Hi Brian,

I've have BING on my flash stick (this time the zip file was extracted to its own folder) that was the problem last night.
In regards to the two partitions, I'm not clear as to how there created, is this done with BING or Ghost 15?
Up until now using Ghost I've always recovered to unallocated space.
After everything is finished, my next task will be setting up the Ghost 15 scheduled backup. Is there anything I need to know before I create the backup now that I'm using BING?
I've read that some third party boot loaders can be problematic when it comes making images.

Thanks, Bill.
 

Hi Brian,

Yes, I planned on making a disc for BING per your instructions.
The recovery points are on two different external drives.
I will be using the 1 TB drive that still has both OS's on it, but they won't boot.
Can they/should they/ be
formatted first?
I plan to recover the older XP the one before the dual boot.
The recovery point for Win 7 was taken from the clone.
Ghost 14 installed on Xp.
Ghost 15 installed on Win 7.

Bill.

Brian wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2010 at 5:32pm:



Hi Brian,

This is quite diiffernt from what wrote below last night.


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Your original HD has been formatted in a USB enclosure. This is the HD that had the dual boot. Install it in your computer as the only HD. No external HDs attached either. Boot from the BING CD and delete any partitions on the HD. You want it 100% Free Space. Next, boot from the Ghost 15 CD and restore the two recovery points. They will take up the same space as the original partitions. Finally, install BING and set up the Boot Items. If there is no unallocated free space after restoring both OS, simply resize Win7 8 MB smaller to create a space for BING.

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OK, the part about no other hard drives plugged in, but my recovery points are on external HD's.
Also, the part about 100% free space on the ! TB drive.
In your last post are we now  switching from the post yesterdays  directions?
I just want to be clear as I printed out the instructions from last night.

Thanks,Bill.

Brian,

OK, were on the same page now.
I'm not going to be able to do this tonight. Hopefully I will have the results your looking for later tomorrow afternoon, if not, Saturday.
I hope wrap this up over the weekend.
Is the forum active on the weekend?
Wouldn't you know, the night I want to fix my PC, we've had thunderstorms, tornado's, yes, tornado's, there was one just out side of town, and many more throughout the county.
I'm in southern Wisconsin.
Again thanks for the help.
Bill.

Dan Goodell wrote on Jul 21^st, 2010 at 8:15pm:

Dan,

I followed up on your observation and used Edit Sig in BING instead of Clear Sig. I used a Disk Signature of 74696873 as it creates an interesting entry in LBA-0. I still had to do a BCD Edit before Win7 would boot. The BCD fields are cleared in BING when you do Clear Sig or Edit Sig.

Hi Brian,

OK, so far everything has gone as planned.
Here's the info.

Hard drives: HD_0 (the underscore should be under the zero)

Partitions:
MBR Entry 0             
Partitions MB 152532 HPFS/NTFS

Partitions:
MBR Entry 1
Partitions MB 152626 HPFS/NTFS

Partitions:
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Partitions: 648710 MB Free space


That's all of it.
Awaiting further instructions.

Bill.

I wouldn't be surprised if Win7 didn't boot on the first attempt. If not, do a BCD Edit from BING.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=318

I'll be away for a few hours. I'm looking forward to good news.

Dan Goodell wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2010 at 8:09am:

I just tried your {boot} entries and a Clear Sig. Win7 does boot without needing a BCD Edit. Nice to know.