GHOST image problem

[Photo601]

Greetings all and I hope I am in the correct forum. I have a system with 2 drives currently. One is IDE, the other is SATA. I wasn't anble to get WinXP Pro to load on the SATA drive. I was once successful in loading the OS tot he IDE drive and GHOSTING the image to the SATA drive. After the system needed to be rebuilt, (Image disk was broken) I attempted to repeat the process. This time I received this error: encountered an NTFS volume with a log file that has not been flushed. I have no idea what this means. I want to run the OS on a partition on the SATA drive, and use the IDE for an external drive. Suggestions?

(The problem/error occurs when GHOST begins to copy the image)

 

[Nodsu]

You have to run the windows disk checker on the NTFS volume to fix it. Did you do an unclean shutdown when you ghosted the drive?

 

[Photo601]

You have to run the windows disk checker on the NTFS volume to fix it. Did you do an unclean shutdown when you ghosted the drive?

I am not sure what an unclean shutdown means. After the error showed, it asked if I wanted to proceed or exit. I tried once on the proceed option. When the image showed complete, I rebooted to see if it took. Windows displayed the "One of your disks needs to be checked..." It did find and correct errors on the drive. I am unclear what drive was being scanned. I presume it was the SATA since booting from the IDE drive had no problems. When I saw the image did not take hold, I tried again figuring the errors were may have been corrected. I exited after receiving the error the next attempt. I did run CHKDSK /F but it didn't find any errors on the original install.

A thought, is the HDD size an issue for ghosting an image?

 

[Nodsu]

I am assuming you are using Norton Ghost.. No, drive size is not an issue as long as there is room for data (and Ghost will tell you if there isn't).

 

[Photo601]

Yes, I am using Norton Ghost.

As an update, I ghosted an image to a DVD, then ghosted that image to the drive. It appears I was sucessful. I didn't do anything different this time than when I loaded XP Pro on the IDE then ghosted that image to the drive w/o using any optical drives. At least this way, I have an original image on disk. Just not the way I had envisioned doing it.
Bottom line: It works. I just wish I knew why things went so differently than the first time I did it.

 

[I_love_FionaXie]

Just run ghost with the switch -ntil

You should be on your way