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| Thread ID: 64631 | 2005-12-21 17:43:00 | Ghost Problems :( | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 414547 | 2005-12-22 00:40:00 | Dude, he's doing a disk to image ghost, not disk to disk, hence the 2GB limits. Sheesh | kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 414548 | 2005-12-22 00:57:00 | Dude, he's doing a disk to image ghost, not disk to disk, hence the 2GB limits. Sheesh Yes? And? So do I. And my C: is 10Gb FAT32 and my D: is 101Gb FAT32. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 414549 | 2005-12-22 00:57:00 | Fat32 has a 4GB limit on a file, in this case an image file, and the old Ghost has a well-known 2GB limit. | kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 414550 | 2005-12-22 00:58:00 | At ease everyone, yes stand easy, problem solved! :D OK, for those interested there is a problem at the 2 GB DOS level between PC-DOS, MS-DOS from Win ME and MS-DOS from Win 98. To fix the problem you make yourself a Ghost Boot Disk from a Win98 boot disk. Do NOT use a Win ME boot disk to make the Ghost disk or use the default PC-DOS that comes with Ghost. I don't see why it should matter. My Ghost boot disk uses a Win95 boot disk. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 414551 | 2005-12-22 02:46:00 | Sorry I can’t explain it either, but it would appear that you only get into trouble if one of the systems is PC –Dos or Dos from Win ME. Dos from Win95 or Win98 is apparently fine and so it has proved. I wonder whether the problem lies in the command.com? :cool: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 414552 | 2005-12-22 03:00:00 | 2 and 4 G are "boundary numbers" which give problems for 32 bit machines, and their software. (2^32)-1 is "4G", the biggest unsigned 32 bit "word"; (2^31)-1 is "2G", the biggest signed 32 bit "integer". Once the problem is struck (when W95 was written, disks weren't that big) there are ways of working around it. It's not a fault for software to not handle hardware which doesn't exist when it's written. Or even files of ridiculous sizes like 3.92 GB. :) W98 boot disks seem to handle the big files. The W95 disk pctek uses successfully could be W95B or C ... whereas an original W95 one might not. So everyone could be right. :thumbs: |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 414553 | 2005-12-22 04:44:00 | W98 boot disks seem to handle the big files. The W95 disk pctek uses successfully could be W95B or C ... whereas an original W95 one might not. So everyone could be right. :thumbs: And Win95 doesn't read NTFS either. But Ghost does. It doesn't matter what you use to boot the PC. Once you have loaded Ghost - Ghost then runs things. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 414554 | 2005-12-22 07:25:00 | yes ghost will only create files of 2gb in size but theres no limit on how many.......it shouldn't stop at ONE file...........it should continue to create .gho files until the image is completed assuming there enuf storage space for the files and in this case there was......... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 414555 | 2005-12-22 09:56:00 | Use Power Quest (before brought by Symantec) it images ntfs, fat32 and multpile partions (in one image file) and you can restore from dvd, network, slave drive, etc. | beama (111) | ||
| 414556 | 2005-12-22 19:43:00 | yes ghost will only create files of 2gb in size but theres no limit on how many.......it shouldn't stop at ONE file...........it should continue to create .gho files until the image is completed assuming there enuf storage space for the files and in this case there was......... Not quite, only the first 2gb is .gho, (I think) after that the rest seem to become .ghs files and I understand your luck runs out there at 999 of them, which shouldn't cause too many people a lot of inconvenience. :D From googleing the Internet and reading this thread, it becomes obvious that even internationally, very few have got a real handle on this programme and all its little idiosyncrasy’s. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a beaut programme, but needs a handbook for dunces like me. ;) |
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