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Bill_B
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Importing Ghost 9 Image Disk Required Incorrect

The import of a Ghost 9 image fails because the disk requiements are not correct. The import log shows the source space as follows:

\[2006-03-22 10:13:18.381 'App' 5060 info] \[localImportSource,147] Source capacity=101014663680 Source space used=101014663680

\[2006-03-22 10:13:18.381 'App' 5060 info] \[localImportDestination,122] Available space=19731525632 Required space=101014663680

The source partition size in use is 13GB but the required space above is 101GB. I have 19GB available on the target drive so I should have plenty of space. Is this a bug or am I reading it wrong.

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GRedner
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The beta does not check disk space correctly for Ghost images.

Does the image you are importing perhaps have a 101GB virtual disk, of which only 13GB is filled? If that were the case, this behavior would be expected.

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Bill_B
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I booted my system to a bootable partition that is 20GB in size. I then created a backup of the partition using Ghost 9. None of it is a virtual machine. My objective here is to create a virtual machine from a bootable partition.

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GRedner
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Hmm.

What was the size of the physical disk that hosted the partition you ghosted?

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Bill_B
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The formatted size is 76.316 GB. It is an 80GB drive. The type is NTFS.

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Bill_B
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Has this issue been dropped. I never received a response to my previous post. Please advise on what I may provide to resolve the disk requirement issue.

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gautam
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We believe you are hitting a known issue regarding disk space checking for Ghost images that we will fix in the official release. Meanwhile can you try importing this image to a destination drive (preferably not on a network share) with a capacity greater than 20GB ?

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