Monday, April 26, 2004

Symantec Ghost Troubles

Ever since I put the new SATA drive in my A/V box, I've had horrid audio-video sync issues (audio is now lagged by 1/4 sec to 1/2 sec). I think I finally got that straigtened out (hint: when turning on/off the dynamic sync options in VirtualVCR, it helps if you restart VirtualVCR after making those changes) so now I'm trying to Ghost my WinXP install so that I can get back to this point should I have problems down the road.

Unfortunately, Ghost keeps throwing a Error Number: (29004) Message: Read sector failure, result = 1, drive = 0, sectors 1703399 to 1703423 error after it copies roughly 2-3% of the disk. So far I've tried the "-fni" switch to no avail. Also tried "-fni -ffx".

Ultimately, the solution was just the "-fro" switch ("Forces Norton Ghost to continue cloning even if the source contains bad clusters.") which allowed me to ghost the volume. So my command line for Ghost is:

ghost.exe -split=2048 -fro

Will see how well it works if I ever have to restore. Source data is 14-15GB, not sure how big that will be once it packs down (hopefully only 2-3 DVDs).

posted by Wuphon's at 4:28 PM