I'm using GHOST 14 on a 2004 Toshiba laptop w/Win XP SP3, and run "incremental" back-ups over a base recovery point, all on an external 80 GB hard-drive.
Yesterday when I did this incremental, GHOST said it was unable to create the recovery point -- reason given is that the ext HDD is probably about to fail (implied there are bad sectors). I ran a chkdsk /r (but not from start-up) on my ext HDD and indeed found 8KB of bad sectors. Sure not very many out of 80GB.
Can't find the chkdsk info to see what all happened. It's usually in winlogon under Applications for Event Viewer. But, no winlogon is there. Maybe the system doesn't put one out there for chkdsk of an ext HDD? I restarted my system, still no winlogon, period.
BTW, I did a delete of my back-up data on the ext HDD, then a full recovery point on it. GHOST had no problems with that. Hmmm.
Sure appreciate any thoughts on these matters.
Robby