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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #15 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 8:00pm raynearcadia wrote on Jan 18^th, 2007 at 7:58pm: also, since i formatted the drive, i dont see it in XP, i cant browse it anymore. Good. You will be doing all your copying from the Recovery CD environment, not xp. Again, do NOT have both drives connected while XP is running. Only when booting from the cd.
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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #16 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 8:03pm no i have the disc, i have another question. and i must be an idiot i know.... but i just formatted the drive, its completely empty again, i now need to move the small dell utility partition and the c: drive to the unallocated space... which options should i check off for each part?
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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #17 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 8:12pm and as far as the regedit goes, i dont seem to have an E: i have A: C: D: G: H:, when i open explorer all i have is A, C,D.... what should i do about this?
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Reply #18 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 8:13pm

raynearcadia wrote on Jan 18^th, 2007 at 8:03pm:

no i have the disc, i have another question. and i must be an idiot i know.... but i just formatted the drive, its completely empty again, i now need to move the small dell utility partition and the c: drive to the unallocated space... which options should i check off for each part?

Good. You're doing fine. I'm assuming now that the new drive is NOT connected. Right? If it is, disconnect it and reboot back to XP.

Then modify your registry as I outlined previously.
Then shut down XP. Power Off.
Attach both drives, your new one as the slave.
Boot from Ghost 9 Recovery CD.

The first copy will be the Dell partition: Destination Type Primary checked.

After copying the Dell partition, return to menu and copy your c: partition and check the following:
Set drive active for starting OS
Click Primary Partition
Copy MBR

After that one complete,
Shut down pc
Remove your old drive
Change jumper settings on new drive from slave to single or master.

Boot to XP.

Hopefully this will all work.

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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #19 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 8:14pm raynearcadia wrote on Jan 18^th, 2007 at 8:12pm: and as far as the regedit goes, i dont seem to have an E: i have A: C: D: G: H:, when i open explorer all i have is A, C,D.... what should i do about this? Just to be safe, delete the G: and H: entries. It shouldn't hurt to delete all mounted devices entries.
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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #20 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 8:18pm Look at 3B pictures, reply 13 http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=11441...
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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #21 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 8:23pm so get rid of EVERYTHING in that folder
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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #22 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 8:27pm raynearcadia wrote on Jan 18^th, 2007 at 8:23pm: so get rid of EVERYTHING in that folder Using Registry Editor, navigate as shown. Then highlight all the entries to the right. All the \??\Volume\ and \DosDevices\ entries just like the picture. Then delete those registry entry data values.
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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #23 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 8:44pm I should also mention that before doing all this, I hope you have some type of backup of your data. No one anticipates problems, but sometimes they can happen when changing drives, copying from one to another etc. It's just important to be safe beforehand.
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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #24 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 10:08pm well why would any of this ruin the original hard drive? i was keeping that one as my backup
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Reply #25 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 10:15pm

raynearcadia wrote on Jan 18^th, 2007 at 10:08pm:

well why would any of this ruin the original hard drive? i was keeping that one as my backup

It shouldn't, but anytime you handle a drive or connections something could happen. I once accidently banged a hard drive just the wrong way when removing it and it failed shortly thereafter. Sometimes someone will think they are deleting a partition on the new drive and accidently delete one on the old drive. etc. etc. etc.

Always good to have backups.

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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #26 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 10:54pm what can i do then, how can i make a backup of it if its supposed to be the backup?
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Reply #27 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 11:01pm

raynearcadia wrote on Jan 18^th, 2007 at 10:54pm:

what can i do then, how can i make a backup of it if its supposed to be the backup?

As a minimum, burn cd's containing your important documents, pictures, music etc.

Ghost is used extensively to create backup-image-files of your entire hard drive. Many people buy an external USB2 hard drive for that purpose. Lots of info on this forum regarding backups.

That is a separate feature from the copy-drive feature you are doing now.

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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #28 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 11:43pm whats the best way to format a drive? i used this program called partition manager by paragon... but im not sure it did it for real
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Reply #29 - Jan 19^th, 2007 at 8:06am

raynearcadia wrote on Jan 18^th, 2007 at 11:43pm:

whats the best way to format a drive? i used this program called partition manager by paragon... but im not sure it did it for real

I've used Partition Manager from Paragon. It should work fine.

You can also use the Windows XP disk manager:
My Computer/right click/manage/disk management
Highlight the disk you want to format, and right click/format.

Again, be careful because formatting is permanent. Make double sure you have the correct drive selected. Be sure you have a backup of your critical data before formatting anything.

You DON'T want to accidently format your c: drive by mistake!

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