GHOST has a common abnormality analysis

Computer store news GHOST is the most commonly used and most powerful tool software in the backup/maintenance system. Its usage and instructions have been introduced in many articles. Here I intend to list some of them. The abnormal situation in the use of GHOST, to remind those friends who encounter incurable diseases: First, the enumeration and analysis of abnormal conditions 1, GHOST to get more than one backup file Strictly speaking, this is not an abnormal situation, but many The human backup system is to back up the GHO file of the system area of ​​no more than 2G, so as to save the time of reinstalling the windows system in the future; or use the disk-to-disk method to mirror the entire disk to another hard disk, and rarely exceed the number of G data. The partition is made into a file placed in the same partition of the hard disk (because there is no special meaning in security, it is in the same hard disk). So encountering this situation may be overwhelming. This is caused by the limitations of the operating system, mainly because DOS does not support large files: The first time I found GHOST this "exception" is a backup in a friend's machine, he said to do It is very troublesome to back up the problem, ask me for help. I went there and tried it. The situation is this: a hard disk is divided into C drive 5G, D drive 10G, E drive 14.3G, and the partition format is FAT32. C disk used space is 2.8G, use GHOST to do C backup, select partition to the image file, when done more than 90%, jump out of the dialog box warning prompt, can only choose OK, otherwise stop; after reading, there are 2 Documents: 1.GHO and 10000001.GHS [Note: 1. GHO is the file name taken]. I made a backup of the C drive of three machines. Only one C drive has been successfully used for 1.8G. 1.GHO, only one file. In addition, the two used C disks have been converted into two files with 2.8G and 2.5G. GHOST6.0 and GHOST2002 have tried, the same situation. I first suspected that there might be a disk error, so I first ran the scan disk to correct the error, and defragmented with VPOT, then GHOST, and met the same situation. The details are as follows: C disk 5G (FAT32), used space 2.18G, when more than 90%, display “INSERTNEXTMEDIAANDPRESSENTERTOCONTINUE...” Is OK/CANCEL/FILENAME? Three options. Select FILENAME, named 2.GHO (1.GHO can not take the prompt to cover). When it continues to around 98%, the screen displays "RE_INSERT1STPORTIONOFIMAGE", which can only be completed by 1.GHO. At the time, I was wondering why GHSOT would not be able to handle files larger than 2G. I thought about it for a long time, and suddenly found out that he switched from DOS screen to windows graphical interface on another machine. As soon as I arrived at his home, his machine was already open, and it was a DOS interface. I did not think about running the GHOST program. These are all running under the pure DOS interface. The files obtained by GHOST in the pure DOS state are indeed subject to The limit of the number of bytes, a single file can not exceed 2G, and in the windows DOS window, everything is based on the windows kernel, more than 20G is no problem. 2. After GHOST, some partitions cannot be accessed under DOS, that is, the windows 98 DOS window or the graphical interface can access the partition normally, but in pure DOS, only the first few partitions can be accessed, and the last one or several The partition prompt is an illegal drive letter and cannot be accessed. In addition, there is also the use of ghost7.0 to clone win2000. The cloned system always prompts no page file or the page file is too small to run when it is started for the first time. These are mostly because the profit-taking map is convenient when installing the machine, directly find a clone file on the hard disk or CD on the original machine, GHOST data to the new machine, because the model and capacity of the hard disk and the settings of windows2K The difference has caused certain compatibility issues. 3, this is the real GHOST abnormal fault: in a friend's dual hard disk system machine, the second hard disk 40G, one of the partitions is more than 20G, found that after running GHOST, can not identify large partitions over 20G . In the GHOST software, it shows that the large partition is actually the remaining unformatted disk space, marked as *FREE, which is still normal, but if you continue to operate, the partition will crash. I carefully looked at the settings in his CMOS and found that the BIOS of this motherboard can only recognize the first 10G hard disk, can not identify the second large hard disk more than 32G, and he is not willing to load the special large hard disk management provided by the manufacturer. Tools, the second hard disk is set to NONE, can only be recognized by windows98, although running software, playing games are no problem, but want to use GHOST but not. This double hard disk failure situation should be encountered by many people. The large hard disk can not be recognized by the motherboard's BIOS is a typical tricky problem, plus dual hard drive + GHOST, is a bit of a headache. Second, the corresponding solution 1, for the first case, in fact, is normal, but only a little less. When GHOST restores the image, it can automatically find the second GHO file to continue recovery. If you want a single file, you can use the DOS COPY command, plus the binary copy of the parameters to synthesize a separate file, be sure to add binary parameters, otherwise you get a mess. The instructions are as follows: Execute the "Copy/bfile1+file2+...outfile" command, outfile is the name of the file you want to get, and you can name it yourself. By the way, if you are merging text, you don't need the binary /b parameter directive. 2, GHOST is indeed a very rigid mirror program, this can not be recognized in the pure DOS behind several partitions, please try to use the windows installer to repair, if not, then it is best to format the C partition, reload once The system is good. Be careful to load the motherboard's hard drive or patch so that the system can correctly identify the manufacturer model of the hard drive, using DMA or ULTRADMA. If you still can't solve it, please back up the data and re-partition. 3, this is the motherboard's BIOS is too old, can refresh the BIOS is best, so you can directly manage the hard disk, normal operation GHOST backup. If you can't find a new BIOS, there are two ways. One is more troublesome. If you get another machine and change the capacity of the partition to less than 10G, GHOST will recognize it. Second, use DM Universal Edition. Wait for tools to manage your hard drive. But after using DM, the system needs to load the hard disk management program before loading windows, which is a bit inconvenient. I really don't want to use DM and other tools, but also want to back up windows. Here is a compromise: use ZIP or RARforwindows (must be the windows version, otherwise the long file name will be destroyed) and the entire windows directory will be compressed and backed up. A file, preferably in an automatically decompressed format. When recovering, first delete the directory tree where the original windows is located, and then extract it. This kind of compromise backup method has two shortcomings: First, you are required to have dual systems, such as windows98+windows2000, then in case of a problem, you can use another one to decompress and recover. If there is only one windows operating system, or two windows at the same time, then there is nothing to do, because Windows 瘫痪 self-extracting programs can not run under DOS; second, this backup recovery method is destroyed on the C disk boot area Invalid time, not as good as GHOST, even the boot area data can be backed up. It is recommended that the partition of windows should not be too good, 3 ~ 5G is a suitable value.