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Ghost Explorer throws "Invalid drive details. This probably isn't a Ghost image file." error

Created: 19 Nov 2010 | 2 comments
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Issue:
When attempting to open a valid and non-corrupted .GHO file in Ghost Explorer, the error "Invalid drive details. This probably isn't a Ghost image file." appears. If anything, that error message is misleading as the image is an actual Ghost file and is not corrupted.

Caveats:
Simple partition to image was created for a standard NTFS file system using Ghost 8.3 and attempting to open that image in Ghost Explorer 2003.789. I acquired Explorer through:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/pr...

Note that spanning/RAID/SCSI/EFS/etc. was not used while creating the image.  I was running Ghost Explorer on both Windows 7 (32-bit) and Windows XP (32-bit) with the same results.

The image I took was of an NTFS partition without compression or encryption on that partition (that's what I meant by "standard").  Windows XP 32-bit was the native OS that performed the formatting of the NTFS partition.

Question:
Is there a different version of Explorer I should be using to view my existing Ghost files? I could find no documentation on backwards or forward compatibility between these two versions. The image is in perfect shape as I can re-image the partition back to that same image without any error.

Thanks in advance for any feedback on the above!

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I would start with using the same version of ghost explorer

I would start with using the same version of ghost explorer as your GHO was built with.   Ghost explorer 2003 would be for the norton ghost I beleive not symanted ghost.

 

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Norton Ghost is based on the

Norton Ghost is based on the old Ghost technology, whereas Ghost Solution Suite is based on Partition Magic technology, and the two are NOT interchangeable. There is a Norton Community for which a link can be found in the sticky posting at the top of this forum if you are predominantly working with the Norton variant of Ghost.

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