At 07:10 PM Monday 8/29/2005, Russell Chapman wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
I tried several times, playing around with the settings in Ghost (largely
guessing, as the "help" file is not very helpful and the dead tree manual
which came in the box even less), but never got any better results than
that: a reportedly successful copy to the new drive, but the new drive
will not boot up when it is installed as drive 0 and the old drive is
removed. That's when I started asking for help.
So, any ideas?
I'm assuming that you have been using the Windows version of Ghost (in
which case your experience is fairly typical). If you can create a DOS
boot disk with CD-ROM drivers, that is the ideal. Start the computer in
DOS, and run the DOS version of Ghost from the CD, and choose disk to disk
copy. If you can't get the CD to work in DOS, it is possible to copy the
ghost.exe file to the boot disk and run it from there. This will normally
solve the problem. There is still a full menu interface, you don't need
all the command line switches, but there's no mouse. (of course, the
command line switches can do the whole thing if that's your preference,
and that's how we use it because we use it so routinely).
Failing that, I think that Partition Magic is going to be your best bet
from here on in. Ghost *should* have done the right thing - your theory
sounds right, but the 500Gb drives are a new wrinkle that I havent' dealt
with before. and Ghost may have trouble with them. We had some trouble
going from 40Gb drives to 120Gb drives, and ended up having 30Gb
partitions on both (because they are student computers with no data at
all, the remaining 90Gb is just wasted, as is most of the 30Gb...).
Because we didn't want or need the space, we didn't put much effort into
solving the problem.
Give me a yell if you need any specifics, I've kept this "big picture" coz
you sound like you know your way around a PC, but I can give you specific
instructions if you want (and a generic CD-ROM driver if it will help).
Well, here's a yell . . . but not exactly the one you (or I) may have been
expecting:
I had just about concluded that either there was an error on the old drive
which was keeping it from copying properly or that perhaps Ghost was unable
to run properly because there it couldn't find enough space on that 4.3GB
drive, so I concluded that I might as well put that 500GB drive in there
and reformat it and do a clean install of XP. (I did first run the "Files
& Settings Transfer Wizard" to save the stuff it is supposed to save so
maybe I would not lose absolutely everything I had on the old version.) So
I turned it off, removed the old drives, and put the 500GB drive I had
tried to copy the system drive to using Ghost, and then turned on the
power. This time it booted up. So again as seems to be usual with
computers, sometimes it works exactly as it is supposed to, other times you
do the exact same thing and it doesn't work, and there's no way to tell
which result you're going to get.
FWIW, I was getting constant nastygrams from the system that free space on
the C: drive was getting very low. Now I have 1.38TB of disk
space. Perhaps that'll be enough to get me through Labor Day without
getting any more nastygrams . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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