-to-handle-too-m...

Do you have another HD? Try the restore to a large unallocated space.

[t_ashby]

Brian

Thank you for the info.  I now understand the problem.  This seems to be a serious flaw in Ghost and I am going to reconsider my choice in backup software.  The partition that I am attempting to load this image on is slightly smaller than the partition that it came from.  It is the same physical drive and computer, but I have resized the OS partition a bit.  In this case instead of having 66GB of free space, the partition - after the image restore will only have 45 GB of free space.  If Ghost is unable to reconcile that issue, It's no better than the built-in backup software that comes with Vista.  Do you (or anyone) know if Ghost15 will correct this functionality issue?

[Brian_K]

t_ashby,

You are likely to experience this issue with all sector based image/restore apps. The target partition has to be large enough to contain the data spread. Does this diagram make sense? x is sectors in use.

Source partition...

[xxx--xxxx------x---]

Needs a target partition of this size, at least.

[xxx--xxxx------x]

Ghost 14 can restore images to a smaller partition if the data spread will fit.

You could get around the problem by restoring your image to a larger partition on another HD, resizing the the partition smaller, reimaging and restoring the image to the smaller partition on your present HD.

[t_ashby]

Ahhh... Now you have addressed the problem I am trying to solve.  So far I have not found a decent an usable solution to resizing a partition.  I have tried a few techniques and software programs and nothing seems to actually work.  I was attempting to work around the sector issue by re-partitioning and reloading my drive.  It seems the Microsoft universe simply does not want to cooperate with a simple request like efficiently utilizing my drives.  If you know of a software solution that actually works, please let me know.  It's hard to believe that Norton has abandoned these type of utilities in Vista/Win7.

[Brian_K · Accepted solution]

GParted is a free resizing app. Get ver 0.5.1

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

BootIt NG is what I use.

[t_ashby]

Brian

Thank you for the help.  I looked at GParted this weekend and didn't try it.  I'll give it a try.