Running Ghost Manually to fix Error: Unable to locate enough contiguous free space to load run.

Products

• Ghost Solution Suite
• Deployment Solution
• IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

This can potentially solve certain issues or it can just be another method for running Ghost.  This can allow you to manually run Ghost and enter command line switches
during automation.  During Automation, the following pop up window with the following error displayed:

Error Number: 25058
Message: Unable to locate enough contiguous free space to load run.
Increase the destination partition size or
run Ghost with -NTEXACT switch.

 

Resolution

In GSS select a wait task and send it to a client and boot it into Winpe. Open the command prompt window (either minimized or in the background) sitting at the drive letter mapped back to the "express share" on the GSS server ("M:" by default). At the command prompt, run the following:

ghost64 -ntexact -ntil -ntic

-or-

ghost32 -ntexact -ntil -ntic

Depending on whether the client system is 32bit or 64 bit.

If you would like to add these commands to your Imaging Tasks or Jobs, please see this KB: 163968

Another solution is to wipe the drive before imaging;

using GDisk:

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/163015/using-ghost-solution-suite-3x-to-execute.html

-OR-

Using Diskpart script:

echo SELECT DISK 0 >> x:\diskpart.txt
echo CLEAN >> x:\diskpart.txt
echo EXIT >> x:\diskpart.txt
Diskpart /s x:\diskpart.exe