When my PC at work (an 8 months old HP) started making loud clicking sounds, I realized that I needed to act quickly and replace the disk. The replacement drive arrived the next day, but the troubles started once I tried to clone the old drive to the new one.
First, a warning. Be careful when using Norton Ghost (in my case version 2003) on a HP machine – there’s a known problem with that combination.
In my case, I ran Ghost and chose to clone the drive. When the computer booted into the Ghost interface, it locked up and displayed an error message saying “internal stack overflow”. After retrying this a few times (same results) and trying to boot back into Windows (didn’t work since Ghost had taken over the boot sector) I booted Knoppix so I could look for assistance on the web.
(Thank god for Knoppix, BTW… I was able to access my files and documents on the disk, access the net and use email just as usual. It only took a quick configuration of Thunderbird to get myself back on track.)
Further attempts to clone the drive from within Knoppix failed – PartEd crashed when I selected the drive and both PartImage and NTFSclone gave up midway due to disk errors.
Finally I managed to remove the small partition created by Ghost and make the old Windows partition active again, and Windows on the faulty drive booted again. Well, after a few lockups during boottime anyway.
Now it was time for another try at cloning the drive… I decided to give Acronis True Image a try, and it worked beautifully.
So the lesson is – don’t use Ghost unless you’re sure it’s compatible with your hardware, because it can really screw up your computer…
Good text!
I agree 100%. We use ghost at work and I absolutely hate it. Those guys think that it is great but they have never used acronis backup software. I am going to take it in one day just to show them just how much better it really is.
I’ve just done the Ghost 2003 clone thing on a bt machine and have the internal stack overflow issue.
any chance you can give me step by step on how you fixed it?
Norton Ghost problem is solved with the following options:
1.) If you are using a HP machine, go to http://www.hp.com
And under their support section search for your computer model.
2.) Download all the fixes that HP offers you.
3.) Update every driver that they offer
4.) In the BIOS under Storage under Sata change the option to COMBINED IDE and swap SATA cables on your motherboard accordingly.
I fixed my Ghost problem this way.
Hope this helps
Regards,
I agree with the above statement made by my friends. Dont use Ghost as it will spoilt your data. Better use some other good software. I had a same problem last time and i used Ghost but it didn;t work out. So somebody suggested me HDRC and really they made me feel very happy to see thier quality software. So guys , i must tell you that just visit http://www.hdrconline.com you’ll get to know everything there.
Cheers!
Kelly
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