Hi all,
Thanks in advance for any help with this one:
Question: Is there any way to repair a very old Ghost image, (about 1997 ish) that comes up with an error upon restore.? Even partial recovery would be good.The software is before Norton took over ghost - its "Ghost by Innovative Software / Binary Research, Version 2.14"
Background:
I am a commercial programmer and as such get asked to fix friends computers etc.
Recently I had an odd request from a friend who owns a photographic processing company; Specifically could I help with his recently aquired, old imaging camera (a QCR 45 imaging camera - made about 1997). The website of the camera is still there:
although contacting the website got no reply, and I am sure the company no longer exists.
An onboard Windows 95 computer runs the camera, and over the years the disc had got corrupted.
With the camera came a Ghost image of the original hard drive - but when I try and load it back via the copy of Ghost that came with the machine I get an error and the restore fails. (I can get my friend to get the error if it helps anyone)
I can rebuild win95 easily - but the ghost image contains now irreplacable information, (custom hardware drivers, etc).
It would be really good to get back even some of this image if it is possible as the custom camera software and drivers seem to be impossible to get hold of nowadays.
I have tried contacting Norton direct - but they just said use Ghost Exporer - I tried that and get the error "Made with a version before 3"
I'm a programmer so if this needs custom, low level software writing to "mend" the fileI can do that - but I don't know the ghost file format for instance, and I don't have *lots* of time to lend to this one, so a helping hand would be most appreciated.
thanks
Gary
(or - and this is a long shot - if anyone reading this has one of these cameras then please do get in touch with me - thanks !!!)