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Please provide any details about your CD/DVD drives and the disks you are using. Also, be sure that the drivers and firmware are up-to-date before trying this process again. Thanks!
the CD/DVD drive is a LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1P. i haven't installed any drivers for it; XP must have done it? or it was somehow "left over" when i re-formatted the C drive? there was an 8 MB piece of the drive that didn't re-format, i think.
the disks are your basic discs you can buy at target. sony CD-R 700 MB.
the first time i made a ghost image was 2 years ago, right after the system was completed. i took it home, added some of my own software (Office, Photoshop, stuff like that), set some settings the way i like them, and made the image before doing anything else. so i would ASSUME that all drivers were current at that point, because i watched them checking things at the shop, and saw them getting driver updates for some stuff. the Ghost image appeared to finish fine, but when i went to use that image over this past weekend, i got the message that it was corrupt on the 2nd disk of it. there were a few choice words floating around the room at that time!
so i re-loaded everything from scratch, and made another image. again, it said it finished fine. this time, i did a "check image" on it, and got the same message when i put in the second disk.
i can go look for an update to the CD/DVD drive though. anything else?
If you can get ahold of different disks, ones that are recommended by the player manufacturer, that also might resolve the problem.
hi tony -
i checked and there was a firmware update for the drive that came out about 2 months ago. i got it, and, for kicks, loaded the Nero disk that had come with the system too (that WAS loaded for the first corrupt image).
tried to ghost again, and ta-dah, it worked! obviously, this update wasn't available 2 years ago, so who knows. my guess is that it was a drive issue that didn't actually get resolved until 2 months ago. i used the same brand of disks, and nothing else changed.
thank you very much for your help! 
For the benefit of other customers, could you provide the URL to the site where you found the firmware update? If one person has a problem with this, Iām sure there are many others who experience the same thing. Thanks!
suuuurrre...make me go find it again. lol.
okay, from this page on the Lite-On site, a person can use the 2 drop-down fields to locate their specific product:
http://www.liteonit.com/global/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=154
that's as close as i can get you. that will take you to a page with downloads for firmware, specs, and product manuals in various languages. if any are available, i suppose.
i tried to put a snag-it of the page in here, but don't know how. anyway, you're right, maybe this could help someone else!
Here is the link for the LH-20A1P firmware (release date 3/22/08)
http://www.liteonit.com/DOWNLOADS/ODD/LH-20A1P/firmware/KL0P.zip