[dba-Tech] Petulant PC

>Don't know what you think of Gibson, but I like his stuff.

LOL, it's amazing that everyone feels required to preface this with "I don't
know what you think of Gibson...".  

I think he's a nut, and I like his stuff too.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:28 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Petulant PC

Arthur,

The way that I have used Ghost is a disk-to-disk clone; I've never created a
Ghost image file, as such, just a straight copy of everything.  That means
that the second (Ghosted) drive is directly accessible from Explorer.  I
have an 80 GB drive that's about 2/3 full and it only takes an hour or so to
clone the drive.  It's just this flaky behavior after the clone is complete
has now gone beyond the pale.

I'm running a level 4 Spinrite scan now; started at 7:30 this morning and
should be complete by 9:00 pm tonight.

Last night the "missing or corrupt" System file message no longer appeared,
but the system reboots faster now.  The blue XP progress bar only has a
chance to do 1-1/2 little cycles and the system reboots.

I WAS able to start up ERD Commander 2002 and examine the drive.  I'm just
not sure what to do.  Should I copy the Ghosted System (.exe, I think...the
error message doesn't make it clear WHICH System file was corrupt or
missing) file from my D: Ghost drive over to C:?

I was also able to start the Windows XP install disk and I went into the
Recovery console...but, again, I'm not sure what to do.  So I fall back on
making sure that my drive integrity is as good as I can determine with the
tools I have.  Don't know what you think of Gibson, but I like his stuff.

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI