Hi,

Well that's an interesting problem. 

We have seen cases before where a ghost span (.ghs) of one image (say longfilename1.ghs) has been overwrtiten when another image is created with an overlapping name (longfilename2.gho) - a short version of each filename was created (in 8.3 form) when the span was created, the second then overwrites the first as the names are the same.  However I don't think this happens with .gho files.

When the problem with restoring aaa.gho shows up, does the restore fail on both linux & DOS?  Ghost has probably generated a ghosterr.txt file on this failure, could you please post it here (for both DOS & Linux if both fail). Thanks.

What distro/version of Linux are you running?  Do you happen to know what NTFS filesystem driver is running in the distribution (e.g. NTFS3g)?

Thanks, Robert.

thx for reply Rob
both ghost versions failed to restore aaa.gho. Now i'm not at home to post ghosterr.txt
The linux distro is PCLinux2009 and ghost seems to work fine (an fast) on it. Anyway , i don't think ghost for linux is the problem - since both versions of ghost can restore well images created on this linux enviroment. The problem appears when i make an image in DOS enviroment - images created in linux enviroment are damaged. Something happen there..
Anyway when get back home , i'll post more information about ntfs3g version i use and ghosterr.txt

P.S.
GhostExplorer  fail to handle affected images too
thx again

Thanks for the info - I'll look for the ghosterr.txt & ntfs3g info when you post it.

BTW - what DOS environment are you using?

Thanks, Rob.

both ghost version does not generate any ghosterr.txt in this case
However, i guess i found the problem :-). In a few words windows is (was) the problem
Is known that win does not support linux filesystem (in my case ext3 filesystem created with latest e2fsprogs). I remembered that i installed few weeks ago the latest CentOS
On my dualboot system, I forgot to run chkdsk with f parameter after that..
Anyway after chdsk have "corrected" the errors ghost for DOS does not affect linux images anymore
the ntfs3g driver is the latest 2009.4.4

Thx again for support !
ghost still rocks :-)

P.S.
There is a little bug in ghost for DOS when i try parition form image>file type>*.* does not show any file but directories so if the file does not have gho extension i cannot select it with ghost for DOS

Glad to hear that the problem's resolved :-)  

Thank's also for the note about the partition from image with file type *.*.  I've made a note of it to look into.

Cheers, Robert.