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48433	2002-05-12 04:05:00	I am trying to use Norton Ghost 2002 to make a ghost of my Windows partition (7.5Gb, 4.5Gb used) into a seperate partition (4.9Gb) using high compression. Near 90% complete I get a message to choose a destination for spanning. I don't know why because there should be plenty of room (previously I have fitted a similar size ghost image plus 3 more of other partitions that together totalled another 4.5Gb! into this partition. I even tried spanning to another partition that had 2.5Gb free and it said that wasn't enough!? When I aborted and checked the size of the image it had done it was only 2Gb (leaving 2.9Gb free!). Why is ghost behaving like this?	Guest (0)
48434	2002-05-12 04:23:00	Any compression/archiving software uses a workfile as well as an output file. It uses more disk space while it is working. Can you do it in a few bites? I've never liked archive files in the GB range anyway. Any error in the storage medium can lose the lot. And the bigger the file, greater the chance of an error.	Guest (0)
48435	2002-05-12 05:58:00	borrow a HDD and dump it across!! RC	Guest (0)
48436	2002-05-12 10:18:00	Ok, I have solved this problem! I booted into DOS and then inserted my Ghost disk. By typing the command line switch (from within the Ghost directory) GHOSTPE.EXE -SPAN=650 I was able to limit the span sizes to be 650 mb each (it seemed a convenient size).	Guest (0)
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