I've been using Ghost for years. I currently have Ghost 10. I routinely make legacy Ghost images via my bootable CD. The last 2 that I created (in the last week) have had the same issue, but images that I created months ago are fine. I'm hoping someone here can help me out.
I created the images on laptops, imaging their internal HDD's to my external Seagate via Firewire. I do this all the time.
When I connect the Seagate drive back to my system and try to open one of the Ghost images, first I get a screen saying "Please select the file for the last segment in this image file." I have never seen that before. But that file is right there, so I click it.
Ghost Explorer opens and starts to show the drive's data, then I get a popup that says "Unable to open image file segment 2. Please change the disk or cartridge." The odd thing is that the top of this window shows the path to the file, but instead of a drive letter it says 1:1. Example 1:1\Folder\Filen001.GHS. The options are Retry or Cancel. Retry just brings the same window back instantly.
Cancel shows the following: "Corruption in image file, or media not present. Not all files are shown." Interestingly, the path at the top of this window is correct. Example C:\Folder\Filename 2008-12-23.GHO.
Previous Ghost images created with the same disc open fine. I can boot my boot disc and verify the Ghost image, and it checks out every time. Has anyone seen this before? The only thing I can think of at this point is to boot off of my boot disc again and restore both ghost images and just keep the flat files. Of course, I get no compression that way.
Yes I am spanning, I think one of my images is split into 7 2GB segments, another into 9. The files are not corrupt. I was able to run the check Ghost verify image utility against themsuccessfully, and I was successfully able to restore the entire image to another drive using (legacy) Ghost. It's just Ghost Explorer that won't open either image (I'm dealing with 2 different images of 2 different laptops where the same thing is happening).
You can work with 'legacy' Ghost from the Ghost 10 boot CD. I discovered that if you choose 'Recover' from the main menu on the CD, there's an option that says something like "recover from legacy Ghost image." Clicking that simply launches Ghost, I believe the version is 8.3 but don't hold me to that. From there I can not only restore a 'normal' Ghost image, but create them as well. I'm in the habit of using this method whenever I'm going to reload my system, so I have a good backup.
My source drives are NTFS (Actually one is a Dell preload so it has the utility partiton to, I forget what filesystem it is but I'm guessing FAT/FAT32. My destination drive is an external Seagate 500GB formatted Fat32. I've used this setup several times without issue so I'm fairly baffled. The only thing I can think of that may have changed is that I connected my external drive using Firewire, where I may have been using USB before I honestly don't know. But I don't see how that would matter as long as I can see everything.
I've been using Ghost for years. I currently have Ghost 10. I routinely make legacy Ghost images via my bootable CD. The last 2 that I created (in the last week) have had the same issue, but images that I created months ago are fine. I'm hoping someone here can help me out.
I created the images on laptops, imaging their internal HDD's to my external Seagate via Firewire. I do this all the time.
When I connect the Seagate drive back to my system and try to open one of the Ghost images, first I get a screen saying "Please select the file for the last segment in this image file." I have never seen that before. But that file is right there, so I click it.
Ghost Explorer opens and starts to show the drive's data, then I get a popup that says "Unable to open image file segment 2. Please change the disk or cartridge." The odd thing is that the top of this window shows the path to the file, but instead of a drive letter it says 1:1. Example 1:1\Folder\Filen001.GHS. The options are Retry or Cancel. Retry just brings the same window back instantly.
Cancel shows the following: "Corruption in image file, or media not present. Not all files are shown." Interestingly, the path at the top of this window is correct. Example C:\Folder\Filename 2008-12-23.GHO.
Previous Ghost images created with the same disc open fine. I can boot my boot disc and verify the Ghost image, and it checks out every time. Has anyone seen this before? The only thing I can think of at this point is to boot off of my boot disc again and restore both ghost images and just keep the flat files. Of course, I get no compression that way.