Using Ghost - Symantec informed me that with the release of Ghost v9.0 they have removed the facility to create a booting backup
I always create backups of the normal OS partition having booted from a small recovery/drive maintenance OS partition JimB. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 1:06 PM Subject: Re: External Hard Drive Enclosure > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:02 PM > Subject: External Hard Drive Enclosure > > > > I have an extra hard drive I would like to use for backups on different > > computers. > > > > Speaking of backups, I feel that something new (perhaps Service Pack 2) has > destroyed my ability to easily back up a C Drive partition and restore it or > boot Windows XP from the target drive. > > In the past I simply copied the whole C Drive to a partition on another hard > drive. I could later either boot from that partition (if it was the first > one on the target drive) or I could restore from that partition and boot > from the hard drive I restored it to. > > Evidently Microsoft has incorporated anti-piracy features in Service Pack 2 > (or in other updates) to interfere with cloning and sucessfully booting from > the drive you cloned a C Drive load of Windows XP to. As I have mentioned > many times in the past, cloning within the Windows XP environment is very > slow, compared to cloning with ghost.exe prior to loading Windows XP. I > guess you still call it Real DOS Mode. There, with ghost.exe I can now copy > at the rate of 2500 MB per minute from a SATA hard drive to another SATA > hard drive. The last time I posted here about my copying speed, I was > bragging about the rate of 1500 MB per minute with IDE hard drives. > > My guess is that Microsoft is preventing booting into Windows XP from a hard > drive you cloned a C Drive load to because they feel that different hard > drive may be installed in a different computer. Pirating is not my purpose. > A quick and smooth changeout of a failed hard drive is my purpose in > cloning. > > I assume that if Windows XP crashes and I have a clone, I can format the C > Drive that Windows XP crashed on and copy the clone back and it will boot. I > certainly do not intend to try this just for testing purposes. If I try it > and it does not work I am faced with completely reinstalling etc. to replace > a good C Drive that I formatted. It is not worth that risk, just for a test. > > It seems that we OEM's who are holding out on using the Restore DVD process > are going to be forced into going to it, if we want a bootable clone that > works. I may have to concede to that fact that a restore CD may be the best > way to restore a system I built unless there is a slipstreamed Service Pack > (one that is not on the clone CD) on my current OEM CD's that would make > reinstalling better. > > I keep clones of XP installs for only one year. After that there are so many > changes and updates that a reinstall is more efficient. > > I guess I need to open each OEM CD kit before the customer gets it. Some are > confused. They wonder why I was able to install Windows XP using my CD (they > get their OEM kit still sealed with the COA removed and stuck onto their > computer) and they can not use their OEM CD to install XP to a different > computer. They do not have a clue that the COA Product Key has been mated to > their computer and a clone sent to Microsoft during authentication. I never > do anything that I can not explain to Microsoft on the phone as I know one > day I may have to in order to authenticate. I have had to many times in the > past. > > Chuck > > > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html > Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page > http://winhome.wavijo.com/ > > -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://winhome.wavijo.com/
