RE: Setting active drive/partition in XP
- From: "Miescha" <Miescha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:33:07 -0800
Thanks - I wasn't aware of the XCOPY options - sounds like it works just like
the Ghost Drive Copy feature (but native to XP). I'll give it a try in
combination with the other suggestions here and report back. Just to be sure
though, if only the source drive is connected, should it be labled 'active'
or 'system' under the drive management console? Mine says 'system.'
While trying to figure out the problem with the other secondary PCs not
booting into XP, I did notice that even though all the machines are IBM
machines with the same model number and all order as a group, there are
slight differences. I confirmed the BIOS is the same on all, and it appears
the mother board is the same. One has a firewire PCI card installed (the
source PC actually) but I don't think the additional drivers will cause a
problem on the target machines and if I run sysprep to force hardware
discovery I think all will be fine.
However, I did notice slight differences in some of the machines model and
serial numbers on the DVD and CD burners. They all look the same externally,
but some of the model/serial numbers are slightly differenct. I assume this
is just IBM sourcing and ordering, but will this prevent me from using a copy
of the source setup to deploy the rest of the machines?
"Andrew E." wrote:
> Xp doesnt run with FDISK.Try installing xp cd,boot to xp cd,at menu select r
> for recovery,select 1 for disk C: press enter for password,then type:CHKDSK
> C: /R
> After type:EXIT Let xp start up.If the OS is damaged,boot to xp cd,select
> install xp,repair this copy.If youre pcs are identical w/o any
> variations,you can
> install 2nd drive from other machine,set as slave,format the drive,then go
> to run,
> type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r Agree to all in the DOS window,when the
> DOS window exits,youre thru,C: and all its contents are on other drive,move
> to
> other pc.Also,D: being slave,but if asigned diffrent letter then use that.
>
>
> "Miescha" wrote:
>
> > I'm new to XP pro, but not computers overall. Our small company is preparing
> > to move from WIN 2K pro to XP pro. I set up and "played" with one of our new
> > PCs using XP pro and all the various software we use. After little more than
> > a week, I'm happy with XP pro and confident the system is stable and fully
> > 'updated' (for now).
> >
> > In an attempt to deploy the setup to the other PCs, I connected a second
> > hard drive and used Symantec's Norton Ghost 10 (part of SystemWorks 2006) to
> > "copy my hard drive" to the second 'target' drive from the first 'source'
> > drive. I selected the options to copy the MBR and set the 'target' drive as
> > active. After completion, I shut down and removed the 'target' drive.
> >
> > Upon installing the 'target' drive to one of the new PCs (all identical
> > machines with identical or nearly identical hardware to the 'source' machine)
> > all did not work well - the POST went fine and the 'starting windows'
> > appeared but then the machine froze on what looked like the shut down/log out
> > screen of XP (blue background with small XP logo). That is a question for
> > another time perhaps.
> >
> > The problem at the moment is that when I put the second 'target' drive back
> > in the original 'source' PC, it is still listed as the active drive and the
> > 'source' drive is listed only as a 'system' drive. The disk management
> > console with not let me change this (the 'make partition active choice is
> > greyed out). What am I missing? In this state, XP will not let me format
> > the 'target' drive and Ghost 10 will not let me duplicate the 'source' drive
> > to the 'target' and format in the process b/c it is the current active drive.
> > I also tried to change the active setting using DISKPART inside XP and FDISK
> > from a WIN98 boot disk - no luck with either (although FDISK shows the
> > 'source' disk as the active disk when it is the only disk connected).
> >
> > Any thoughts?
.
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