Using Ghost Explorer to modify image file contents
If Ghost Explorer reports a corruption in your image file, you may be able to get further details of the nature of the corruption. Normally, you would only use these options when asked to do so by Ghost Explorer Technical Support. Start the program with one of the following arguments: -d1
Reports on corruptions or significant events in FAT file systems.
-d2
Reports on corruptions or significant events in NTFS file systems.
-d4
Reports on corruptions or significant events in Ext2 files.
The reports are presented to you as dialog boxes. You can use all switches, or use -d7 to turn on all options. Ghost Explorer has a batch mode in which it carries out a single command and then exits. In this version, batch mode supports the saving of the contents to a text file only. To use this mode, specify one of the following switches: -t
Save the list of directories in the dump file to a file with the same name as the image file but with an extension of .txt.
-tf
Save a list of directories and files.
-tv
Save a verbose listing of directories and files.
-t[vf]=filename
Save the list to the file specified.
For more information, see “Saving a list of contents of an image file� on page 54. If Ghost Explorer reports that a spanned or split image is corrupt without prompting for the second part of the image, it may not recognize that the image is split. Starting with the -split argument forces Ghost Explorer to treat an image as a split image. The image index created by versions of Norton Ghost prior to 5.1c did not handle long file names containing double byte characters correctly, such as file names in Asian or Eastern European languages. Ghost Explorer may be able to show these names properly by reading them directly from the image file instead of from the index. However, the loading of the image is much slower. Use the switch -ignoreindex to force this behavior.
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