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Ghost 9.0 Copy One Drive to Another option

Discussion in 'Other PC Software' started by Welshjim, 2006/05/02.

  1. 2006/05/02
    Welshjim

    Welshjim Inactive Thread Starter

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    Basically, I do not understand what the Ghost 9 "Copy One Drive to Another option" does.
    I think I understand the BackUp option, which backups folders/files in a compressed/encrypted form suitable for restoration if necessary.
    I was hoping the "Copy One Drive to Another option" would create something like a Clone as the old versions of Ghost did. If I remember correctly, a Clone was not encrypted and could be read directly when opened.
    But when I used the "Copy One Drive to Another option" to transfer my internal hard drive's content to partition Z:\ (created as Primary|NTFS by Partition Magic 8.0) on an external USB hard drive, the following happened:
    1) The procedure seemed to progress normally, just like the "Backup" I had performed using Ghost to another Primary NTFS partition on the same external USB hard drive, and taking about the same time.
    2) When complete and I rebooted, I tried to open the Z:\ partition. I got a message "Z:\ is not accessible. Error performing inpage operation ". I can find nothing on Google on this. And Norton Ghost Help says very little about the "Copy One Drive to Another option ".
    3) I right clicked on the Z:\ Drive icon in My Computer|Properties. It showed 0 (zero) bytes of used and free space. It also showed File System as RAW.
    4) When I open Partition Magic 8.0, it still shows Partition Z:\ as Primary|NTFS (which, as mentioned, is the way I had set it up using PM8.0), and having 20GB used space, 13GB free space. But Control Panel|Administrative Tools|Computer Management|Disk Management indicates that Z:\ partition is Primary, but not formatted at all and has 33GB Unused (free) space only.
    5) I have no problem accessing and using the Backup, which as mentioned, I created on another partition of the external hard drive.

    Does anyone have a clue what is going on? What is the "Copy One Drive to Another option" supposed to do? Can I create a Clone using Ghost 9?
    It also is a mystery how Z:\ became unformatted. Or should I say reformatted, since I have info from three different sources that it now is RAW, NTFS or nothing.
    An explanation of the error message would be also interesting, but I have a suspicion there is nothing to do about it.
     
  2. 2006/05/03
    Christer

    Christer Geek Member Staff

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    Jim,
    I'm still using trusted old Ghost 2003. I don't want to do the incremental stuff and I also want to work from DOS since I feel that it is safer than imaging a running system. I would consider imaging (incremental) the data partition in stead of backing up using other software but retrieving something from the image would be more complicated than copying it from the backup partition.

    Anyway, if you don't get an answer here, try the forum in my sig. They have tried to solve that issue with Ghost 9/10. If a search doesn't reveal the solution, pop the question.

    However, "Copy Drive ", I understand that as copying one HDD to another, not one partition to another (if that is what you did).

    The lingo in Ghost 2003 is quite easy to follow, Disk to Disk, Partition to Partition, Disk to Image and Partition to Image. When people start talking about their "C-drive" I don't know what they mean. For most people that means "the hard disk" since they only have C: but when there are multiple partitions they can talk about "the other partition" on my "C-drive ".

    Well, I'm a foreigner and it may be clear as crystal to you!

    Christer
     

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  4. 2006/05/03
    Welshjim

    Welshjim Inactive Thread Starter

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    Christer--I knew I would hear from you.
    I went to the Radified forum, searched for the error message "Error performing inpage operation ", found nothing and therefore posted my question on the Low Rad Board.
    http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=1146689845;start=0
    I clarified that I was trying to Copy my internal hard drive (C:\) to the NTFS formatted Primary drive Z:\ on the USB external hard drive.
    I had had no problem in doing a Ghost Backup of C:\ to another partition on the external hard drive.
    I will let everyone know if I get any info.

    But, I still hope to hear from someone on Windowsbbs. :)
     
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  5. 2006/05/03
    Christer

    Christer Geek Member Staff

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    Jim,
    there is always (at least) one bad apple in each basket and that search engine stinks. I'm sure though, that someone will respond and even do some empirical tests on their own computers to find an answer.

    Christer
     
  6. 2006/05/04
    TonyT

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  7. 2006/05/04
    Welshjim

    Welshjim Inactive Thread Starter

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    TonyT--Thanks!
    As Christer knows, a solution now is on the Radified forum. It is a bit lengthy so you may want to look here
    http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=1146689845;start=0
    In Summary: a Ghost "Copy One Drive to Another option" can be done only with some special fiddling if the Source Drive is larger than the Destination Drive. This is true even if the Data amount on the Source Drive is smaller than the size of the Destination Drive.
    A Ghost "Backup" does not seem to have this limitation.
     

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