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Re: "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services encountered a problem"
Reply #15 - Oct 24th, 2010 at 1:37am
 
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Yes, BootMagic should work. It is fairly basic but I think it can boot an OS on the second HD. I used it years ago without problems.

Edit.. This is from the Readme.

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1. Installing under Windows 2000/Windows XP
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When Installing BootMagic from Windows 2000 or Windows XP, it is
recommended that you install to a FAT16 partition.  If you install
to a FAT32 partition, the rescue diskettes will not see the BootMagic
partition.  If you do install to a FAT32 partition, you can create
rescue diskettes from a Windows 98 or Windows Me machine; then the
disks will see the FAT32 BootMagic partition correctly.


2. Booting from Secondary Hard Disks
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To boot from a partition that is not on the first hard disk, you must
enable advanced partition hiding.  When you select this option,
BootMagic hides all primary partitions except for the one you are
booting from.  This option is turned off by default.

To enable advanced partition hiding, click Options > Advanced Partition
Hiding from the BootMagic configuration program.


So it should be fine.
 
 
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Re: "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services encountered a problem"
Reply #16 - Oct 24th, 2010 at 1:44am
 
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Brian is probably going to respond soon--but, what Ghost procedure are you attempting?  Disk to Disk, or partition to disk, or partition to partition?

So you know, Ghost 2003 has a size limit of just over 1 terabytes--so it will not correctly work with a 1.5 TB HDD!  So, the TeraByte imaging program may be your best way to go given you HDD size!

You do not need a boot manager for what you appear to want to do:

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1- The overall goal is to use the C: partition’s OS and its already installed device drivers on the new G: partition.  This would save doing a new install of XP Pro on G:

The new drive will be the main drive to boot from and for storing data.

2- Keep the original 80 GB drive as a backup OS if needed.


You just need to delete all the partitions that are on the new 1.5 TB HDD.  Use Ghost to do a direct clone of the 80 GB HDD to the 1.5 TB HDD  (disk to disk)--make sure you don't go the wrong way!  Tell Ghost to make the destination size whatever size you want the new WinXP to be on the 1.5 TB HDD.

Now, remove the old HDD, and place the new 1.5 TB HDD in place of the old one.  Should boot.  Once booted, use WinXP's disk management to partition the rest of the 1.5 TB HDD the way you want.
 

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Reply #17 - Oct 24th, 2010 at 1:49am
 
Still some confusion here. You only need a boot manager if you plan on having two WinXP in your computer. That's what I thought you wanted.
 
 
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Reply #18 - Oct 24th, 2010 at 1:59am
 
Brian wrote on Oct 24th, 2010 at 1:49am:
Still some confusion here. You only need a boot manager if you plan on having two WinXP in your computer. That's what I thought you wanted. 

Yes, that's what I'm hoping to do.  Even though the two OS partitions may wind up being about the same, having the ability to boot into a good OS on each hard drive seems like a nice amount of backup to have...
 
 
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Reply #19 - Oct 24th, 2010 at 2:10am
 
Yes, I like multiple OS in the one computer. I have 3 WinXP, 4 Win7, etc, etc.
 
 
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Reply #20 - Oct 24th, 2010 at 3:03am
 
I was just playing around with Ghost 2003 partition to partition. I'd forgotten that you can only clone to unallocated space if the whole target HD is unallocated space. If a partition is present the remaining unallocated space can't be used as the target.

You can however clone to a partition without a drive letter (previously removed in WinXP) and this gets around the drive letter issue we have been discussing.

So recreate a 40 GB partition in Disk Management and remove the drive letter. Now partition to partition will work.
 
 
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Re: "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services encountered a problem"
Reply #21 - Oct 24th, 2010 at 9:56am
 
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Here's the reference that talks about Ghost 2003's HDD size limitation:

Ghost 2003 Destination Drive Size Limits?--see Dan Goodell's Reply #3!

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Yes, that's what I'm hoping to do.  Even though the two OS partitions may wind up being about the same, having the ability to boot into a good OS on each hard drive seems like a nice amount of backup to have...

Okay, so I *read the tea leaves* incorrectly!  But, wanted to make sure what you were attempting to do--that's why I asked what your *goals* were!  Wink

So, I agree, you need a boot manager other than Microsoft's if you want *independent* bootable OS's on same system on different HDD's.  You might be able to accomplish the same thing *sort of* if your BIOS lets you select which HDD is booted from--but, if you don't *hide* the other non-booted OS partition from the active boot OS, it will be *seen* by the active OS, and probably various things will be written to that non-booted OS partition--not sure if that would be a problem going forward or not--probably not--but left to its own, WinXP is constantly writing restore point system data to various partitions, as well as using them for its paging file, indexing, etc. ......
 

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Reply #22 - Oct 25th, 2010 at 5:03pm
 
Thanks very much for the time, attention, and very useful information from this forum.  I understand the issue so much better, and know what needs to be done, because of your good help.  Much appreciation.
 
 
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Reply #23 - Oct 25th, 2010 at 5:42pm
 
Glad we could help. Please keep us informed of your progress.
 
 
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