Prasanna,
the integrity check says the image is bad.
" Ghost has detected corruption in the image file. "
however, Ghost explorer opens, reads, extracts files.
If you create an image using -fro and it does not report a problem, then the image should be good.
it should "Force Ghost to continue even if bad blocks exist in the source".
it should simply ignore what it can't read and produce a valid image of what is left.
if the bad part is in a file, then the file may be truncated.
if the bad part is a folder structure then the folder and all affected files may be truncated.
in any case, it should continue and produce an image that is readable.
since the errors occur at the 45% (of 60GB) there should be some useable data in the image.
the restore reports a total failure in less than 10 seconds.
redoing the image backup produces the same result.
running chkdsk exhaustively ( -f -r) reports that there are bad sectors on the disk, but that the structure is intact. chkdsk terminates without errors.
thanks for your assistance,
Ole Jensen.