Re: Symantec and a Repair Installation

Glen wrote:
I use Ghost 10 and have had no problem. I am not sure I understand exactly what you have done as you say ""Copy Drive" mode to clone a hard drive as a backup". You clone a hard drive when, for instance, you are installing a larger drive and you want to move your Windows installation over to the new drive. You would then erase the old drive. For backing up you would make an image of the old drive and usually compress it to save space. The reason I bring it up is to understand what you have done to try and help.

If the boot record is damaged and I dont think it is or you wouldn't get to the Windows loading part. If it is damaged you can boot off the Windows installation media and boot to the recovery console and run "fixboot". Its worth trying but I think the problem is corrupt files which happened during the copy process. Read the Microsoft web page listed below for how to start the recovery console from the Windows media.

Tell me what you were trying to accomplish and either me or someone else try and tell you the best way to achieve it. Were you trying to make a backup of Windows? Were you trying to restore a backup of Windows? Did you clone Windows to a second hard drive\partition and end up with two installations. Were you trying to restore Windows from a second installation on a second hard drive\partition. Cloning a drive a imaging a drive are two similar but different things.

Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058/
I'll try to be brief.
I and the software are good at making a Drive Image which
can be Recovered to recreate a Clone of the original Drive.
Old Drive Image 7 did that, and new Ghost 10 does it a bit
more handily. My goal is to be able to create a clone of
the full Master partition, containing OS plus all my apps,
basically for backup purposes. I can, via a Drive Image.

PowerQuest and now Symantec offer a "Copy Drive" capability,
which purportedly should do exactly the same thing, in one
pass......an exact copy, a clone, which should boot like
the Master and be indistinguishable. So I've spent a lot
of time and effort, and many go-arounds with their techies,
and they still claim it can be done. The words in their
instructions are "When upgrading or adding a second hard
drive, copy all existing files, programs, and settings
directly onto the new drive". They finally gave up on trying
to guide me into making the 'copy' boot like the master, and
referred me to.........Microsoft.

Functionally, I don't need it, but if it does work, one step
is easier than two. I'm willing to drop it as something
Symantec claims but doesn't have, and would rather sweep under
the rug.


--
William B. Lurie
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