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I'm following the steps to create a vmdk from a ghost image I have, I type in the command as written, with my ghost and vmdk file names placed where necessary.

ghost32 -clone,mode=restore,src=my.gho,dst=myimage.vmdk -batch -sure

Ghost boots up and it converts fine, but when it gets to 99% and essentially completes creation of the .vmdk, I get the following error:

ABORT: 40221, A virtual disk error occurred: Failed to write sectors to vmdk extent.

How do I fix this error? The ghost image can be applied to machines with no issues, ie the ghost image is not corrupted or unusable, so I'm not sure what the issue is here.

Thanks for your help ! Don't hold your breath for the update though, the original poster is probably no longer a symantec employee.

Hi,

Just to warn there is an error on the command syntax on both the sections "To create a VMDK file form machine directly" and "To restore VMDK image on machine directly". I can see from the comments people experienced the same error that I did but thought problem was something else.

Basically there is no -vmdk switch, the error message even tells you that!!! the right switch is -batch. In fact if you compare the syntax above (the part about converting) then it is obvious.

After I got the error when I typed

Ghost32 –clone,mode=create,src=1,dst=myimage.vmdk  -vmdk -sure 

Just changed to 

Ghost32 –clone,mode=create,src=1,dst=myimage.vmdk  -batch -sure 

and it worked!

I haven't tried creating from vmdk to machine directly (yet) but seems pretty obvious you need to use -batch instead of -vmdk.

Can you please update the page so other users won't experience some of the issues anymore?

Thanks,

Helder

Hi

I am pretty new to virtual machines but have been using ghost for some years. I followed the instructions to create a vmdk file from a gho file and it worked first time with no problems. My question now is how do I use the vmdk file to create a virtual machine that I can use on vmware player 6?

Martin

Im getting "Operating system not found"

I created my vmdk file, from ghost files of a win 7 operating system, using the command line, without a hitch.

When i try to load it in VmWare, i get no operating system found.

What might the issue be??

I had previously created a vmdk file from a ghost files  of an XP operating system, using the same steps, and it loads and works fine in the same player.

how to convert a gho file which protected by password?

Gorge,

Good to see that your problem is resolved by yourself. For safer side, I would recommend you to take snapshot of this vm as well as gho image so that if anything goes wrong you should have backup images. It depends on how important is the image for you.  

Happy new year you too...

Hi Nitin. Thanks for the response.

That's what I ended up doing. The image I had was spanned into 4 CD's, the first one was damaged.

To first, to recover the CD I used the software CD Recovery Toolbox Free (http://download.cnet.com/CD-Recovery-Toolbox-Free/3000-2352_4-10646814.html), to succesfully extract the .GHO. Once done that I copied all four .GHO on a single folder and opened the first file with the Ghost Explorer.

With Ghost Explorer, what I did was re compile the image into one file. This file, I was unable to do the conversion process covered in this thread, it just continued saying that the image was corrupt. Then, with the Ghost Boot Wizard I generated a new bootable media to install the image over Linux environment. This worked fine, the bootable recovery was done complete.

Just to add more to the case, this was done on a previously created virtual machine and there was an issue at OS boot, I believe because of hardware differences. So, then, with the image loaded in the virtual machine, I booted with a VM compatible recovery image generator and obtained a new image file. This then was converted with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone software to a completely new virtual machine. And that was it, I got a fully working virtual machin of the original image.

Hope this helps somebody. Have a happy new year everyone.

Jorge

Hi Jorge,

You can try to open the image using Ghost Explorer. If it gives same error message of image corrupt then it is very difficult to retrieve the data.

Hello. I have an old backup image created in .gho format that appears to be damaged. I intend to convert it to use it as a virtual machine, but the conversion process covered here throws me an error saying that my image is corrupt and then abort the operation.

Is there a tool or something that could help me recover this old image???

Thanks in advance.

Jorge

Hi! Is it posible to convert a .gho to .vmdk with a trial version of Symantec Ghost? When I try to do it using the commmand lines mentioned before, after some time it aborts saying that Ghost32 can be used only from Symantec Ghost Console. The menus and options to create the .vmdk from the .gho are not clear to me

Thanks!

Roger.

It is not possible to covert an encrypted ghost image to vmdk

I'm trying to convert a encrypted .gho file to a .vmdk.  Is this possible?

I use Ghost32.exe 11.5 version.

GHO to VMDK

CMD==> ghost32 -clone,mode=restore,src=my.gho,dst=myimage.vmdk -batch -sure 

1.How to deceide my restore disk space? => I check VM always get C disk has 120GB

2.How to split the VMDK file? Like from one to two or three file.

VMDK (5GB) => split => VMDK1(2GB) +VMDK2(2GB)+VMDK3(1GB)

commands are OK, but you version of ghost32.exe is not.

when I use ghost32.exe with version 11.0.1.1533 I get the same error

when I use ghost32.exe with version 11.5.0.2113 everything works fine and I can use the vmdk with vmware

Need help troubleshooting the conversion of gho to vmdk format?

Not sure why it is complaining invalid destination drive.

Is it a 8.3 DOS thing?

My goal to clone gho image to vmdk so I can test the image.

Suggestion what are solution to convert gho to vmdk within ghost.exe command line.

I know that Vmware local converter has an option to restore from synmetic sv2i  format.

error mesage I'm getting.

O:\>ghost32.exe -clone,mode=restore,src="P:\1.0.2\x64\X64Cgm102.GHO",dst="F:\win
7\x64\vmdk\win7x64.vmdk" -batch -sure

ABORT: 11030, Invalid destination drive

Hi, I have an image file created with Ghost2003. I would like to create from this image a virtual disk for VMware. I have downloaded VMware vCenter Converter SA, but it does not support .gho files. How can I do it?

Details: The original machine has dead and I changed the motherboard in it and done I full reinstall. Before I reinstalled the OS (XP Prof) I have made a Ghost2003 image of the system. So I have a .gho image and I want to create a virtual machine in VMware.

Thanx!