[bookport] Re: Possible conflict between Bookport Transfer and Norton Ghost

  • From: "Richard Ring" <ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:25:50 -0600

I had no end of trouble with that software as well, finally uninstalled
it as it clearly caused my system to run much slower.

-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sandy Licht
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:22 AM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: Possible conflict between Bookport Transfer and
Norton Ghost


I certainly agree!!!!  First time I used Norton System Works, my
computer 
crashed, and I had to reformat my hard drive.



At 08:10 AM 1/20/2006, you wrote:
>Isn't there a conflict between Norton and computers working well in 
>general? <smile>
>
>
>
>At 07:40 AM 1/20/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>>In thinking more about this, I suspect that by unplugging the drive
and
>>plugging in the bp, Ghost mistakenly saw the bp as the j drive as it
>>probably was assigned the same letter by the os and crashed.  If so, I
>>am still not sure why the other issues followed from that.
>>If this is the case, is there a way to permanently assign the bp a
>>letter which will not interfere with Ghost?
>>
>>Don
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barrett, Don
>>Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 7:33 AM
>>To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [bookport] Possible conflict between Bookport Transfer and
>>Norton Ghost
>>
>>I am running Windows XP Pro and installed Norton Ghost two days ago
>>using an external drive j as my backup device.
>>1. When I went to transfer some files to the bp last night, before
they
>>transferred, I got some quick messages on the PC something like
"unable
>>to create j:\ . . ." and then I lost the message so can't fully
>>replicate it here.  However, it seemed as if Ghost was interfering
with
>>BP transfer. I didn't update to the latest beta at the time as I was
in
>>a hurry and after the strange unable to create messages, the files did
>>transfer successfully to the bookport.
>>
>>2. After the files transferred successfully, I replugged in the j
drive
>>to the usb port; it is not recognized at all now by the operating
system
>>or Ghost.  When I plug or unplug the j drive into the usb port, I do
not
>>hear the telltale dunk-dunk which signifies that the drive is mounted
or
>>unmounted.
>>
>>3. This morning, I went to update the book port transfer software and
>>got something very close to the following message:
>>
>>"Error dialog
>>c:\program files\aph\book port transfer\perflib_perfdata_694.dat The
>>process cannot access the file because it is being used by another
>>process.
>>abort, retry, ignore (not recommended) or cancel"
>>
>>Can anyone shed some light on possible causes/cures for this
situation;
>>I now have no j drive, no backup, can't update the bp transfer
software.
>>Thanks for any help.
>>
>>Don
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