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WinXp immediately Opens & Closes after Cloning (Read 43627 times)
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Re: WinXp immediately Opens & Closes after Cloning
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Hey taderbush,
Any news for us? We are very interested in your outcome. Others with a similar problem will benefit.
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Sorry, I gave up trying to work thru the problem. Thanks for the effort. Will have to try something else. The solutions just were not relevent to my problem. Can't understand how such a simple process (yea, I know it is very complex) can result in such difficulties. Norton Ghost should work better as I really had the classic set-up and configuration that Ghost was designed for. I try to keep things simple to avoid situations such as I encountered. Fooling with the MBR each time someone performs a simple HD to HD Clone makes the Ghost unusable for 90% of the people.
Suspect it is a Win Xp issue triggered by the cloning.
I'll trash Ghost and find something else.
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So fdisk /mbr didn't work?
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Well guess what....... Most embarassing, It did fix the problem. [blush, blush bright red] I finally found the old '98 Win boot disk and tried it booting to the floppy and it took right off after I used the command A: fdisk/mbr and re-booted to the new drive.
I formatted and updated the new drive as it has been some time, so with no changes, the drive this time was assigned the letter "G" prior to cloning.
I have learned a lesson. Listen to the experts. I'm now using the new 15K drive. I'll swap back and forth occasionally as a back-up.
Ghost has an issue there to try to fix as I can't imagine too many other folks going to this length to get it working.
Thanks again for the help. I was being a block head.
Humbly Yours,
Taderbush
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Re: WinXp immediately Opens & Closes after Cloning
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Well guess what....... Most embarassing, It did fix the problem. [blush, blush bright red]
Trust me--most of us have been there at least once--if not more times--learning how to use Ghost--glad you have resolved the problem.
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taderbush,
Great news. I'm pleased you are up and running.
It happened to me a few months ago while helping a friend upgrade to a larger laptop HD. I used images rather than a clone and I was surprised when the OS kept rebooting after entering a username and password at the Welcome Screen. I had done all those tests in the past with Ghost cloning but the drive letter issue after an image /restore surprised me. I was using Drive Snapshot for the image /restore and now I can't remember what I did wrong.
I hope you keep using Ghost 9. I'm very satisfied with its performance.
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taderbush wrote
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Ghost has an issue there to try to fix as I can't imagine too many other folks going to this length to get it working.
It's not a Ghost issue. It's a WinXP issue.
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Here's another example of a common cloning mistake: suppose XP-1 is C: on disk-1, and F: is a partition on disk-2. Then XP-1 is subsequently cloned to XP-2 on disk-2, and disk-1 is removed. Again, XP-2 will recognize its partition was previously given a drive letter and will keep it. The boot process may hang (usually at the login or blue "Welcome" screen) while XP-2 searches in vain for "drive C:".
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do not let old-XP see the new partition before cloning.
Doing so would give XP a chance to assign a drive letter, it will be remembered by the registry when it is cloned, and the clone will adopt the wrong drive letter for itself.
The solution is to clone into Unallocated Space. It works first time, every time.
taderbush,
How are you finding the "speed" of that 15000 rpm HD? Is it subjectively faster than the 10000 rpm? I haven't used HDs like these.
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The 15K SCSI HD is nice. But it is noticably faster over the 10K machine which is also quite speedy. Where it would have a "wow" factor I think would be over a 7200 RPM IDE drive. I only paid $25 for it new at a swap meet. Which is cheaper than the Ghost program. Everyone thinks they need a 200+GB HD and that is making some of these older SCSI fast HD's pretty cheap. I'm worried about reliability of these fast machines however, as I have had two 10K HD's crap out.
I have a fan attached to it so I hope it lasts.
Now I better get a new motherboard and really fast CPU. I'm running an ASUS A8V MB and a 3500 AMD 64 bit CPU.
Again thanks for the help and advice.
Bill
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Bill, how about the HD noise? Is it much different from a 7200 rpm HD?
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The 15K Seagate HD is actually quite quiet. Nothing objectionable. I hear more noise in the fans (six of them) than the HD. Very nice and quiet HD. The SCSI interface sometimes is a pain to administer. Think SCSI is going away with the new RAID set-ups.
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