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Rad Community Technical Discussion Boards (Computer Hardware + PC Software) >> Norton Ghost 15, 14, 12, 10, 9, + Norton Save + Restore (NS+R) >> Problem when copying hard drive http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1282351957 Message started by WillM on Aug 20th, 2010 at 7:52pm |
Title: Problem when copying hard drive Post by WillM on Aug 20th, 2010 at 7:52pm
Recently I have been trying to copy all the contents of my 80GB HD to a much larger 500GB HD using Ghost 10.0 on Windows XP. When the copy finished and was booted up on both HDs the screen froze and came up with the blue XP screen and a small windows logo in the middle. Anyone have a solution?
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Title: Re: Problem when copying hard drive Post by Brian on Aug 20th, 2010 at 9:06pm
@ WillM
That is a spot diagnosis. We've seen it so many times because of the poor documentation in the Ghost userguide. But let me ask you a few questions first. Did you create a partition on the new HD before you performed Copy Drive? After Copy Drive had completed, did you remove the old HD from the computer before the first boot from the new HD? Or did you boot from the new HD with both HDs in the computer? Or something else? |
Title: Re: Problem when copying hard drive Post by WillM on Aug 21st, 2010 at 7:25am
I formatted the new HD first (single partition). I never could get a successful copy of the drive by just mounting the new drive in the PC with the source drive running Ghost and copying itself to the destination drive. So, I used a second PC to do the copy - source drive and destination drive were mounted as second and third drives. I then inserted just the new drive in the PC and it booted XP then went to the small logo and froze. I then inserted the original source hard drive in to the unit and booted and it did the same thing.
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Title: Re: Problem when copying hard drive Post by Brian on Aug 21st, 2010 at 8:21am
@ WillM
Thanks for the details. The Ghost userguide is disappointing in its description of how to do Copy Drive. It should say "You must NOT copy into a partition with a drive letter". That is where a lot of people come unstuck. Copy Drive is only successful if you copy into a partition without a drive letter or if you copy into unallocated space. OK. How to fix your drive letter problem. Quite easily fortunately. Zero the Disk Signature and let WinXP reassign drive letters. Here is a cookbook approach to zeroing the Disk Signature. Two methods. 1... Using Method #3 http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/partsigs.htm#method3 Use a Win98 floppy (or a Win98SE floppy). At the A: prompt, type fdisk /mbr and press ENTER. You won't see anything happen. It just goes back to the A: prompt. As most people don't have floppy drives, you can also use a Win98 boot CD from... http://www.allbootdisks.com/download/iso.html Get the Win98SE_bootdisk.iso. Burn the ISO file with ImgBurn. Use the same method. Type fdisk /mbr at the A: prompt and press ENTER. 2... Using Clear Sig. Download BootIt NG. There is a one month trial usage. Unzip the file and make a boot CD. http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm double click makedisk.exe, next dot in I accept the agreement, next dot in Mouse Support Enabled, next dot in VESA Video, next dot in Partition Work (Don't put a dot in Normal), next don't choose any Default Device Options (if necessary, these can be chosen in BING), next leave Registration strings blank, next select your CD burner drive letter (you can use a CD-RW or a CD-R disc) Finish Boot from the CD.... the BootIt NG CD boots to the Work with Partitions window Using the radio buttons on the left side of the Work with Partitions window, select the appropriate hard drive. (It should be HD 0) click the "View MBR" button. click the "Clear Sig" button. Then click OK on the Notice. click the "Apply" button. click the "View MBR" button again and confirm the number in the left bottom corner is 0x00000000 click Cancel click Close on the "Work with Partitions" window click Reboot and remove the CD Please let us know the outcome. |
Title: Re: Problem when copying hard drive Post by WillM on Aug 21st, 2010 at 12:35pm
That worked perfectly! Thank you very much for your help :)
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