Re: Copy and swap hard drive

Pegasus,

I am about ready to give up and put the new drive back in the box. All
I see hear is graduate level discussion that is over my head.

If Anna has provided a, b, c, d. Then I don't see it or it deals with
"cloning" a drive with ghost 2003. I can't make Ghost2003 work despite
almost 24 straight hours of effort. I do have Ghost 9.0 and I have
used the copy drive feature it to make an exact copy of the four
partitions on my new hard drive.

You say remove the sound card. Why?

If I have the old drive in Disk 0 Windows boots perfectly.

If I move what is supposed to be an exact copy of the old drive to Disk
0 Word hangs on startup.

I don't really know why it is hanging, but I suspect that it is because
the drive letters on the new drive are J, K, L, and M and that as
windows trys to start it is looking for things with pointers to C: and
E: I suspect this becuase when I tried to do a reinstal with the new
drive in Disk 0 that failed to but in the process I got notification
that such and such wasn't found. The such and such was located at C:\
and I suppose as Windows loads it looks for Microsoft Office files as
well because one of the notifications was pointing to E:\MOS Cache.

I really think that my problem is the drive letters on the exact copy
don't match the drive letters of the source drive. I think that during
boot that the OS is trying to load files that it thinks are in C:\ or
E:\ and C: and E: don't exist anymore.

I am not trying to be hard headed. If one of you thinks that I should
abandon the exact copy route and try something else then please advise.

I will go back and read Anna's procedure for using Ghost2003 and see if
something clicks.

Thank you all for you patience and please forgive me if I seem
impatient.

.

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