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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #30 - Jan 19^th, 2007 at 8:14am Disk drives don't have to be pre-formatted to use the Copy-Drive feature of Ghost 9. A new blank unformatted disk works fine. It's the preferred way to copy-drive. However, since you previously used the drive, you have to delete the partitions that are on it and/or format it.
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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #31 - Jan 19^th, 2007 at 8:25am well i deleted all partitions in Paragon then i formatted partition... is this the proper way to do this?
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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #32 - Jan 19^th, 2007 at 8:32am raynearcadia wrote on Jan 19^th, 2007 at 8:25am: well i deleted all partitions in Paragon then i formatted partition... is this the proper way to do this? That's fine. Then follow the procedures previously outlined.
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Reply #33 - Jan 19^th, 2007 at 9:13am

ok im gonna do all this... thanks so much for ur help.... if this dont work then im not sure what i will do.... btw, and maybe this is just cause the way i did it, but i just wanna make this clear before i go do this one more time so u understand... originally i copied disk to disk in windows, all partitions(which i now know was wrong) but the when it was done, i could see both HDD in my computer and in bios, the new one as a secondary, the main one as the master. when i shutdown, and removed the master original and moved the secondary to its spot and set it as master, i booted and the bios wouldnt recognize it. that was my original problem. it was recognized as a secondary, but not as a main. now hopefully, my problem was that i didnt do it right(bootfrom cd instead) and this will fix all that.

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Reply #34 - Jan 19^th, 2007 at 9:27am

raynearcadia wrote on Jan 19^th, 2007 at 9:13am:

now hopefully, my problem was that i didnt do it right(bootfrom cd instead) and this will fix all that.

Correct. Normally it wouldn't be this complicated. You would take a new blank unused unformatted disk that you just purchased, read chapter 7 of the manual, and boot from the cd.

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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #35 - Jan 19^th, 2007 at 9:31am If for some reason, you get an error message or some problem when you boot from your new drive (with your old one REMOVED), just write the message down etc. Then remove your new drive, hook up your old drive, and post the results here. Don't boot into XP with BOTH drives connected.
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Reply #36 - Jan 19^th, 2007 at 9:52am

ok i have a worse problem now... first idk what im doing in this recovery disk, which options do i pick? and secondly i dont think it even identified the new hard drive.. windows doesnt either now... bios did but nothing else does. paragon does but its just all unallocated space.... when i opened up recovery disk i had 3 drives, the cd, the c: and then this wierd ms-ram z: drive is that the hard drive? idk what was with that. but which option do i pick when im in the recovery disk?

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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #37 - Jan 19^th, 2007 at 10:27am i dont think there is any copy from hdd to hdd in the recovery disk... am i wrong? it seemed like i could only use previously made images, and what not...
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Reply #38 - Jan 19^th, 2007 at 11:47am

raynearcadia wrote on Jan 19^th, 2007 at 10:27am:

i dont think there is any copy from hdd to hdd in the recovery disk... am i wrong? it seemed like i could only use previously made images, and what not...

You're right. I'm sorry for the confusion. It's been awhile since I used the copy-disk option of Ghost 9.

The copy-disk feature is from the Windows XP option in Ghost 9, so you won't need the the Recovery CD.

To recap then (and again sorry for the confusion):

1. Connect your old drive as master, and new as slave.
2. Boot to XP
3. Verify with XP Disk Manager that both disks appear. Your new slave drive should be shown, but without a drive letter. That is correct. There should be NO drive letter assigned to new hard drive. If there are any partitions on the new drive, delete them. Be sure you are selecting the correct drive!
4. Follow the Registry edit changes previously outlined. Close Registry editor.
5. Start Ghost 9
6. Select Tools/Copy-Drive. Copy dell partition, then c: partition. Use options I mentioned previously.
7. close Ghost 9.
8. Shut down XP immediately.
9. Remove old hard drive.
10. Change new hard drive to master/single.
11. Boot new hard drive.

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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #39 - Jan 19^th, 2007 at 1:09pm ok that didnt work... again same problem.... it says PXE-E61 media failure, check cables when i put the new drive in by itself... and for whatever reason, when i coppied it made a partition exactly the same size as the original c: drive but i have all this unallocated space that isnt usable still.....
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Reply #40 - Jan 19^th, 2007 at 4:11pm

raynearcadia wrote on Jan 19^th, 2007 at 1:09pm:

ok that didnt work... again same problem.... it says PXE-E61 media failure, check cables when i put the new drive in by itself... and for whatever reason, when i copied it made a partition exactly the same size as the original c: drive but i have all this unallocated space that isnt usable still.....

Does your pc support large hard drives? I noticed your original drive is 30gb which makes me think that it is an older pc and it is possible that your bios does not recognize the larger drive size. Go to the website for your pc and look for bios updates and be sure you have installed the latest one.

Unfortunately if you do find a newer bios, you will have to delete the partitions, and start over and try again. At least now you know how to do it.

Also, when you copy the c: partition, check the option "resize drive to fill unallocated space" as well as the other options previously mentioned. That will expand the c: partition to fill up the rest of the drive.

Also look here for other hints about your error message:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=PXE-E61+media+failure

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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #41 - Jan 19^th, 2007 at 4:41pm Is your old hard drive set to cable select or master? What did you set your new hard drive to? Just saw some postings about improper settings. http://www.nocrash.com/ncbbs/msgs/3247.shtml
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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #42 - Jan 20^th, 2007 at 9:18am How old is your PC? The reason I ask is that there was a pc technology change 4 or 5 years ago to support hard drives larger than 137 gb. Many pc's manufacturers had bios updates required in order to access these drives. http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/size.htm
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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #43 - Jan 20^th, 2007 at 9:21am ok i finally got it to work, i used partition manager tocopy entire disk and it worked perfectly. thanks for all ur help but i think the paragon thing was better than ghost 9. and it only took 30 minutes to copy.
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	Re: Ghost 9 Copy Disk will not boot! Reply #44 - Jan 20^th, 2007 at 9:23am one other thing, the new hard drive randomly makes a clicking noise. like a "click-clock" sound every once in a while. is this bad?
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