Eric the Grey

Originally posted by AlexGMH: Quote: It's me again. Did you try to recover the 5 problem CDs? You can use isobuster: http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/ which worked great for me. Well, I tried this, and it did pull the images off, but with errors in tact. No luck running Ghost Explorer after that either. Quote: Are the images actually bad? Try coping the contents of the CD to your HD. If they copy from the CD to the HD succesfully then the image should be good. If I try to copy from the CDR, I get: "Cannot copy CDR00005: Data Error (cyclic redundancy check)." I don't suppose there is an answer to my delima. Thanks for the advice anyway people. Eric the Grey

s'Ok. It's not like I haven't done the same. Thanks for looking though. Eric the Grey

From my first post: "I've tried using the Ghost Explorer, but with no success. I can only open the very first image, and nothing more." Ghost Explorer will not open up all the archives, only the first one or two. I need something that will read all the good ones, regardless of the missing ones. I've used the -corrupt and -ignoreindex options, and it still will not open up all the files. Eric the Grey

Ok. Two things. First off, SP2 cannot be rolled back using last known, or uninstall, OR by rolling back to a previous check point. I know, I tried. I am working on a fresh install of XP. Formatted and re-installed. What I'm hoping to find, is a link to some resource, or program, that will allow me to extract items from ghost images, even if I do not have all of them available. Thanks again. Eric the Grey

I used Norton Ghost 8 to backup my main HD prior to installing SP2 for XP. Everything seem to go find, and SP2 causes some problems, so I decided to back it out. Unfortunately, Ghost saved the images to CDR, and 5 of the set of 30 images had problems and cannot be read from the CDR's. I never thought there would be an issue, since I have never had a problem while burning to it. So, the downside is, the entire contents of my C drive are gone, and apparently unaccessable because Ghost will not open up the individual .GHO files unless they are ALL available. So my question is, is there any possible way to open up and extract files from the remaining image files? If so, how? I've tried using the Ghost Explorer, but with no success. I can only open the very first image, and nothing more. I would dearly love to restore my "My Documents" folder since there are a lot of files there, that cannot be recreated or replaced and my previous (pkzipped) backup of that folder seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. Thanks in advance for any help. Eric the Grey