I am using Ghost that came along with Norton SystemWorks 2003. I made a Ghost Image file that was copied directly to 5 DVD's. My first mistake was probably choosing Fast Compression since most of the data I wanted to copy was mostly already compressed Ghost Image Files. My second and most fatal mistake was shutting down Ghost.exe in DOS while only a minute or two into the Integrity Check. Unfortunately, I didn't realize this until AFTER I zero-ed both of my HDD's. Had I run the Integrity Check a few minutes more I would have gotten the corruption errors and would not have erased my HDD's.
After I had reinstalled XP SP2 with all the updates, NSW 2003 with all the updated(archived), I ran Ghost Explorer and could not get any files to load at all. I tried several switches at the command-line, all to no avail. There were some instances where I could see some files but these files were totally empty.
I knew right then I would not be able to restore these corrupted image files back onto the HDD that they came from, but I went ahead and tried to anyways. Sure enough when I tried to restore the image, Ghost reported the files were corrupt. Here is a sample from the GHOSTERR.TXT file:
Date : Sun Mar 2 23:23:46 2008
Error Number: (19235)
Message: Decompression error 10
Version: 2003.793 (Dec 17 2003, Build=793)
Command line arguments:
Active Switches :
Spanning
AutoName
CRC Ignore
ProgMode : PROG_LOCAL
PathName : 2764 Current.GHO
DumpFile : @CD-R1Ghost CD/DVD Image
DumpPos : 2314625878
File64 buffersize : 0
FlagImplode : 0
FlagExplode : 2
Operation Details :
Total size.........41888
MB copied..........2289
MB remaining.......39599
Percent complete...5%
Speed..............407MB/min
Time elapsed.......5:37
Time remaining.....1:37:09
I desperately need help to make every attempt to recover the files from these DVD's. Is there a department in Symantec that I could mail my DVD's to so they could try and recover my files? Would be willing to pay for it.
Aside from any possible help from Symantec(I'm well aware that they no longer support NSW2003) is there any kind of software that I could use to recover files from corrupted Ghost Image Files??
Please help.
Message Edited by DLDavis_66 on
03-09-2008 09:20 AM