Trying to make a backup image of my 7422GX

have u checked this?
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...=docid&seg=hho

cheers ...

No I can't say that I have done it the way your trying to do it, but, I have Norton Ghost 2003, and when I got my new 80GB 7200RPM Notebook HD all I did was Clone My Old 80GB 4200RPM HD onto the new one, I only used the USB HD Caddy that came with the new HD, Why don't you just CLONE your old drive onto the External HD without using USB 2.0 and Firewire assign letters, I didn't use any of them, and it worked out just fine for me, give that a try & see how it works, now as for USB HD booting, if that external HD DOSEN"T support that fuction you won't be able to do that, I know you don't want to hear that, but it's ture, at the very least just throw a DVD-RW into your Notebooks Drive and copy your whole Notebook HD onto that DVD-RW DISC using your Norton Ghost 2003 , YES, I have backup my whole HD onto a DVD-RW 4.7GB Disc, I have even used a Dual Layer DVD Disc, but the size of my Windows XP is only 5GB WOW I must say 22GB is VERY LARGE, that would take about 4 DVD's if you wanted to backup all of that, What do you have on your Notebook's HD that's so big?........ Good Luck.......... post back & let us all know how well it worked out for you

First of all, have you run LiveUpdate to make sure you have the latest Ghost updates?

I personally haven't run into that exact problem, but you may want to consider an alternative backup solution. I use BartPE with the DriveImageXML plugin to do backups to hard drives. BartPE is basically a bootable Windows CD that runs plugins that you add before you burn the boot disc. I've found it to be faster and more reliable for doing clones to hard drive than Ghost. I have a good success rate with burning backup discs with Ghost, but I've encountered more problems when backing up to another hard drive. I'm not sure if it's due to the large size of the file, the formatting on the drive, or what. However, I have used BartPE to successfully clone over 70 gigs of data to a new hard drive in my friend's laptop, so you should be good to go with it. All you need is a blank CD and a Windows disc, plus the software I mentioned above. Here are the links:

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

http://www.runtime.org/peb.htm

Download both apps, install BartPE, add the DriveImageXML file as a plugin, insert your Windows disc, and have it create an image. From there, burn it to a CD and reboot to the CD (it will run while Windows is running, but you will get a better copy if you reboot into the CD instead of doing it while Windows is running). Open DriveImageXML and follow the instructions, it's pretty simple. You can also specify what size chunks to break the image into if you're having trouble with a lot of data.

Try using a (DVD-RW 4.7GB Disc)or a (DVD-RW-DL Disc) my HD only is 5.6GB LARGE, so a DVD-RW 4.7GB worked for me using Norton Gost 2003 , if you keep getting the same error message, maybe your old HD has errors on it, try doing a scandisk or a chkdisk at Windows-bootup to scan for errors, you can also FIX errors on your disk as well, ................You should read THIS: http://ghost.radified.com/ it may help?

Like I stated in an earlier post, if that external HD doesn't support booting-up of windows, then there's really nothing you can do about that, NOT all extenrnal Drives support this? at the very least, you may be able to find out if that drive will support this, ...........maybe it has a manufacture's website? it's always a good idea before you spend GOOD money to do some research about what a product will and will NOT do before you buy it

If Your 7422GX BIOS doesn't support USB HD Booting, (Most all of them don't support this) you cannot boot form that WD 320GB Drive, but, if Norton Ghost 2003 doesn't support that 320GB USB HD, then , you won't be able to use Norton Ghost 2003 to do a backup ,that is why you keep getting the same ole error message, why don't you just use the WD 320GB Backup program (Software included: EMC Retrospect Express Backup and System Recovery Software (on the WD 320GB drive), now that should work, but, it won't be bootable if your BIOS doesn't support it.........................I'd just put all of your data on that drive, then, you could do a Restore of your OS with your 7422GX's Restore DVD, that way you can always get to your SAVED data on the other WD 320GB USB drive