I have what seems to be a bad hard drive.
Using Ghost 12 to copy the hard drive to a USB drive until a new drive can be purchased.
Ghost 'copy' will not copy the drive. The bad drive has 2 partitions, one with OS and the other with recover files?
Read here to make 2 partitions on USB drive, then delete a partition to copy a partition. This would not work.
When I tried this approach I made a partition with 10gig and another with 130gig. Ghost would not copy the larger partitipn at all, after about 30 seconds of work to 'copy' I get an error EC8F17B3 'too many NTFS attributes'.
I tried copying the smaller partition first, this copy did complete however when looking at the USB drive there is now another (3rd) partition. That is not a problem (I think) as long as I get the drive copied before it dies.
I also tried to 'copy' the Vista partition onto the USB drive after deleting all partitions and full USB drive into 'unallocated space'. I still get the same EC8F17B3 error.
It would be nice to copy ALL the drive.
Any help appreciated.
Richard