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GRUB Norton Ghost and problems
Name: Adam Date: November 13, 2002 at 02:51:15 Pacific OS: RH7.3 CPU/Ram: 1.6 GHZ/256
Comment:
I Norton Ghosted a 12 GB hard disk that had RH7.3 and Win98SE on it to another hard disk 10 GB. There was a few errors but the final message was that it had completed the task.
When I try to boot from the new disk (the one ghosted from Norton) it hangs just after testing BIOS. The last message to appear on screen during the boot process is GRUB.
That’s as far as it gets. It won’t let me boot in Win or Linux.
I’ve FDISKED and formatted this disk but it still defaults to this error. I’ve even put win2000 on the disk and this error still appears when booting up. Can someone please tell me how I can completely erase the GRUB so that I can use this old computer as a WIN98 client.
Name: malkowich Date: November 13, 2002 at 03:47:45 Pacific
Reply:
do a dos "fdisk /mbr", that should remove the grub boot loader.
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Response Number 2
Name: Santigua Date: November 13, 2002 at 07:01:02 Pacific
Reply:
Hi there!
I've worked for SYMANTEC for e few years. And if I remember correctly this seems to be a simple issue. When cloning you shouln't use the deaults. use the -IB ir even the IR switch fot such a clone. -IB stands for 'Image Boot' and -IR for 'Image Raw'. I know this will ususally result in a pretty large imagefile. Usually as large as the disk...since it clones any sector on the disk 'as is' wheater its empty or not. But if you use that switch you shoulne be aböe to clone anything without an error at all. ;)
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