Hi everyone,
Whenever I try to use Norton Ghost to burn to DVD to make a backup I get to about 7% and then get this error. "Unable to write to file. UMI: V-1-2001-31" I am not sure why I get this error, because the DVD is blank, it is a 4.7 GB disk and everything works fine if you go through a USB drive.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Hi everyone,
Whenever I try to use Norton Ghost to burn to DVD to make a backup I get to about 7% and then get this error. "Unable to write to file. UMI: V-1-2001-31" I am not sure why I get this error, because the DVD is blank, it is a 4.7 GB disk and everything works fine if you go through a USB drive.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
thanks for the reply. Are you saying in genral that is a bad media choice or just a certain brand? I would really like a DVD copy that is independent of an External HDD. How come when I make a copy with Macrium reflect to DVD it works fine? This makes me think it is a setting within ghost, and not a problem with DVD media. I tried this twice in Ghost, and it failed at exactly the same spot both times.
Any help would be apprecatied. If you can prove to me its not a norton issue, i would be even more greatful.
casper1985 wrote:thanks for the reply. Are you saying in genral that is a bad media choice or just a certain brand? I would really like a DVD copy that is independent of an External HDD. How come when I make a copy with Macrium reflect to DVD it works fine? This makes me think it is a setting within ghost, and not a problem with DVD media. I tried this twice in Ghost, and it failed at exactly the same spot both times.
Any help would be apprecatied. If you can prove to me its not a norton issue, i would be even more greatful.
Hi casper1985
I cannot prove, to your satisfaction, that using other media is a better idea than DVD media so I will not attempt to do so.
To try to get an image that you can burn you could try creating the image to disk and then just copy that image to DVD.
Hi casper1985,
What I believe mdturner is trying to say is that DVD media is inherently unreliable and is prone to failure due to scratches, dirt or any number of things.
When it comes to a critical backup like this, you are best to rely on some sort of hard drive or even USB flash drive.
There might even be some problem we could solve in getting Ghost to successfully create the backup to DVD, but this won't change the fact that it is not a reliable media for storing such important data as the backup of your system drive or other drive.
FYI: Many years ago I used to back up to DVD media myself (before hard drives were so cheap) and I had just one too many failures when I needed the backup the most! A DVD which created just fine, verified fine and all it did was sit in a protected DVD case for some amount of time and when I needed to use it, suddenly nothing could read the DVD. I tried cleaning the disk and every trick in the book. It was not just Ghost that could not read it. NOTHING could read it.
This happened multiple times so I switched to hard drive and never looked back and I've never been disappointed since.
I think part of the problem is with DVD-RW media which gets rewritten over and over again and over time this media can go bad even when you don't even touch it.
Contrast this with DVD-R which is written only once and I have yet to see one fail. I make personal backup copies of many things (no details) on DVD-R just in case the Master disk goes bad. I've never seen a DVD-R go bad yet.
I agree with mdturner. I would highly recommend getting some sort of hard drive such as USB, for your backups.
Best wishes.
Allen
I use DVD+R to do my backups to DVD. Would this make any difference? It just seems like there is a problem in burning to DVD that is Norton's issue, since it works fine on DVD when I burn using Macrium.
has anyone else had this error code before?
Keep in mind that when Ghost backs up to optical media that it first must create a portion of the image, and then burn to disc. A burning program only has to do the burn. What OS do you have? How much RAM do you have?
Try DVD-R as well, I'd also avoid low end brands. I can't be specific in my recommendations, but I've had success with TDK, Verbatim, etc.
erik_carlstrom wrote:
I've had success with TDK, Verbatim, etc.
My personal preference is Verbatim as I find less isues with their media than with others.