64gb Falcon and Ghost 9 image

[UKDTweak]

Hi all, new here...

I bought a 64gb Falcon, first thing i did was update the firmeware to the latest version, then installed an image from our ghost cast server (version 7.5) at work to test it and all worked well.

Got home and ran the update again to get a clean start on the drive, once finished I booted off the ghost recovery CD (Version 9) and ran a ghost backup made from my previous SATA disc (40gb Partition off a 250gb Sata hdd), upon rebooting, system posts fine, verifies the DMI pool then gives the error "a disk read error occurred".

So I did a clean install of XP SP3 from my CD and all seams to be fine

Anybody else had problems with installing an image made with ghost v9?

I have made a new image from the clean install but im worried that should i need to use it in future, ill get the same trouble with the new image, and have to do another clean install.

I tried different Sata ports on the mobo and new Sata cable, same error each time?

Motherboard is an Abit IP35 Pro (Sata ports using IDE mode)
CPU is a [email protected] (also tried at default settings)
2gb or pc2 8500 ram
1 250gb Sata drive
1 750gb Sata drive
1 IDE DVD/CD-RW
1 IDE DVD-RW
580w Hyper PSU
8800gts 320
8800gts 512
Audigy SB 2 Paltinum

Any ideas?? I have seen post on other sites that suggests SSD's dont like drives partioned via imaging software such as ghost and PQMagic.

 

[FaceplantSi]

I've recovered my array from an Acronis image once, and although there were no additional partitions it seemed to stall right at the end - I had no choice but to do a hard reset and when the rig rebooted it was all recovered and working fine... really weird, but I'm not complaining.

SSD's and image recovery do seem a bit hit and miss, although with only our 2 experiences to go on it's hard to say definitively.

I'd also be interested to hear from anyone else who's had similar issues...

 

[UKDTweak]

Other sites seem to recommend Acronis mostly, but I find it much much slower at creating the image compared to ghost so prefer the later if it will work!