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I am sure you have not exceeded your number of uses of the ghost floppy. I have been doing on a monthly bases on 3 machines since 2003.
You can verify the image of any drive. It sounds like the source image may be bad, or the floppy program is no longer good. If you are cloning partition to partition, the format isn't going to matter since it (destination) is going to be overwritten anyway. Are you sure the sorce didn't have some form of problem, like a virus?. You could fo a fdisk/format of the destination drive, but it probably won't help. It may give you a new header on the drive though.
Now for the big question Is this Win XP?
Hi Phil thanks for your reply.
The original image is ok as it still boots and works fine in my PC
I just tried to fdisk and format 4x laptop drives without success.
When i reboot and check there are no partitions created so I cannot format the drives. What could prevent the drives being partitioned ?
I created another Ghost floppy and tried that but it won't recognise any of the drives corectly. When I check as it boots I can see the serial number of the destination drives are all random letters numbers and hyglyphics ?
If a virus had damaged all of the drives in some way to prevent them being recognised properly how could I restore the drives ?
I have lost about 200 pounds worth of drives and have had to order new drives this morning.
oh and yes its XP with no service packs I'm cloning but never had problems before
Have you tried running gdisk to format and partition with that tool? Some information about gdisk is available in the following documents:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/2000030715304425
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/1998081911285525
thanks Erik I'll check the links out tomorrow ...oh its tomorrow already lol
I have now managed to format one HDD and install windows by creating a new Win98 boot floppy
when I had finally finished installing everything and configuring I used a fresh G floppy to clone it onto another drive so at least I have got that far.
I am beginning to suspect the problem was caused by a G floppy that developed corrupt or missing filesI cannot think of any other reason why 8x HDD's failed to accept a partition and format ?
Very likely. Degrading floppies is not an unusual occurrence.