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date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:11:01 -0700,
group: microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter
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OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure"
I know this isn't XP or even MS, but Symantec is next to useless, especially
for an 5-year-old product, and there is very little traffic in the
symantec.support. ... newsgroup. I know there are Ghost 2003 users who hang
out here, so here's hoping ...
I had been happily using Ghost 2003 on XP Pro sp3 to make images to a
partition on a secondary internal drive. I bought a WD 500 GB USB external
drive. It works fine with other apps, including Acronis TI. But Ghost 2003
crashes immediately after starting PC-DOS with Error Number 29004 "Read
sector failure, result = 1, drive = 2, sectors 6291519 to 6291521." There
are 3 physical hard drives in the system - 2 inside the case and 1 USB.
I *think* the problem is that the USB drivers that came with Ghost 2003
can't access the newer USB drive. However, Ghost crashes now even if I
direct the images back to the internal drive.
The first time I tried to do this, Ghost took me to the "Add Ghost Disk
Identification" wizard. So I think that now Ghost is failing when it tries
to access one of its "identified" disks.
How can I "un-identify" the USB drive as far as Ghost is concerned? (Or even
better, can anyone suggest how I tell Ghost to use better USB drivers?)
I've run chkdsk /F on all drives (and all partitions); I've uninstalled and
reinstalled Ghost 2003. These efforts don't help.
date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:11:01 -0700
author: Gruff the Elder
Re: OT - Ghost 2003 "Read Sector Failure"
May not be a Media Center question, but it is a valid question.
My experience with Ghost 2003 is poor to say the least, I have had trouble
with Ghost 2003 reading some of my USB external hard drives. Ghost 2003 is
buggy in my opinion.
My favorite image program is Acronis True Image Version 11. (BTW, TI 11 is
less $$ than Ghost).
True Image has no trouble reading or writing to any of my USB external Hard
Drives. I have 40 GB, 120 GB and 500 GB. True Image 11 sees and writes all
of them.
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"Gruff the Elder" wrote in message
news:90480B21-A7FB-4C09-B099-366E8C57CDA5@microsoft.com...
>I know this isn't XP or even MS, but Symantec is next to useless,
>especially
> for an 5-year-old product, and there is very little traffic in the
> symantec.support. ... newsgroup. I know there are Ghost 2003 users who
> hang
> out here, so here's hoping ...
>
> I had been happily using Ghost 2003 on XP Pro sp3 to make images to a
> partition on a secondary internal drive. I bought a WD 500 GB USB
> external
> drive. It works fine with other apps, including Acronis TI. But Ghost
> 2003
> crashes immediately after starting PC-DOS with Error Number 29004 "Read
> sector failure, result = 1, drive = 2, sectors 6291519 to 6291521." There
> are 3 physical hard drives in the system - 2 inside the case and 1 USB.
>
> I *think* the problem is that the USB drivers that came with Ghost 2003
> can't access the newer USB drive. However, Ghost crashes now even if I
> direct the images back to the internal drive.
>
> The first time I tried to do this, Ghost took me to the "Add Ghost Disk
> Identification" wizard. So I think that now Ghost is failing when it
> tries
> to access one of its "identified" disks.
>
> How can I "un-identify" the USB drive as far as Ghost is concerned? (Or
> even
> better, can anyone suggest how I tell Ghost to use better USB drivers?)
>
> I've run chkdsk /F on all drives (and all partitions); I've uninstalled
> and
> reinstalled Ghost 2003. These efforts don't help.
date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:30:45 -0500
author: CSM1
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