Have not used Ghost 15 for quite awhile. But when I try to backup my C: drive it seem it is not available. When I look at the Avanced tab, it shows the drive with a status of "Unavalable". All other backup cofigurations does not see the C drive, at all.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Mike
Here it is...
Thanks
Your HD 0 shows...(see below). When the file system size doesn't match the partition size Ghost can't see the partition. I'm not sure why this should have happened as you mentioned Ghost could see the partition in the past.
HD 1 is strange. It is a GPT disk?
I'll let you know how to fix the OS partition.
WARNING: End CHS does not match calculated end LBA in partition above. WARNING: Begin CHS does not match start sector LBA in partition above. WARNING: Partition above extends beyond the end of disk.
Have not used Ghost 15 for quite awhile. But when I try to backup my C: drive it seem it is not available. When I look at the Avanced tab, it shows the drive with a status of "Unavalable". All other backup cofigurations does not see the C drive, at all.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Mike
Not sure what thw partition is. Seems strange.
Mike
Let's hope this works.
Download BootIt BM. There is a 30 day trial usage. Unzip the file and make a boot CD.
double click makedisk.exe, next
dot in BootIt Bare Metal, next
dot in I accept the agreement, next
don't select Image for DOS (GUI), next
dot in Mouse Support Enabled, next
dot in VESA Video, next
dot in Video Mode 1024*768 - 64K Colors, next
dot in Partition Work (Don't put a dot in Normal), next
don't choose any Device Options, next
tick in Enable USB 1.1 (UHCI), next
tick in Align Partitions at 2KiB
tick in Use Windows 7 MBR, next
ignore Additional bootitbm.ini Options, next
select your CD burner drive letter (you can use a CD-RW or a CD-R disc)
Finish
Your BootIt CD boots to the Work with Partitions window
in the Drives field, make sure it is 0 - BIOS HD
select the partition (in the MBR Partitions area)
hold down left Shift on the keyboard and click Properties
in Additional Information is there a *Warning* File system ends at LBA ....?
if you see this warning type the LBA number into the LBA Information End field
OK, Close, Reboot
Does Ghost work now?
Brian, I used Boot BM with no "Warnings". This is what I came uo wth.
Name: System Reserverd
Parition Size: 100MB
File System: 7/7h: HPFS/NTSF
Bootable
Clluster size: 4096
LBA: Start-2048
Ens-206847
I did not make any changes with this program. I did not know
what to do next. Thanks, Mike
Mike,
I gave you poor instructions. There are two partitions in Work with partitions. You checked the 100 MB SRP. Do the same for the next partition which is Win7.
Brian, Thanks so much..I checked that drive and made the adjustment. The C: drive is now available.
I'm back with Ghost 15..You were great.
Mike
Mike,
That is excellent. I'm glad it worked.
Out of interest can you try this? Boot into BIBM again and in the Drives field, click the drop down arrow and choose 1 - BIOS HD. This is your second HD. On the left, just above the big Partitions area, does it say MBR Partitions or GPT Partitions?
For general interest here is an extract of partinfo just related to a GPT disk. It is similar but different from Mike's partinfo. One GPT disk was created in Disk Management. The other in BIBM.
Edit... I should have mentioned the OS was Win7 for the first and WinXP for the second partinfo. This explains why no drive letters are showing for the GPT partitions in the second partinfo.
Thats interesting.
Is that a 40GB drive that you made look like 2TB?
Yes, it is a 40 GB HD and I've no idea where the 2 TB entry came from.
Did you notice that partinfo does not show the legacy mbr correctly?
Look at "Disk 2: Protective MBR (Sector 0)" on both of them.
Dave
They are different. I'm not familiar enough with GPT to comment.
I'm not familiar with them either. For all I know partinfo may be the one showing it correctly if it's suposed to prevent older tools from messing with a GPT disk.
I also can't figure out what Ghost 16 would need to be able to support them. A 32bit PE disk, like a 32bit OS could use them as data drives but I don't know if being able to access them as data drives is good enough to create and restore images on the sector level.
Personally, I'm just going to stay away from drives larger than 2TB for a while. I still have some empty drive bays and unused connectors.
Dave
With Ghost 15 I imaged Win7 to a GPT partition. I then booted from the Ghost CD and restored the image. No problems. You wouldn't have noticed any difference from a MBR partition.
Edit... In case I didn't make it clear, both partinfo.txt are Ghost partinfo. Run from the Utility folder. One is from WinXP and the other from Win7. Maybe that's why they look different.
I thought the second one was the Terabyte tool because of the attachement name.
As far as GPT support goes, I was meaning Ghost supporting GPT drives over 2TB.
I would be interested to know if large drive like that can be accessed with a Windows 7 32bit PE disk.
I know you can't boot a drive like that with a 32bit OS but I don't know if a 32bit OS can support sector by sector access to the drive. If a 32bit OS can only use those drives as data drives, it may be limited to a file based image instead of a sector image.
If Ghost has to go with a 64bit PE disk it's going to be a problem because there is no such thing as "WOW64" or 32bit emulation on a PE disk. The 64bit PE disk is 64bit only and most of the stuff for ghost is 32bits.
Dave
That's why they need to make it a 64-bit recovery environment. Then it could be slipped into WinRE.wim like Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset does. Although MS DaRT builds their CD in a funny way requiring the Windows recovery disc instead of just using the WinRE.wim file that is in the recovery folder.
DaveH wrote:I thought the second one was the Terabyte tool because of the attachement name.
Confusing. I created the GPT partitions in BIBM for that one. The other one had the GPT partitions created in Win7 (Disk Management).