Where is the virtual partition - on the partition you are copying? Ideally, use a booting from the CD OS such as XpPe, or - create a small primary partition on a drive, install a basic XP instance, boot from that partition, add in Ghost, and then run the imaging of the main OS partition
Is your system able to boot from USB connected drive in which case why not try setting up a small partition on it to hold a small XP image with ghost etc and use that as a management facility so you will be able to have a separate OS on the USB drive with which to manipulate, and copy the main OS image 2Gb may be enough if you cut out all the extras such as comms, hibernate etc. ( you may have problems with activation - but, hopefully not - you can alternatively just remember the install date, and set the system date back to that for any restore work using that OS instance) and - being picky - Drives have partitions, some partitions may be FAT, FAT32, or NTFS JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Irv Pereira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:56 PM Subject: Software -- Ghost 2003 Windows XP Media Center, 1 GB Mem, 250 GB HD. USB 2.0 I am trying to clone the C:\ to a USB External Drive. I am using a 5 MB virtual partition & PC-DOS. This is with Norton's Ghost 2003. The operation starts fine but crashes at the point where it's trying to do the MFT File. Both drives are NTFS. I have found that there is a sharing violation involving this file when doing an XCOPY. XCOPY goes all the way through, but it's not a clone. I use -/R/I/C/H/K/E/Y WHEN USING XCOPY. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you all!!! \~~/ (\@@/) _oOOO__(__)__OOOo_ Irv Pereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
