Hi, I am restoring a ghost 20002 partition images to three separate partitions on a new hard drive. The first partition (the operating system) went fine and the OS works well. The second partition (programs) got to right neat the end when a message that say's "insert next media and press enter to continue" I did that and that partition is fine as well. The third partition (my files) is about 6 GB, it gets part way through when I get the "insert next media and press enter to continue" when I do that it says "File does not belong to this file set". When I was creating the image I was having trouble with "disk full" I researched it and got this information from this group, "to boot from a normal start up disk with ghostpe on it and run ghospe after the start up disk had run" I need this partition badly, I certainly hope someone can help me get my files back. Any assistance appreciated. sincerely, Daniel

If you already have your OS partition installed, why not boot up and (I presume you are restoring from CD) use 'Ghost Explorer' to restore the files from the '3rd partition' CD's. I'm not 100% sure that Ghost Explorer will restore from different multi-volume images (I've never tried it yet)but as a last resort you can give it a go.

Hi Xgamer, Thanks for the reply. I copied the ghost image to partition 4 on the new hard drive. I tried to access the files with ghost explorer it did find and list some (not all) of the files but when I tried to save those files to partition three it won’t complete the copy and ends up changing the partitions I have set up on the new hard drive making it so I have to start over repartitioning and formatting the new drive. I did that a few times a few different ways, a Ghost integrity check of the back up drive three image says it is corrupt. I have made a summary of my situation below (if you have the time to read it). Thanks again for any assistance. Daniel I have a Pentium 4 1.6 GHz, 256MB RAM computer running windows 98SE with a 40 Gb Maxtor D740X-Gl hard drive, which is partitioned, into 4 sections. Partition 1 - 7.40GB operating system. Partition 2 – 7.42GB programs. Partition 3 – 7.43 Gb my personal files. Partition 4 – 14.9GB assorted stuff. I had the program incredimail (incredihell) installed and it started giving me problems, I had a major crash, which resulted in the incredihell program and Outlook Express not opening. I made a copy of the incredihell folder and the Outlook Express mail folder to partition 4 and after trying to restore the files incredihell was missing reinstalled that program. It still wouldn’t open. I attempted to repair the OS kind of screwing things up in the process. I made a copy of drive one (c) to partition four and went to my Norton Ghost image (which is located on separate Maxtor hard drive) to restore drive C. I did something wrong, the operating system worked well but drive two, three and four were not visible! I decided to stop right there so as to not damage any more files on that drive. I went and bought a new Western Digital 40Gb hard drive, I partitioned it to the same specs as the old hard drive and attempted to do a partition image to partition image restore. Drive one (the OS) and drive two (the programs) imaged perfectly but when I tried to restore the larger drive three I got a "insert next media and press enter to continue" when I do that it says "File does not belong to this file set". I tried that a few times, no luck. I copied the ghost image to partition 4 on the new hard drive. I tried to access the files with ghost explorer it did find and list some (not all) of the files but when I tried to save those files to partition three it won’t complete the copy and ends up changing the partitions I have set up on the new hard drive making it so I have to start over repartitioning and formatting the new drive. I did that a few times a few different ways, a Ghost integrity check of the back up drive three image says it is corrupt. So, I am back to trying to restore the lost partitions on the original drive, I have the OS and the programs from the Ghost image, what I want more than anything is to restore Partition thee and four which should be basically intact on the hard drive but is not being seen by FAT or whatever. I started to learn about Data recovery services and software but it is daunting, I don’t have the money to spend $200 for some of the programs I see and the $400+ price tag for restoration service would really break the bank. But since those partitions represent about three years of work I am open to any solution that will get my information back, I don’t want to screw up (yet again) by trying to run some cheap software that won’t work and risk losing the information I know is there.