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#1 Bennyk

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Posted 12 April 2003 - 11:13 PM

Used norton ghost couple of weeks ago great backup c:drive.Last night try to backup c:drive with ghost it comes up with c:drive write protected error! Can any one help cheers.

#2 Tomay

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Posted 13 April 2003 - 12:46 PM

What file system ntfs or fat 32.

BTW I think you can't save the backup to the same drive you're backing up.

#3 Bennyk

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Posted 13 April 2003 - 04:39 PM

Fat32

#4 Tomay

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Posted 13 April 2003 - 06:49 PM

Are you booting from a flopy or cdrom into dos?

#5 CyberGenX

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Posted 14 April 2003 - 12:09 AM

Yes you cannot restore a backup from the drive you are restoring to. Ghost 2003 now uses it's own boot area instead of having to make a floppy, it's really nice. It sees FAT(s) or NTFS just fine, even on raid arrays!

#6 Christianb

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Posted 14 April 2003 - 06:41 AM

Hi Gang,
I just wanted to point out that last I knew not all raid arrays are supported. In fact only a limitted number of controllers are supported and last I tried to use one Promise Raid controllers weren't supported.
Cheers,
Christian

#7 CyberGenX

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Posted 14 April 2003 - 08:17 AM

I have the Promise Fast TraK. WOrks FinE.

#8 DS3Circuit

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Posted 14 April 2003 - 08:08 PM

Hardware RAID is "functional" but not generally supported.
Software RAID is SKETCHY at best.

Since it is a FAT32 drive have you tried running a scandisk and/or chkdsk and/or Norton Disk Doctor ?

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#9 Christianb

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Posted 14 April 2003 - 08:34 PM

Sometimes a write protected boot drive is characteristic of a virus. Do you have a major virus scanner installed with recent updates? Also I think I was using Ghost 5.0 and 2000 and at that time no Ghost did not work with the fastrack solutions and their technical support verified that fact. I am however thrilled to hear that today it's working so users won't have to suffer like I did