Ghost exception response

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 abnormalities in the use of Ghost. To remind those friends who are experiencing incurable diseases: First, enumeration and analysis of abnormal conditions 1. Ghost has obtained more than one backup file. Strictly speaking, this is not an abnormal situation, but many people backup systems are not backed up. More than 2G system area into GHO file, in order to save time to reinstall Windows system; or disk-to-disk way to mirror the entire disk to another hard disk, rarely put more than a few G data partition into a file placed in In the same partition as 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 functional limitations of the operating system, mainly because DOS does not support large files. The first time I found out that Ghost's so-called "exception" was a backup on a friend's machine, he said that it is very troublesome to do backups, 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 sorted it out with VPOT, then Ghost, and met the same situation. The details are as follows: C drive 5G (FAT32), used space 2.18G, when more than 90%, display "INSERT NEXT MEDIA AND PRESS ENTER TO CONTINUE..." There are three options OK /CANCEL /FILENAME? Select FILENAME, named 2.GHO (1.GHO can not take the prompt to cover). When you continue to around 98%, the screen will display “RE_INSERT 1ST PORTION OF IMAGE", you can only select 1.GHO to complete. 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 then 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 can not be accessed under DOS, that is, the Windows 98 DOS window or graphical interface can access the partition normally, but in pure DOS, it can only access the previous several partitions, the last one or several The partition prompt is an illegal drive letter and cannot be accessed. In addition, Ghost7.0 clone win2000 is also used. 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. Find a clone file directly on the hard disk or CD on the original machine. Ghost data is sent to the new machine because of 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 failure: 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 be dead. 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 resume. 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 “Copy /b file1+file2+... outfile" command, outfile is the name of the file you want to get, 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 really a very rigid mirror program, this can not be recognized in the pure DOS behind several partitions, please try to use the Windows installation program to repair, if not, then it is best to format the C partition, reload once The system is good. Be careful to load the hard drive or patch of the motherboard so that the system can correctly identify the manufacturer model of the hard disk, using DMA or ULTRA DMA function. 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 certainly manage the hard disk directly, Ghost backup running normally. 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, it is a bit inconvenient for the system to load the hard disk management program before loading Windows. 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 RAR for Windows (must be Windows version, otherwise the long file name will be destroyed) and compress the entire Windows directory. Back up to 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 compromise backup method has two shortcomings: First, you are required to have dual systems, such as Windows98+Windows2000, then you can use another one to decompress and recover when there is a problem. If there is only one Windows operating system, or two Windows at the same time, it will be helpless, because the Windows self-extracting program can not run under DOS; the second is that the 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 Windows partition should not be too good, 3 ~ 5G is a suitable value.