I recently created a 32 gb FAT-32 partition using 4 kb cluster size - resulting in something like 8 million clusters. I created a secondary partion on the remaining space on that drive (121 gb) also using 4 kb cluster size (resulting in about 30 million clusters).
This was done using On-Track Disk Manager. Normally, DOS format would adjust cluster size to prevent the number of clusters on a FAT-32 volume from exceeding about 2 million clusters.
Norton Ghost 2003 (run from floppy boot) was able to copy (clone) the 32 gb primary partition to another drive, but it was not able to copy the second parition.
The source and destination drives were both 160 gb SATA's. This was the error given by Ghost:
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Error Number: (29004)
Message: Read sector failure, result = 1, drive = 0, sectors -2084487200 to -2084487199
Version: 2003.789 (May 28 2003, Build=789)
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Note the reference to a negative sector number. Would that indicate that ghost is using an improper (or inadequate) variable type to handle the sector number?
Also - when ghost copied the first partition, it did not maintain 4 kb cluster size on the destination drive. It used 16 kb cluster size on the target drive.
Is there a Ghost product that can perform this copy/clone task correctly?