Originally Posted By: packman
Has anyone met an "Abort:3600 General Exception" error when using Norton Ghost 2003 to image a partition to a USB-connected external hard drive?
I just solved this problem, though it wasn't with a USB-connected external hard drive. It was working fine for the longest time, then it appeared to suddenly fail. After a lot of troubleshooting, and a lot of Googling, I shrunk the partition by about 1 GB, saved the changes, then expanded it back to the original size. Once I did that, the problem was gone.
BTW, as far as Ghost "sucking" compared to Acronis, I've used both. I like the UI in Acronis much better than Ghost. I like the overall feel of Acronis better. However, I tried dumping an image with both, and Ghost was about twice as fast. I may have been doing something wrong, but in for me (imaging a series of QA test machines that are constantly being restored to a "clean" OS), speed is the number one priority.
Yes, Ghost uses a form of DOS, in some cases, but it still can image NTFS partitions. It can even image a Linux partition. In fact, the drive that stores our partitions is formatted as NTFS, and Ghost is able to read and write the images to this drive. NTFSDOS is not required for Ghost, since it has built-in NTFS support, and has had it for quite some time. I've even used it to image an SATA RAID array.
Also, just FYI, Ghost is capable of imaging Windows from within Windows using Ghost32. It can't restore an image to the partition belonging to the running copy of Windows, but neither can Acronis or anything else, for fairly obvious reasons.
