Re: How to bypass XP install checking for prior existing version
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Date: 07/12/04
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:05:00 -0700
This does not work. I already tried it. When Ghost starts
out with reading the diectory, it locks up when the bad
sectors are encountered before the cloning even begins.
>-----Original Message-----
>Ghost -FRO
>Command Line using a boot disk. This will force it to
back it up. &
>force it to restore it.
>
>(However, you may need to repair install after you get xp
on the new
>drive. )
>
>Greg R
>
>
>>On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:14:10 -0700, "Allen"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>I have bad sectors on my hard drive right where the XP
>>directory resides. This prevents the XP from
reinstalling
>>while it searches for prior loaded versions
unsucessfully.
>>
>>I bought a new hard drive so that I can use Ghost to
clone
>>this bad sectored drive, but Ghost fails right away when
>>it encounters the bad sectors in the directory.
>>
>>I need a way to reload XP without first checking for
prior
>>installations to rewrite the directory in a good area of
>>the disk. Then I can clone the entire disk drive to my
new
>>hard drive.
>>
>>I can boot up in MS DOS and I can read all of the
>>directories correctly. It is just the XP OS that is
>>corrupted.
>>
>>How do I do this?
>
>.
>
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