Re: Copy and swap hard drive

Anna,

No joy on the Ghost 2003 method. Again I could not get passed the flashing
cursor in Starting PC DOS.

For awhile there I thougth I had hit pay dirt using Ghost 9.0. I did manage
to get all four drives copied to unlettered partitions on the 250G drive. I
then booted the machine with that drive only in the Drive 0 slot. Windows
loaded after doing a assigning drive C:\ to the first partition and doing a
Windows CHKDSK. When Windows loaded the first time I noticed that a few of
my startup programs didn't start. I looked in My Computer and the drives D,
E, and F were not displayed. I uese Control Panel>Computer Management>Disk
Management then name them as D:, E:, and F. I shut down and started Windows
again and Windoes perfromed CHKDSK on D: and E: then booted and everything
appeared to run perfectly.

Elation was soon dashed as I noticed that Windows runs CHKDSK on D: and E:
everytime the computer is restarted. I am back to squared 1.



--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.


Anna wrote:
> "Greg http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm"; <gmaxey@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote in message
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>> Anna,
>>
>> 14. BTW, the reboot of the newly-cloned drive usually takes a longer
>> time than usual, so one must be patient. On rare occasions the system
>> will fail to reboot - the system will hang before reaching the
>> Windows XP Welcome screen. It's a rare occurrence, but you may experience
>> it
>> from time-to-time.
>> If that does occur, simply use the Ctrl-Alt-Delete keys to reboot.
>>
>> Optimistically speaking, say I get this far. About how long is
>> "usually longer." Thanks.
>
>
> On a "modern" machine, maybe 20 - 30 seconds at most.
>
> I should add that after you arrive at your Desktop, after a slight
> delay - maybe about 40 seconds or so - (usually, but not always) a Windows
> "System Settings Change" window will appear informing you
> that new hardware has been found and asks "Do you want to restart
> your computer now?". Click "Yes". The reboot should proceed normally.
>
> Again, I remind you...
> Immediately following the cloning operation, *disconnect* your source
> drive and boot *only* with the newly-cloned drive connected.
> Thereafter, it makes no difference (in terms of any subsequent boot
> problems with the cloned drive) if both drives are connected when
> booting to either one. But it's important that the *initial* boot
> following the cloning process be undertaken with *only* the cloned
> drive connected. Anna


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