Hi

Can anyone help me?
I have now spent hours frustrated, trying to use Norton Ghost 2002. I am using the NSW2002 pro edition which has ghost on it. What I want to do is create small 640Mb images onto my additional HDD for buring to CD-R later. I have made a boot disc both with CD-R/CD-RW and also just a CD bootable but cannot achieve my goal either way. Additionally of course I have used the switch from the prompt A:>GHOST and that switch is ghostpe.exe -split=640 -auto I assumed this would copy my image to my 2nd HDD in 640MB lumps so that I could burn them later??
However I keep getting the error message that my drive is full/has not enough space. The drive I am copying to is a 6Gig drive and it is newly formated so all the space is available?
When I quit after the error message I reboot to see that the file that has been copied, up to the point of the error, is in fact 655,358Kb big more than my expected 640Mb?
Naturally I am running from true dos rather than a dos window
What am I doing wrong?
The reason I wanted to try this way is because I wasted a few discs burning direct to CD. It is supposed to be quicker to burn direct to HDD and then copy later!!

Any advice welcome

Gav

I am not an expert in ghost myself, burning directly to cd has always worked for me.
Have you read the very good guide located here? : http://ghost.radified.com

Thanks for your reply Trondos.

Unfortunately I have already tried this guide. Tells you a lot about how to do something but not a lot about when it goes wrong. Its a great guide to get you started though. I thought I was following this guide to the letter but I cant get it to work

Gav

Hi

Well i've just tried a different method from within Windows to split a ghost image the following way. Create a complete image first with Ghost from DOS. Reboot to Windows and open up Ghost Explorer,navigate to where you have just created the image and highlight it,click on view and choose options and enter the span split point in mb ie: 650mb - 700mb and select autoname spans. Click on file,compile and save as and let Norton create a spanned set which can then be burnt to CDR/W at a later date.
I know this is not the method you require from DOS but i've not had time to try this from DOS yet.
There is a complete guide to spanning and command line switches from the help menu located in Ghost Explorer...

HTH

Smiffy

Thanks Smiffy

I'll give this a go and let you know how I get on.
If you do have any joy doing it my method please let me know

gav

LGAV what you are trying to do should work. THis is how I used to back mine up.
However I have known ghost to say that there isn't enough space on the destination when there is. I just select 'don't span' & 'continue anyway' and it carries on.

Thanks I'll give it a go

lgav