I clicked on the failed operation to select it, then clicked on View and selected Event details. I then saw a message indicating W's disk drive had too many partitions on it to be backed up with Norton Ghost.
| Event Details |
| Details for: To Virtual Partition Client drive has too many partitions to use the Virtual Partition |
Checking the partitions (Start, Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, and then selecting Disk Management), I saw four primary paritions on the drive, which is the maximum number of primary partitions a drive can hold. Windows XP recognized two of those, which it designated drives C and D. Windows XP did not recognize the other two. The system is a Dell system and one is likely the utility partition. The first is a 39 MB partition, which Disk Management showed as "EISA Configuration". The other, a 3.57 GB partition, was listed as "Unknown". That partition is likely the utility partition. For Dell systems, one can normally boot to a utility partition to run diagnostics on the system.
Since drive D was a parition I had been using to store backups with another later version of Norton Ghost that came with the system, but which had expired and which I had removed, I deleted that partition by right-clicking in the partition under Disk Management and choosing "Delete Partition". I was then able to go back to the server on which I was running Symantec Ghost Console and restart the image backup of the drive successfully.