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Cloning XP Drive
Name: jason266 Date: May 22, 2005 at 15:04:40 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: P4 2.8 768Meg
Comment:
I've installed a larger drive and have attempted to clone the smaller one to a partition on the new one. Everything seemed to have gone well except, instead of the user selection screen at logon, I just get a windows XP spash screen. That's it. I've tried starting up in safe mode, everything but I just can't get it to work. Any ideas?
Name: Rich Mentzel Date: May 22, 2005 at 16:44:21 Pacific
Reply:
You are missing the boot files on the old drive. What program did you use to restore the drive?
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Response Number 2
Name: jason266 Date: May 23, 2005 at 01:29:50 Pacific
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I used Norton Ghost 2003. Just to expand I get past the black windows XP loading screen but, instead of users, I just get a Windows XP Logo at the next screen.
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Response Number 3
Name: Rich Mentzel Date: May 23, 2005 at 04:58:03 Pacific
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I am not sure about 2003 Ghost, as I have not used that in years, but9.0 Ghost gives you the option to replace or bring the mbr and that is what is not happening.
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Response Number 4
Name: jason266 Date: May 23, 2005 at 07:08:21 Pacific
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If I ran a windows repair session on that disk would that fix the mbr? I always thought that if you cloned a drive that all characteristics would be copied over.
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Response Number 5
Name: rob h Date: May 23, 2005 at 15:40:39 Pacific
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I have used ghost 2003 to clone my main hard drive onto another as a backup and then change the bios to boot from that one and it works fine, but I was warned that it might take several attempts as it is a bit temperamental, try reformatting the new drive and trying again.
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Response Number 6
Name: Rich Mentzel Date: May 23, 2005 at 15:55:54 Pacific
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Try it first...and then if it fails a repair should boot it.
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