Re: Copy and swap hard drive

See below.

"Greg http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm"; <gmaxey@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> 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.

Sorry about that. It is often difficult to work out the level
of experience that the OP has.

> If Anna has provided a, b, c, d. Then I don't see it or it deals with
> "cloning" a drive with ghost 2003.

Anna might respond to this.

> 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.

I don't use Ghost, hence I cannot comment on its properties.
I use Acronis, which works most of the time, or I use xcopy.exe,
which works every time when used as follows:
a) with the source and the target disks temporarily installed
in some other WinXP/2000 PC, or
b) when the machine is booted with a Bart PE boot CD. This
is a great CD but it takes about three hours to make one.
You would need a CD burner and a WinXP Professional
CD.

> You say remove the sound card. Why?

You thought that WinXP hangs because of the sound card.
If it does then removing the card would eliminate this problem.

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

This is precisely why I thought it unlikely that the sound
card would cause WinXP to hang.

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

Strange - previously you said that you were unable to start Windows
(quote: "I tried to boot the machine and it froze at the windows welcome
screen."), so how can you start Word?

> 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.

It's your decision and it will be influenced by how long it will take
you to do a fresh installation of WinXP, and how badly you want
to learn how to clone a disk. It is possible that your problems are
caused by the fact that you're using SATA disks - I recall following
a similar thread some months ago. When the OP of that thread
changed to an IDE disk, things worked just fine.

> 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.

I think "impatient" is the wrong word - I would have used "frustrated",
with plenty of justification. Good luck!


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