Ant
Sat Jul 19 15:22:01 PDT 2008
On 7/19/2008 12:30 PM PT, Shenan Stanley typed:
>> Norton Ghost created them via a DOS bootable CD. Ghost can handle
>> NTFS. I never had this problem before. Maybe it's a new thing in
>> SP3 or KB updates? Now, that I think about it. I don't remember it
>> doing this in SP2 before I upgraded to SP3.
>
> Ghost cannot 'write' to NTFS - or read from NTFS. Ghost is an application
> used for making images. There are DOS and Windows (and so on) versions of
> Ghost. You can create a bootable media for Ghost - but what that bootable
> media can do depends on your choice of what to make it out of. If you did
> it using a DOS boot disk/image - then it cannot natively read/write from/to
> NTFS. There are other products that make this possible - but it cannot do
> it directly.
>
> Now - if you wrote to an NTFS formatted disk (locally connected when you
> made the image) and you did it from DOS - then you either have one of those
> products installed or what you are saying is not entirely accurate (it is
> not a DOS bootable CD - but something else.) If you wrote to the NTFS
> formatted media over the network - then it doesn't matter what you boot with
> as long as your networking works. The file format is irrelevant if writing
> to it over the network.
>
> So - when you made these images - did you map a network drive after booting
> and write these images to a network shared area or did you write to a
> direct-connect area (CD, DVD, external USB/Firewire drive, internal hard
> disk drive, etc.)?
No, I did not use any networks. Just three interl HDDs. I went from one
partition (C:; first physical drive) of a HDD to another HDD (H:; third
physical drive). All drives/partitions are using NTFS. AFAIK, Norton
Ghost DOS can read and write from/to NTFS drives. Here is PowerQuest's
PartitionMagic v8.0 information:
===========================================================================================================
Partition Information for Disk 1: 114,471.0 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect
TotalSects
===========================================================================================================
H: NTFS Pri 17,241.6 0 0 63
35,310,807
I: NTFS Pri 97,229.3 0 1 35,310,870
199,125,675
===========================================================================================================
Partition Information for Disk 2: 76,316.6 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect
TotalSects
===========================================================================================================
D: NTFS Pri,Boot 19,908.6 0 0 63
40,772,907
ExtendedX Pri 56,407.9 0 1 40,772,970
115,523,415
EPBR Log 56,407.9 None -- 40,772,970
115,523,415
G: NTFS Log 56,407.9 40,772,970 0 40,773,033
115,523,352
===========================================================================================================
Partition Information for Disk 3: 305,242.8 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect
TotalSects
===========================================================================================================
Unallocated Pri 47.0 None -- 63
96,327
C: NTFS Pri,Boot 107,003.3 0 0 96,390
219,142,665
E: NTFS Pri 99,002.1 0 1 219,239,055
202,756,365
F: NTFS Pri 99,190.4 0 2 421,995,420
203,141,925
===========================================================================================================
Boot Record for drive H: (Drive: 1, Starting sector: 63, Type: NTFS)
===========================================================================================================
1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 35310806
17. MFT Start Cluster: 1471283
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 2206925
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0xFCBC11F2BC11A862
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
===========================================================================================================
Boot Record for drive I: (Drive: 1, Starting sector: 35,310,870, Type:
NTFS)
===========================================================================================================
1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 35310870 (0x21ACD16)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 199125674
17. MFT Start Cluster: 8296903
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 12445354
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x3A60C7FA60C7BAC1
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
===========================================================================================================
Boot Record for drive D: (Drive: 2, Starting sector: 63, Type: NTFS)
===========================================================================================================
1. Jump: EB 5B 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 40772906
17. MFT Start Cluster: 786432
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 16
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0xE32AD896AA0DE590
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
===========================================================================================================
Boot Record for drive G: (Drive: 2, Starting sector: 40,773,033, Type:
NTFS)
===========================================================================================================
1. Jump: EB 5B 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 115523351
17. MFT Start Cluster: 786432
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 16
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x0810ECE0F689EEA1
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
===========================================================================================================
Boot Record for drive C: (Drive: 3, Starting sector: 96,390, Type: NTFS)
===========================================================================================================
1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 96390 (0x17886)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 219142664
17. MFT Start Cluster: 9130944
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 13958560
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x1014DDA214DD8B5C
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
===========================================================================================================
Boot Record for drive E: (Drive: 3, Starting sector: 219,239,055,
Type: NTFS)
===========================================================================================================
1. Jump: EB 5B 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 219239055 (0xD11528F)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 202756364
17. MFT Start Cluster: 8448181
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 12672272
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x7FC819D4BFA7D121
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
===========================================================================================================
Boot Record for drive F: (Drive: 3, Starting sector: 421,995,420,
Type: NTFS)
===========================================================================================================
1. Jump: EB 5B 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 421995420 (0x1927239C)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 203141924
17. MFT Start Cluster: 8464246
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 12696382
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x38CAB625AA837964
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
> I make ghost images practically a half-dozen times every week and apply them
> to many different machines as well. I have not had any trouble with
> permissions.
Weird. I wonder what happened for me. This was my first time ever.
However, I haven't used Ghost to back up drives since end of 2006. :(
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