Re: [Hampshire] Read a PQI file?

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Author: m.nuttall
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Read a PQI file?
Quoting john <jee@???>:

> On Thursday 15 November 2007 17:15:44 Vic wrote:
> > Hi All.
> >
> > A friend of mine has just rung me with a tricky problem...
> >
> > He's got a Windows machine that's been imaged with Symantec Ghost. It's
> > failed - and the image file appears to be corrupt (Ghost restore proggy
> > won't read it).
> >
> > Does anyone know of any Linux utilities that will read a PQI file? The
> > more of this we can recover, the better...
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Vic.
>
> Symantec Ghost is known for corrupt PQI files. There is no check by symantec
>
> Ghost of the PQI files. Check the memory of the computer with the PQI file
> on it. It could be that you have a memory problem.
>
> In future advise the friend to use Acronis which has a backup checking
> utility.


VCom? or powerquests? imaging utility used to produce pqi files while the ghost
i use produces gho files. I did use it before i switched to ghost so you could
try that to see if it recognises the image file.

Martin N

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