Ghost 2003 - Destination File Exists 1

[Frank4d]

I am using Ghost 2003 to make images of several work computers and am having a problem while creating the Ghost image. I keep seeing dialog boxes popup saying "The destination file already exists. Go you want to overwrite it"?

I use a network boot CD with Ghost 2003. After I boot and logon to the domain I run Ghost and select Disk to Image, navigate to my images folder on a server in the domain, create a new filename for the image, and start.

Any idea why Ghost is reporting duplicate files?

 

[Rick998]

I suspect it's because the disk image files are more than 2Gb so have to be 'spanned'. If so then the 'file already exists' message refers to the .GHS 'span' file of a previously saved (and similarly named) image.

For example, say you save a Win XP disk image called FINANCE1.GHO. If the file size of the image is more than 2Gb (the DOS limit) then Ghost will save as much as it can as FINANCE1.GHO then save the remainder as FINAN001.GHS.

Next you save a Win XP disk image called FINANCE2.GHO. Again, Ghost will save as much as it can as FINANCE2.GHO but will then save the remainder as FINAN001.GHS, thus overwriting the first 'span' file of FINANCE1.GHO.

Choose a different name for the span file or change your file naming convention, e.g. 1FINANCE.GHO, 2FINANCE.GHO, etc.

Hope this helps...

 

[Frank4d]

The files are approximately 20GB and the file naming is similar. My most recent file name STA001A-2.GHO was added to a folder that already had STA001A-1.GHO (also approximately 20GB).

If the problem is as you suggest then it's probably safe to assume my older images are trashed. I guess I need to rethink my file names or store in a different folder.

 

[Rick998]

20Gb! Wow! And I was concerned when my XP images (including applications) went up to 2.2Gb (using the 'high compression' option)!

As a matter of interest, I've found that Win XP Pro SP1 plus all critical updates plus our standard apps comes in at 2.2Gb whilst the same image (i.e. same hardware, same apps) built from Win XP Pro with SP2 already slipstreamed in comes in at only 1.9Gb, a valuable saving.

I'm afraid you are correct that older images will have been trashed by newer 'span' files.

PS - I noticed that your filenames are in 9.3, not 8.3 format. Doesn't this lead to automatic filename truncation to maintain DOS's 8.3 convention?