Re: XP, Norton Ghost 2003
From: Harry Ohrn (harry---_at_webtree.ca)
Date: 12/17/04
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:27:21 -0600
"Art" <noonehere@longone.net> wrote in message
news:eP$sdeG5EHA.1564@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> "Rang" <Rang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:16B6C1BE-B8DE-4EEA-83F4-F17BE769BEE8@microsoft.com...
>> | I would like to clone my master drive to the slave drive and keep them
>> | connected to the IDE controller. But the Symantec article on Disk To
>> Disk
>> | cloning recommends that the slave drive must be physically disconnected
>> after
>> | cloning. It says otherwise I may have operational problems.
>> | I would appreciate your feedback on this issue. Thanks.
>
>
> "Harry Ohrn" <harry---@webtree.ca> wrote in message
> news:%23yIYi9F5EHA.3380@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Do the clone. Shut down. Disconnect the Slave. Restart all they way into
>> Windows on the Master. Shutdown and reconnect the slave. You should be OK
>> then. Generally it is just the first time booting that can present a
>> problem.
>>
>> Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
>> www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
>
>
> Rang:
> I'm aware of Symantec's cautionary note that you refer to, i.e., following
> the cloning operation you should disconnect the destination disk that has
> been cloned to before booting to your source disk, presumably your
> day-to-day working hard drive. Using Ghost 2003 I've performed hundreds of
> clones involving two internal hard drives and I rarely disconnect the
> destination disk (in your case the slave drive) after the cloning
> operation before booting with the source disk. I can't recall ever having
> run into any problem because both drives were connected at the time the
> system is booted following a cloning operation.
> I've written to Symantec about this but I've never received a clear
> explanation from them as to why they stipulate this procedure.
> I would be interested in hearing from Harry Ohrn about any problems he has
> run into involving this issue.
> Art
Hi Art. The one problem I've found is that, on occasion, the wrong drive
letter gets assigned to the first drive and it ends up being Drive letter
"E" (or some other letter beyond already connected drives) instead of "C".
This really creates a problem. By booting with only one drive connected the
first time seems to prevent this from happening. As I mentioned this doesn't
happen everytime but I've run into it. I should also have mentioned that it
doesn't hurt to Hide your drives from each other with either a boot manager
or from Disk Management.
I haven't used the newest version of Ghost. I used Ghost for years but
recently switched to Acronis TrueImage.
-- Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
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