![]() Probably since 2003.Īcronis is the better solution. I can't help with the Ghost problem since I stopped using Ghost a LONG time ago. That's why I got myself a large-capacity external hard drive! What am I doing wrong? Have I got something wrongly configured in Ghost? Would the imaging be more likely to work if I started it in the Ghost DOS environment rather than the Windows?įrom hereon, I can't get away with making backup images on my PC and then using drag n' drop to transfer them to the external hard drive because there won't be enough space for them, increasingly, on the PC. I'm using Win2KSP4 and fully-updated Microsoft USB2.0 drivers. It seems that Ghost gets as far as writing a 1KB file to the external partition but then just bombs out for some reason, being unable to start the copying of the actual partition contents from the PC to the drive. This version of Ghost being three years old, I can't get any one-to-one e-mail support from Symantec, and I've been right through Symantec's KnowledgeBase and found nothing on this particular error. Has anyone ever hit this problem with Ghost? If so, what's the cause? Have taken all the usual precautions - stopping screensaver, disabling Ethernet connection on Internet router, etc. As far as I know, anyway, all my external devices are USB2.0. I've tried altering the 'ext drives' option in Ghost's Options section from USB2.0 to USB1.1, with the same result. I've used Ghost 2003 for several years now to make and restore partition images but hitherto have not tried making images to a USB storage device. That file would, I guess, be useful to send to a Symantec techie, but since direct support from Symantec has long since expired on this product, I can't do that. ![]() It does indeed write an error log, which is found in the Ghost application, once you've got back into Windows. "ABORT: 3600 A General Exception occurred. But it then bombs out and simply gives the following DOS error message: I start the backup procedure by using Ghost in the Windows environment and then it correctly switches to PC-DOS. a backup of the root partition on my PC) to the external hard drive in the normal way, using Ghost. However, I cannot seem to make a backup imagefile (ie. The drive itself works wonderfully well and I've already copied across a large number of photofiles and also copied across a Ghost image into its own dedicated partition (using drag n' drop). I reformatted the external drive to NTFS, so as to be compatible with my existing file system and to handle large files, making three primary partitions at the same time. I recently bought myself a USB 2.0-connected 250GB external hard drive, for making Norton Ghost partition-to-partition backups and for archiving copies of photos, files, etc. Has anyone met an "Abort:3600 General Exception" error when using Norton Ghost 2003 to image a partition to a USB-connected external hard drive?
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