Norton Ghost not deleting

[fgf80]

I have a Norton Ghost image, and frankly it takes up too much space. I cannot delete it, rather I use "delete" in the filemenu, del in CMD, eraser, or even Eraser. I can boot into linux and delete it, I think, but what can I do right now? I need the space, it cannot be compressed. Even if it could be, I couldn't delete the original, and I am busy transferring to another hard drive.


Can anyone help me?

Please and thank you.

 

[Know Nuttin]

Have you tried Unlocker?

 

[fgf80]

Yes; I thought I said that, but I am mistaken. Sorry.

 

[fgf80]

It turns out it is some kind of file system error. It is formatted as FATex, but it reads as CDFS. Windows will not scan it, and I cannot copy the files dependably such as to simply delete it and repartition.

 

[fgf80]

Okay: but for future reference

I was able to clone the partition. It was listed as "unformatted", not CDFS, but for some reason it was read-only. It indicated that it was full, but it wasn't. The size was correct. The cloned partition was also flawed, but it was stable enough to delete the original, reformat as NTFS, and copy everything back. How can I prevent that in the future?

please and thank you.

 

[RGone]

Reading that thread, it seems corrupt ghost files are not that unknown. Well I guess that is a Symantec forum so would see issues reported of corruption but at least it is not unknown to Symantec.


Corrupted .GHO file - Need file format info, Neil.