This is definitely the first time I've seen a problem reported. I must say I'm shocked ("surprised" is too mild a word) to hear about *any* problems with Ghost. Thanks for any information on this topic! It would be very useful to know the maximum size limit for Ghost 2003, and steps one could take (repartitioning, etc.) to compensate. Of course the new HDD was empty so the image was written well below any "hard size limit". I had a lot of difficulty getting various DOS USB drivers to recognize the large HDD (I believe I did get some "divide overflow" errors), but once I managed to do so, Ghost 2003 did not have any problems writing the image to the drive. I personally do not have a HDD in this size range to test and experiment around with, but recently I helped a friend make a Ghost image backup to his new 1 TB NTFS-formatted external HDD. I was wondering if anyone knows anything about similar limitations of Norton Ghost 2003 (a DOS program)? Web searches and anecdotal reports indicate problems with HDDs in the 1 TB to 1.5 TB range with "divide overflow" errors often mentioned, but I have not seen anything definitive. Recently there has been a lot of excellent technical discussions about the limitations of various utility programs (FDISK, FORMAT, SCANDISK, Norton Disk Doctor, etc.) vs.
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