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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #150 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 3:49am Boot that XP and run chkdsk /f. This is a pain. Damn.
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #151 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 3:53am Brian wrote on Apr 4^th, 2010 at 3:49am: This is a pain. Damn. Yeah - but I think it brings to light the need to use an imaging tool that can handle unlimited primary partitions. Or, just have 4 primary partitions and finagle the XP between 2 different images that restore on the same partition.
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #152 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 3:55am It certainly excludes Ghost. Did that XP boot OK?
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Reply #153 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 3:59am

Okay, chkdsk/f ran and fixed the errors.

I'm back in Partition Work and this time if I try to resize XP_SP2, no errors come up. So I am now resizing, sliding and enlarging.

It's funny, I can handle Ghost and Vista/Win7, and I could see setting up ghost for SP2/SP3, but I'd have no way to restore Vista or SP3.

Man. I had no idea how difficult this would be. Sorry y'all.

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Reply #154 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:02am

Brian wrote on Apr 4^th, 2010 at 3:55am:

Did that XP boot OK?

I am still working on sliding enough to disk space to at least make XP_SP3 the same size if not larger than before.

My guess is with yours - it should boot at that point.

That leaves me with some unexpected boot menu items post BING boot menu window. But 1 thing at a time of course.

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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #155 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:04am I didn't know Ghost would be such a problem. At least we have almost fixed the problems. You asked about BING images. I'm not sure what you meant. At least BING will image and restore all partitions without problems.
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Reply #156 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:08am

Brian wrote on Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:04am:

At least BING will image and restore all partitions without problems.

That's what I meant.

I have no problem using to BING to manage my backups and restores.

You had mentioned earlier about getting back to me on how to restore using BING. I'd like to hear more on that when you're up to it.

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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #157 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:11am I did that. Reply #124.
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Reply #158 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:16am

Brian wrote on Apr 4^th, 2010 at 3:55am:

Did that XP boot OK?

So it looks like either I didn't move just quite enough, or that XP_SP3 partition is toast.

It still fails just after that old WIndows controlled Dual XP boot menu that has suddenly starting presenting after the BING boot menu.

No such menu for SP2 or Win7.

So, I think I have some repair work to knock out and keep me busy for a while.

Friggen Ghost, eh?

Well, I guess it sure beats the old sharp stick in the eye trick.

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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #159 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:17am Brian wrote on Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:11am: I did that. Reply #124. My apologies, Brian.
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #160 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:20am bill wrote on Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:16am: It still fails just after that old WIndows controlled Dual XP boot menu that has suddenly starting presenting after the BING boot menu. Do either choice boot?
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	Re: Ghosting Triple Win Boot Configurations Reply #161 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:39am Partition 2 is fine. The second XP. I'm getting confused with your naming so temporarily I'll call them P1 and P2. Is P1 still a problem? It is the one with the dual boot menu. What is the error message?
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Reply #162 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 11:34am

Top o' the morning Brian! Happy Easter to you and all -

Brian wrote on Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:39am:

s P1 still a problem? It is the one with the dual boot menu. What is the error message?

Sorry for the confusion, I have the drives named according the "flavor" of Windows XP I had installed (SP2 = Service Pack 2). So -

P1 = XP_SP3 (XP w/ Service Pack 3) = the partition we made by creating a copy of the fresh XP basic install into the 26G partition.

P2 - XP_SP2 running on the 6Gb partition.

And there's no error, once I click Windows XP Professional in the boot menu, I get a blank screen and nothing else.

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Reply #163 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 11:38am

Brian wrote on Apr 4^th, 2010 at 4:20am:

Do either choice boot?

Negative. BOth will do the same thing... from the BING menu, I click on that WinXP install I want, I get the dual OS boot menu, and both fail to boot - I go to a blank screen (no cursor, no boot sequence) and must restart by disconnecting all power.

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Reply #164 - Apr 4^th, 2010 at 12:07pm

So, I'm going through Reply 107 now, and am copying the smaller XP onto the 26G partition, and then will update it to SP3.

After that, I guess the next one is fix Vista boot like we have long abouts Reply #34. I'm assuming that's all that needs, because Vista will boot after I select in the Win Dual Boot menu I get for it.

Once that's all recovered, I'll delete Ghost, and manage my images from BING.

Sound reasonable?

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