Norton Ghost problem
 

i have Norton Ghost version 9.0 i am currently attempting to copy a drive which has about 115GB of data to a 200GB but i get the error:

Cannot complete copying of (C:\) drive. Cannot copy source drive to destination location.
Error E7C30010: Device \\.\PhysicalDrive1 cannot write 4,096 sectors starting at LBA 63. Error 00000079: The semaphore timeout period has expired.
Details: 0xE7C30010
Source: Norton Ghost 9.0

so it will not allow me to copy anything, anyone know what the problem is ?

Re: Norton Ghost problem
 

Are both drives internal and how are you running Ghost? Are you running it from within Windows or through DOS??

Re: Norton Ghost problem
 

they are both internal, i uninstalled ghost and i am now using windows own backup utility, how do i get files off the drive as it it saves everything as a bkf file ?

Re: Norton Ghost problem
 

There was a programme called xxcopy that could completely clone hard drives, that might be better for you if it's still about.

Re: Norton Ghost problem
 

By using windows backup utility again ;)

Re: Norton Ghost problem
 

ok smartarse ;) thank you ;)

Re: Norton Ghost problem
 

Sorry but if I remember correctly the inbuilt back up programme is the only way to create the files and then re-use them again. If you want to clone the entire drive then XXCopy is a quick and relatively easy way to do it :) I used it when I upgraded my main/ boot drive and it worked perfectly :tu:

Re: Norton Ghost problem
 

just had a look at it, im not familier with or using its commands, how would i command it to do an entire drive to another drive ?

Re: Norton Ghost problem
 

Will go look at the instructions for you but I believe you type in a command string from a DOS line. I'll go see what I can find ;)

Re: Norton Ghost problem
 

Well according to the site it goes like this:

Connect the new drive as D and then in a DOS line use the following commands:
FDISK (initialize a partition)
FORMAT D: (init volume for file access)
XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /CLONE (copy all the files)

connect the new drive as C (Making the necessary jumper changes to both drives)
FDISK (set the active partition)
If you use the windows admin tools, computer management to format the D drive and prepare it for use you should be able to skip straight to the
XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /CLONE
command and then it just needs the FDISK command to set the partition active. If it goes wrong then you can just re-connect the old C drive back up and reboot ;)

Re: Norton Ghost problem
 

too much hassle.

Re: Norton Ghost problem
 

What are you doing with the Corporate version of Ghost? ;)