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Situation: When attempting to run an operation in Ghost that requires a reboot into the virtual partition, you receive the error "Unable to find a free MBR slot in virtual partition.dll--usually due to no free slots on disk."
Solution: This problem occurs when the client computer has used up all four primary partitions in the partition table of the boot drive. An Extended partition takes up one Primary Slot, so having three Primary partitions and one Extended partition would also cause this issue.
Computer architecture allows each hard drive to have no more than four primary partitions (the other partitions are extended partitions). Because the Ghost Virtual Partition is implemented as a primary partition, you see this message when the disk is using all four primary partitions and does not have an available slot for the virtual partition.
Use one of the following methods to resolve the problem
Start the computer from a Ghost bootable floppy disk rather than a Ghost Virtual Partition. You can use Ghost Boot Wizard to create a Ghost Standard Book Disk for this purpose.
Repartition the disk. If you repartition the disk, ensure that you create backups of your data before doing so.
Are you reffering to Norton Ghost? If so newer versions require that you install the software on the pc itself, from there you can select to do a full disk back up which will create a system image.
If you have an older version you can actually boot from the CD-ROM on system boot and create your image from there.
A ghost image can be used on only one computer the same image cannot be replicated on other machines. Create a different image for the other computers and then burn the image file to the DVD drive for future use.
Try Acronis True Image. Similar to Ghost but works better. You can create an image of your system on a separate partition. When booting your system, you can recover from this image by pressing F11. Sort of like the hidden partition some companies put on a hard drive to return it to factory state. Only you create the partition yourself.
You will have to get Nortons Ghost or PC Angel. I prefer PC Angel's Recovery Media Creator. It give you a recovery partition and the ability to create restore dvd's
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