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I have created a ghost image of my physical drive c (20GB) to physical D (20GB) using Ghost 11.5. Now when I am trying to restore it from d to c it stops giving error "decompresion error-3" or "compression overrun". I have run the integrity check of the image, and it is fine. I am deep deep trouble. Does anybody has any solution.

Hi, 

 

This usually indicates an image corruption or a read error. Since your integrity check is successful, image seems to be OK. Is driver D: a IDE drive or a USB or SCSI? 

 

Do you use DOS or WinPE for this operation? 

 

Krish 

 

 

 

 

thanks for prompt reply. Both the drives are IDE and I am restoring after booting from Windows 98 Bootable CD i.e. DOS.

 

 

One more thing I should mention hope this may help. The ghost image is spanned to second file. the first file is about 4 gb and second is about 3gb.

 

Did you run integrity check too from DOS? (I assume you use Ghost -> local -> check -> image option). Usually if you can get it going, Ghost should be able to read it. What file system do you have in Drive D: ? FAT32 or NTFS?

 

When you read from an IDE drive, this error usually means read errors from the disk (basically this message says that data does not seem to be correct after uncompressing). Did you have any disk read errors in the system? Some times they appear when you work with the disk long time. Since it is 20GB, I assume it is a relatively old disk. Could you try the operation after letting it cool for a while - a few hours? 

 

Krish 

 

 

Yes I have checked the image integrity from DOS as explained by you. The file system on drive D is also FAT32. Yes, the disks are old but working fine and has no bad sectors. Actually, I have deleted some files of windows 2000 (from drive C) and the OS Crashed. A day before doing this I have ghosted the drive and the image is the latest one. Regarding the heading problem, I have tried restoring it from a very cold system. In region of India where I live, the winter has started and it is farely cold in morning hours.  Thanks.

 

SOLVED!. I have booted the system with BartPE with a pen drive into 32bit environment and then restored the system using Ghost32. It done without errors. Also, before doing this I changed the BIOS bus master and HDD SMART both disabled. Dont know what was the reason with Win98 booted Ghost restore.

-Mahesh 

Hi, 

 

Thanks for the update and good to hear it is resolved. By any chance, if it is due to SMART, just keep an eye on the disk. SMART suppose to warn about potential drive failures. 

 

Krish 

 

 

thanks krish,

a nice support for a nice product. Thanks for suggestions about SMART. What i think is, due to some reason DOS boot (from win98)+Ghost was not recognizing large image file (4gb) properly. And BartPE (WinXP)+Ghost32 done it. Dont know but may be some addressing limitation.

 

-Mahesh