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I'm using Norton Ghost to clone a hard drive to a new hard drive. Both drives have NTFS partitions. The drive-to-drive copy works fine. All the directories were copied. However, when I boot to the new drive, Windows XP freezes just before the user accounts are shown on the screen to login. It sits at the blue screen with the smaller XP logo. Kinda frustrating that's it's so close.
I've read other people having the at the same spot. Anybody have luck finding a fix for this? Otherwise guess I have to do a Windows XP repair.Mark
I have been using ghost for years and not seen this problem. Try the repair or try the ghost again.Rgds.
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Cool I'll try. The drive-to-drive option I've done twice with the same result. XP freezes just before the user accounts selection screen.
I'm trying to copy from a Quantum Fireball ATA/66 drive to a Seagate Barracuda Ultra ATA/100. Looks like it clones fine just got the freeze up glitch. I'm gonna try one more idea. Then give the XP repair a try.Mark
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A suggestion. Run chdsk /r from the recovery console on the fireball to clean up any bad clusters on it. The fireball is notorious for bad clusters. note space between k and / .
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Are you positive that you are using `drive to drive'? Those symptoms indicate that you might be doing a `partition' copy.
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Yep, I'm using the 'copyone drive to another' wizard in Ghost 9.0 which is the brand new version. It has features from the PowerQuest Drive Image series. In that wizard, I tell it to make the new drive a boot drive and to also copy the MBR. Next time, I'm going to check the option to ignore bad sectors during the copy process.
First, I'm going to do some maintenance on the old drive such as the chdsk /r and virus/spyware check etc. It has Norton Antivirus on it so that shouldn't be a concern.
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Finally got it to work. I made a backup image and stored it on a external hard drive. The old drive only had 2GB left total. Then I restored the backup image to the new drive. Booted it up and it didn't freeze before the login screen this time.The drive-to-drive cloning option in Norton 9.0 would result in the freezing up on boot every time.
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My current c: drive in my Win XP Pro SP2 box (the evil os) is 40 GB; I have a d: drive that's 80 GB which I am using as the clone target. I want to replace the current c: with this clone.
For several times already, I have done exactly what you tried originally with Ghost 9.0 and I am having the exact problem.
I am going to try your second, successful solution. I don't have an external drive. However, I do have a couple of samba file systems exported from a FreeBSD system in my network. The files systems are mounted by the xp box as mapped network drives. I can park the image there.
I already wasted a few man-days on this and I hope your solution will work.
Originally I used the freebie disk management tool downloaded from Western Digital's website (both of my drives are WD drives). I used the tool's 'disk-to-disk copy' feature to clone c: to d:. Exact same problem as with Ghost 9.0's disk-to-disk copy. OK, so I plunked down $60 or so to get Ghost 9.0, thinking it should be better than freebies. Yeah right.
I wonder why Ghost 9.0 disk-to-disk copy doesn't work? Ghost 9.0 is supposedly compatible and certified for XP Pro.
I did a lot of google on this problem and I begin to think it may be related to (1) XP's evil "WPA" (Windows Product Activation), and/or (2) SIDs (unique Security IDs).
At any rate, I'll try your second solution and report back my results.
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woohoo! it worked! thanks Mark!
I hope Symantec reads this thread and fix the disk-to-disk copy problem in Ghost 9.1 :-)
In the mean time, creating and using a disk image backup parked on a third disk is working.
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