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Ghosting Windows XP
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Original Message
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Name: NE0
Date: December 31, 2003 at 01:05:18 Pacific
Subject: Ghosting Windows XP
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: PIII, 256MB RAM
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Comment: Hi, I'm having issues ghosting a windows XP disk to another disk. I've searched a bit and found couple of threads that seems to say others had similar problems and replies saying some never had problems. I didn't see anything that showed a fix or a resolution from guys who had this problem.
Hear me out here, I dont think I'm a complete bonehead so here's some details.
I have a IBM 600x thinkpad with a 10Gig hard drive with files, programs I've installed over the year.
I have a larger 20 gig I would like to use so I've tried imaging the 10 gig to the 20 gig but it wouldn't boot. I've tried the following...
Disk to Image then Image to Disk with Ghost 7, Ghost 7.5 and even Ghost 2003 (without marking)
Then I've tried Disk to Disk using 7, 7.5 & 2003 with two 3.5 to 2.5 notebook hard drive adapter on a normal desktop.
Ghost is booted from a win98 floppy. I've tried GDISK /mbr and made sure the drive was Active and that didn't do jack. Each time, the ghosted disk wont boot. I only get a blinking cursor at the top left after the hardware boots up. I tried ghosting windows 2000 notebook and that works fine on the 20 gig hard drive using the same software, cables, adapter etc. The Disk is being booted as the only disk on the notebook. Someone mentioned sysprep might help however I would hate to mess up the original image doing sysprep based on a maybe, try sysprep. Anyone have had this problem and found a work around? Thanks in Advance,
Neo
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Response Number 1
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Name: tropic
Date: December 31, 2003 at 01:21:28 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Ran into this problem once... the culprit ended up being drive translation software built in to the BIOS. Longshot, but it might be worth a look in your BIOS.
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Response Number 2
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Name: starman1746
Date: December 31, 2003 at 01:26:16 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I've only looked into Ghost a few times, but isn't there a way to make a set of bootable cd's?
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Response Number 3
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Reply: (edit)I'm no expert but the problem may lie in your BIOS settings or something. Your settings may be set for the hard disk your currently using... maybe something in the MBR or likewise. I had the same problem years back and simply copied the files i wanted to keep to a separate drive and a list of programs that I had installed. I then reformatted and reinstalled the OS and susequently reinstalled the programs and copied the files I kept back over.
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Response Number 4
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Name: Ewen
Date: December 31, 2003 at 03:44:05 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I use Ghost frequently (once a week) and I have used it to ghost an image from an 8gig drive to a 40 gig drive with no difficulty. The question here is whether you have created an .img file or a .gho file. Using .gho allows the saved image to recreate the boot sector and your disk must boot. I use Ghost from a 98 boot disk also and never any problems. Disregard all the jazz about BIOS settings... it has nothing to do with it.
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Response Number 5
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Name: Lucid
Date: December 31, 2003 at 14:01:08 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I agree with the above post, I've never run into a problem with Ghost and the BIOS. Try checking out Symantec's website, they've got some good help pages. One big thing to check is your version of Ghost. Some of the older ones cannot be used with Windows XP (which is what I think it might be since you said you did a Win2K drive just fine). So check out Symantec's site...
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Response Number 6
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Name: NE0
Date: January 1, 2004 at 02:58:14 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Thanks for the replies... tropic,
I did a firmware update on the BIOS so I have the latest. Dick,
yes there is a way to make bootable Ghost CD, I have those as well. I used Nero to make the bootable CD's.
When doing a Ghost from Disk to Disk, I did not want to introduce a 3rd IDE/CDROM. thequantaleaper,
Bios is the latest. I've tried GDISK # /MBR and also checked to ensure the drive was Active.
WIth win2000, i've done the same... just install win2000 and do a copy from 1 drive to another. also since this is a notebook, it's more difficult to do a copy since I dont have a way to put 2 hard drives on this PC, I would need to buy additional hardware to do this so was hoping Ghost would take care of it. XPose
I've crated .gho files AND have also done a DISK to DISK image along with many other combinations. Lucid
Symantec says to do sysprep but I'm afraid of messing up the original image at this point. I might have to look for my XP CD's and serials along with finding my old win98 OS CD's as well if all fails. I'm hearing CID might have something to do with this so sysprep seems to come up from different sources. Anyone here have helpful hints on what not to do before sysprep is used? Thanks and Happy New Year!
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Response Number 7
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Name: J0sh
Date: January 3, 2004 at 13:22:31 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)When my PC failed to boot exactly as you described, DOS's FDISK /MBR put it right. Worth a try? Good luck.
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