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Title: Need help ghosting XP Post by Yamovitch on Apr 20th, 2006 at 6:54am
So, the plan was to use ghost suite (very cool, might I add) to move Win XP and data from a 20Gd drive to an 80Gb that's currently installed in a notebook. What I did was to pull the smaller drive out of the notebook, connect it to IDE controller of a desktop, along with the new drive (both on different IDE channels), boot Ghost from CDR, and do the deed.
Now, the transfer seemed to go okay. Ghost says it was successful and verified correctly. I tested the OLD drive in the notebook-- it still boots okay. The NEW drive, however, when installed in the notebook, only gives me a blinking cursor in the upper l.h. corner. I'm sure this is a common XP problem with Ghost, but after looking through the posts here I seem to have missed the solution. Anyone have any thoughts? Can you point me to the appropirate links? Thanks |
Title: Re: Need help ghosting XP Post by Brian on Apr 20th, 2006 at 7:25am
Yamovitch,
I just need to ask a few questions. Was it Ghost 8.* that you used to do a clone from small to large HD? How did you verify? I thought you could only verify images, not clones. I've never used Ghost 8.* for a clone so you may be correct. What choices (Disk, Partition) did you make with Ghost? After the POST there is just a blinking cursor, no other WinXP activity? |
Title: Re: Need help ghosting XP Post by ChelseaOilman on Apr 21st, 2006 at 10:29pm
I'm having the exact same issue. I've used Ghost 2003 many times to clone HDDs on computers I've built and never had a problem. Now when I tried to clone the HDD on my IBM Thinkpad T42 all I get is the blinking cursor from the clone. It seems the MBR is missing. Just like Yamovitch, I cloned the drive in a desktop machine. The original drive will boot, but the clone won't when I tried them in the notebook. Since the cloned drive doesn't boot I thought I would install it as a second drive in the notebook to see if all the files are present. They are.
This is what they look like in Disk Management. I never cloned a drive that had a hidden service partition. Is that what's screwing things up? Any ideas how to fix this? Maybe run repair console and FixMBR or FixBoot? I've never done that before so not quite sure about how to do it. When I Googled I found at least one other person trying to find a solution to this problem here. I don't know if there's an answer there, you have to pay to find out. TIA for any help I can get. |
Title: Re: Need help ghosting XP Post by Brian on Apr 22nd, 2006 at 1:59am
ChelseaOilman,
Concerning http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Q_21731231.html Just scroll down the page for the replies. Don't click "View Solution". Repeat the clone and if it doesn't boot try Method #3. http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/partsigs.htm#method3 |
Title: Re: Need help ghosting XP Post by ChelseaOilman on Apr 22nd, 2006 at 10:01am Brian wrote on Apr 22nd, 2006 at 1:59am:
LOL, that's so funny! The answers are right there and I didn't notice. :-[ I have a day off from work Sunday, so I'll try again to get the drive working then. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks for the help. Carl |
Title: Re: Need help ghosting XP Post by ChelseaOilman on Apr 25th, 2006 at 1:05pm
So far things aren't going to well. :(
I did a long post with lots of information only to be greeted with a page timed out message when I hit the submit button. >:( I have to go to work in a few minutes so I don't have time right now to redo the post. Quick question, why doesn't Ghost 2003, or Ghost 10 see the second hard disk when I tried to clone on the laptop? While in Windows, device manager, disk manager, and Windows Explorer can all see the second drive. I guess I'm stuck only being able to clone the drive by moving both drives to my desktop computer. Carl |
Title: Re: Need help ghosting XP Post by Dan Goodell on Apr 25th, 2006 at 5:14pm
"Now when I tried to clone the HDD on my IBM Thinkpad T42 all I get is the blinking cursor from the clone."
"What I did was to pull the smaller drive out of the notebook, connect it to IDE controller of a desktop, along with the new drive (both on different IDE channels), boot Ghost from CDR, and do the deed." Can't do it that way. For details, see: http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=1128609708;start=14#14 |
Title: Re: Need help ghosting XP Post by ChelseaOilman on May 6th, 2006 at 10:19pm
Thanks for that link, Dan. It helped me get on the right track. I did finally get my cloned drive to boot. I found a page at IBM that gave me the final bit of info I needed to make it work.
Partition does not boot after being restored with Norton Ghost Quote:
I don't know why I didn't search their site earlier. I guess I didn't expect them to give tips on how to use Norton Ghost. :-[ Carl |
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