Ghost crashed windows xp

I have a very limited sample size- just one Windows 10 computer and one Windows XP computer, in fact. My Windows 10 system is probably one of the strangest and least compatible systems out there, but it did well anyway.

Using two very different hardware platforms renders any performance comparisons meaningless, but the intent here was never to test performance. It was to see if older games could run on a modern PC. To test performance, we would need to run both operating systems on the same computer, and preferably a clean install of each. I put no special effort into installing each game to the same location on my laptop, which has three drives available or shutting down background tasks. This turned out okay for compatibility testing, but would be A Very Bad Thing for performance testing.

I put a reasonable effort into getting each game to work, but not a herculean one. It might be possible with enough time and effort to get all these games working perfectly on Windows Every game I tested was playable or could be made playable on Windows While my testing was limited in some ways, I feel fairly safe proclaiming this.

If you want to get an absolutely perfect experience, especially on a few troublesome games, a dedicated machine running Windows XP will get you that. In some cases, it might actually work better. PCGamingWiki and play-old-pc-games.

I decided to test it, which took a lot of work but yielded some surprising results! Setup I used two different test computers for this setup. Limitations This is not the end-all be-all of tests. Conclusion Every game I tested was playable or could be made playable on Windows Acknowledgements PCGamingWiki and play-old-pc-games. One of the reasons I kept FAT32 around was for easy boot access in case of a crash and I needed to pull files off the drive.

With a maximum of 32 KB per cluster with space for the file allocation table FAT , this equates to a maximum disk size of approximately 8 terabytes TB. As for the other two drives, they are regular hard drives and they are not in a RAID array but they are on different controllers.

Thanks for the update. It was not the size of the drive which made it look wrong, it was the fact that one section identified the same drive with a partition type of NTFS instead of FAT But after looking at some more examples I believe this section where it says NTFS can be written in by something other than the OS so this may be ok after all. Apart from the error code of 0x8e were you able to get any wording and other hex codes from the BSOD?

Also, please check the Windows System and Application events and see if there is anything relevant posted at around the time of the BSOD. Also, please check the Windows device manager and see if all hardware devices are operating normally.

Windows should automatically expand any section which has any sort of problem to make it readily apparent. I had asked earlier if you had tried doing a backup from the Ghost recovery environment.

Can you try this and does it work? Ghost "works" from the recovery as far as I can tell but I haven't tried all the options, just defining a backup is all I've done You can attach the JPG directly by clicking on the at the top of your reply editor. It will take a bit before I can see it though, because it has to be approved by a forum moderator before being published.

The question regarding whether you can do the backup from the recovery environment is just a data point. It is not intended to be a proposed solution. I am not from Symantec so I won't be able to analyze the dump in its entirety.

Let's see what the BSOD information reveals when it becomes visible and we'll go from there. I think Allen is into something. It is analagous to this thread Back to top. Mono22 Contributor 4. Reg: Jun Kudos 0. I can't use ghost without it crashing, it always crashes when it starts the backup process and you see the progress bar at the exact same place so I can't even use it : Also why is there no hard drive copy on the recovery boot disk??

Anyway, who I talk to to sent the crash dump info? I have the same question 0. AllenM Guru Norton Fighter Reg: Dec Hi Mono22, Welcome to the Norton Community.

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