Re: Differences between cloned drive and original

Bill,

Clear the cobwebs from your head and learn about disk imaging anew. You have
many misconceptions.

A clone is just that. After you make the clone you disconnect it from the
connecting cables. Then you take the cables that are attached to your main
hard drive (source of clone) and connect them to your cloned hard drive. Now
boot up. That way the cloned Windows XP operating system is in the same
relative physical position as the original (drive and partition wise)

I have told you this before - a few times I think. Windows XP is Drive and
Partition sensitive. When you install Windows XP on Drive 0, Partition 0 you
can not clone the drive to Drive 1, Partition 0 and expect it to boot or run
properly - no matter what you chose in the bios.

What you are trying to do, the way you are doing it, is called dual boot.
For that you start from scratch and install the operating system on the
second hard drive. This one you leave connected all the time.

I have suggested before that you download the manual for Drive Image 2002
(now available on the Ghost 9 CD) from the Symantec web site. Then read it
and learn the basics. I think you are delving right into copying and cloning
without knowing the rules of the road. Therefore you have been lost for the
past 6 months.

You seem no closer to success now than you were at your first post of many
months ago!

If you want I will send you the full documentation files from Drive Image
2002. The theory also applies to Ghost 2003.



--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


<billurie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eXU%23sR9WFHA.1508@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Leythos wrote:
>> In article <428A9C3E.40303@xxxxxxxxxx>, billurie@xxxxxxxxxx says...
>>
>>>I've been using Ghost 2003 to make a clone of my Master
>>>Drive (XP/SP2) in Slave position on IDE cable, to use as
>>>a live backup of the Master OS.
>>>
>>>Today I found these differences:
>>>
>>>Master was running 237 MB PF usage, when I booted to it
>>>as the operating system, while the Clone ran only
>>>100 MB PF usage when I booted to it as the active
>>>operating system. (Both on the IDE cable at the same time).
>>>
>>>When running the Clone as the active OS, the Task Manager
>>>column for the User Name was completely blank. Image
>>>names are all there. (Both one the IDE cable at same time).
>>>
>>>The bottom toolbar was a pale gray on the Clone system,
>>>instead of the light olive drab color as in the Master.
>>>
>>>When operating the Clone Syatem, booting to it in Slave
>>>position, the Desktop Icons are all present and all
>>>functional.
>>>
>>>I hope I've described it clearly, and would appreciate
>>>any helpful (n.b.) comments on the above.
>>
>>
>> You didn't do something correctly if you got those results.
>
> Yes, I can agree with that.......but what I did was so simple, I couldn't
> have done it wrong. I loaded G2003, went to Clone, indicated
> the source and where to put the copy, and let it run its course.
>>
>> If you do a DISK TO DISK COPY when you boot the second disk IS AN EXACT
>> COPY and there is NOTHING missing. I've used G2003 for years, it always
>> works when you clone a disk.
>
> Read on.
>>
>> It could be that you're leaving the disk connected and that something
>> from the booting OS is messing with the second drive as I never ghost a
>> disk to disk and leave the cloned disk in place.
>
> The master and clone have to both be in place to make the clone,
> obviously. When I finish, I change the BIOS and let it boot
> to the Clone (HDD-1). That's a simple straightforward dual-boot
> operation, and has worked for years. The Clone then works as the
> only Active OS.... The original Master is not running as an OS.
>>
>> Also, you are doing this from a DOS BOOT DISK, right?
>>
> I have no DOS BOOT DISK. I run Norton System Works, select GHOST,
> select Advanced, select CLONE a disk and it runs.
>
> --
> William B. Lurie


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