Norton Ghost boot disk not seeing files

Hey all,
Using Norton Ghost 2003 .789, I'm trying to boot to my recently set up ghost server. Now I have two of these servers, both running on Windows 2003 boxes. I get to one of them with the disk, but the other one is weird. It will let me into the server, but the directories are empty. If I do a "dir" command, I get this:
Volume in drive of P: is Data
Directory of P:\

file not found

2,147,000,000 bytes free (2GB)

Now the 2 setups are pretty similar; the biggest difference I can tell is that the one that works has compression enabled, but I've already been told that it shouldn't make a difference. They are both on standard NTFS volumes, with identical user accounts and access permissions. I did copy over the entire shared directory (including the Ghost directory) over from the working server. Swapping images around wouldn't really be ideal since the motherboards are different. Anybody know what could cause this?? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

PS I searched and didn't find any previous postings remotely similar to this, but sorry if I missed one.

Thanks,
Cloudwing

 

Welcome to the board, Cloudwing!

dir is a DOS command. Try the same in a cmd window in XP (type cmd in a srart> run window and you'll see the same result). The ghost boot disk is a DOS disk and DOS, as well as cmd.exe, is unable to see files on NTFS disks. However ghost can make an image of NTFS partitions just fine.

If your partitions don't act the same to the dir command it's because they're different file systems (not both NTFS). Check them in disk manager (control panel, administrative tools, computer management, disk management) and hold the mouse still on the second line in the graphic of each disk.

 

Thanks for the reply, Sparrow.

They are actually both NTFS disks, but the one that was working was a dynamic volume. (Actually, I thought I read that dynamic volumes don't work for ghosting, but since it's just the ghost server maybe it's not a problem.) What ended up happening was that my boss got in before I did and he said that he shared the whole drive instead of just the folder, and apparently that worked. *shrug*

One way or another, it was moved to another office before I had a chance to look at it. I'll try to check it out to verify exactly what he did in my alleged spare time.

Thanks again!

 

We'd appreciate hearing what you find. Thanks for the folow-up.