The anecdotal partition size limit for image acquisition is also 1 GB (= 931.5 GiB), if not more, too.īTW, GHOST.EXE for DOS from Norton Ghost 2003 is v. In any case, for DOS and Win 9x/ME, this means we can be sure the partition one saves the image to can certainly be as big as 1 GB (= 931.5 GiB), if not more. Ghost only accesses the disk directly to acquire the image and to redeploy it.
As far as I know, there's no limitation to the size of the destination partition used, except those imposed by the host OS, because the access for writing the image is done through the OS. My experience with Ghost 2003, like Prozactive's is that it's the best cloning program ever. Still hoping to hear technical feedback from the MSFN community on Ghost 2003 HDD size limitations. I understand they're based on PowerQuest's DriveImage and are completely different "under the hood" from previous versions. I also have never used versions of Ghost from 9.0 onward. I can imagine problems cropping up from doing so. I have no experience directly burning an image to optical media, as I don't trust or like that method at all. I've never had an image fail its integrity check either. BTW I always use fast compression and save the images to another HDD, and I always run an integrity check on the image afterwards just to be safe. It's saved my bacon countless times, and I consider it one of the most valuable programs I own. I've personally used Ghost 2003 for years and Ghost 6.0 for several years before that, successfully restoring dozens of images without any problems whatsoever. This is definitely the first time I've seen a problem reported. I must say I'm shocked ("surprised" is too mild a word) to hear about *any* problems with Ghost. Thanks for any information on this topic! It would be very useful to know the maximum size limit for Ghost 2003, and steps one could take (repartitioning, etc.) to compensate. Of course the new HDD was empty so the image was written well below any "hard size limit". I had a lot of difficulty getting various DOS USB drivers to recognize the large HDD (I believe I did get some "divide overflow" errors), but once I managed to do so, Ghost 2003 did not have any problems writing the image to the drive. I personally do not have a HDD in this size range to test and experiment around with, but recently I helped a friend make a Ghost image backup to his new 1 TB NTFS-formatted external HDD. I was wondering if anyone knows anything about similar limitations of Norton Ghost 2003 (a DOS program)? Web searches and anecdotal reports indicate problems with HDDs in the 1 TB to 1.5 TB range with "divide overflow" errors often mentioned, but I have not seen anything definitive.
Recently there has been a lot of excellent technical discussions about the limitations of various utility programs (FDISK, FORMAT, SCANDISK, Norton Disk Doctor, etc.) vs.
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