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I was wandering if anyone could help with Norton Ghost. Ive fired it up and its copied my C: drive to my E: drive, then Ive turned off my PC and taken out the C: and replaced it with the E:, but it wont boot. Gives me the boot disk could not be found message as though I were trying to boot off a non-boot-disk floppy. I know Im missing something technical to do with partitions and MBRs (even though I checked Norton Ghost to copy over the MBR), and Im rather confused. Im feeling a little lost and dont want to start fiddling and end up trashing things.
All Id like is for the E: drive that now has my old C: ghosted across to become my new C:
Any ideas?
Did you tick the option to "mark partition active"? IF the partition is not active it can give this error.... No ROM basic in the olden days :D
Also, To get it to show as C: make sure to "do not assign drive letter".
Cheers
Tongy
Ive marked the partition as active and its not booting. It now gets to the blue screen that shows the windows XP logo and it repeatedly flashes and loads for hours and hours but doesnt load into windows. This is my second attempt and Im ready to throw the whole thing out of the window.
Calm it matey... Its solvable. I have had problems with the flashing cursor in the top left many times. Its very frustrating, but I have gotten round it.... if you have ghost 9 Ill try and help you. Is the drive Sata?
If you are sure that the machine has all the files then try doing a repair chkdsk /r.
However as long as you have the XP CD you can do an "in place reinstall". Let me know if you want a hand doing that.
If the inplace works all youll lose is the MS updates which you can get again. All the rest of hte stuff will stay the same :D
Ive given up for tonight. Ive stuck the 20 gig back in as my C: drive. And now the 160gig drive which is supposed to be a D: drive is showing up as an E: drive for some obscure reason, so nothing that is on it runs properly. And I cant use management to change it to D: either.
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Sod it. Im just going to have to leave it as is until I can be arsed doing a proper backup and re-format, FDisk the lot and start form scratch unless someone can suggest anything that Im missing.
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It sounds to me as if youre using Ghost in Windows - the way Ive done it in the past is that you create the PC-DOS Ghost floppy, then boot the pc with that (not using either drive boot at all). The Ghost DOS GUI you get allows you to replicate the discs exactly, you then take out or disconnect the original source disc (or Windows will get flustered), and it should then boot off your new larger Windows install...
Quote from: CeathreamhnanIt sounds to me as if youre using Ghost in Windows - the way Ive done it in the past is that you create the PC-DOS Ghost floppy, then boot the pc with that (not using either drive boot at all). The Ghost DOS GUI you get allows you to replicate the discs exactly, you then take out or disconnect the original source disc (or Windows will get flustered), and it should then boot off your new larger Windows install...
Thats the Ghost Im used to as well. Ive not used later versions; Im liking the cut of Acronis TrueImages gib.
Quote from: CeathreamhnanIt sounds to me as if youre using Ghost in Windows - the way Ive done it in the past is that you create the PC-DOS Ghost floppy, then boot the pc with that (not using either drive boot at all). The Ghost DOS GUI you get allows you to replicate the discs exactly, you then take out or disconnect the original source disc (or Windows will get flustered), and it should then boot off your new larger Windows install...
I purchased the download version so there wasnt any talk of this. Some vague mention of a "symantec boot ISO for your CD-R" knocking about in the directory somewhere, this may be the same thing for Ghost 10. This may be the problem, Ill have to see if it burns bootable onto a DVD-R sometime over the weekend and see if itll progress from there.
If the source disk is my old C: drive I take it once I remove it the new drive will get assigned C: and I can put it onto the primary IDE/master with no problems? Or does it need to stay on the same IDE channel as when Ghost copied everything across?
I used Ghost v9 (installed) just yesterday to ghost a 2.5" to another 2.5" whilst the systems was running, via USB. Worked a treat. I then used a cut down version of partition magic to extend it to the full 40gb.
Worked like a charm.
Cheers
Tongy
Quote from: Chris HIf the source disk is my old C: drive I take it once I remove it the new drive will get assigned C: and I can put it onto the primary IDE/master with no problems? Or does it need to stay on the same IDE channel as when Ghost copied everything across?
Yes and No. :D
If you boot off the cd created by the Ghost setup program (or image provided) then you work in Ghost totally outside of Windows, replicate one disc onto another (the whole disc, not just a partition), then you can boot off the copied disc. Youd need to reassign or remove the source disc somehow as the pc will see two discs the same (as I see it).
The versions of Ghost Ive used are 2000 and 2003, it may well be that with Tongys version you can do it in Windows (copying the version of windows you are actually running) but Ive no experience of that.