Ghost 2003 Sector Read Errors

Arctic Flyer · 10-12-2002, 10:51 AM

Okay, since it started snowing again last week, I am spending more time on the moshine and ran into an odd one. I am running a P4S8X with Maxtor 80GB AT133's formatted in NTFS under XP-Pro. We have two confusers that are exactly alike. On only one machine, when I use Ghost 2003 to clone drive to drive, I get sector read errors. Scan disk when set to do the exhaustive thing does not report errors, Powermax does not report errors in the config test, quick test, or the factory recertification test, and everything seems to be running fine. I got to passing gas with a tech at Maxtor who said that if the drive passes the factory recert that there are no errors. I got the drive to clone by telling ghost to "force" cloning. I tested the clone by switching jumpers on the drives and rebooting and XP came right up singing and dancing. Everything "seems" fine but it bugs me to have a backup program reporting errors...Kinda like hearing the surgeon say "Oops"!! The tech at Maxtor and I were wondering if it might be some oddball timing error having to do with reading this and writing that or something. Ghost does have several options relating to going through the BIOS or directly through the IDE controller so maybe I'll explore that. Anyone else run into this?

Thanx..AF

10-12-2002, 10:51 AM	#1
Arctic Flyer Dinosaur Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Alaska Posts: 34	Ghost 2003 Sector Read Errors Okay, since it started snowing again last week, I am spending more time on the moshine and ran into an odd one. I am running a P4S8X with Maxtor 80GB AT133's formatted in NTFS under XP-Pro. We have two confusers that are exactly alike. On only one machine, when I use Ghost 2003 to clone drive to drive, I get sector read errors. Scan disk when set to do the exhaustive thing does not report errors, Powermax does not report errors in the config test, quick test, or the factory recertification test, and everything seems to be running fine. I got to passing gas with a tech at Maxtor who said that if the drive passes the factory recert that there are no errors. I got the drive to clone by telling ghost to "force" cloning. I tested the clone by switching jumpers on the drives and rebooting and XP came right up singing and dancing. Everything "seems" fine but it bugs me to have a backup program reporting errors...Kinda like hearing the surgeon say "Oops"!! The tech at Maxtor and I were wondering if it might be some oddball timing error having to do with reading this and writing that or something. Ghost does have several options relating to going through the BIOS or directly through the IDE controller so maybe I'll explore that. Anyone else run into this? Thanx..AF
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