Re: How to clone a hard disk ?

"RJK" wrote:
I thought I'd try a route different to ghosting C:\ out to a USB hd,
and then restoring that image onto a new hd,
i.e. booting from Norton 9.0 Ghost bootable cd 'cause is slowish.

So I tried the "Copy drive" on the Norton Ghost 9.0 windows
interface, to "copy drive" C:\ on hd0 to hd1's unallocated space
(both SATA hd's).

On the options screen I ticked "Set drive Active" (for booting OS)
...there's a radio button in Primary Partition.
Drive Letter is set to None, 'cause C:\ is unavailable ?
...and I put a tick in "Copy MBR"

...now I left it "copying", and when I returned, the XP screensaver
was on but, I don't think it had rebooted, and I dutifully shut it
down, and unplugged hd0, rebooted from the "new" hd if you like,
and got "NTLDR Missing"

...anyone know how to use Ghost's Windows "Copy Drive" ?

regards, Richard


My guess is that you put the clone into a partition that has
a no. that is different from that of the source partition. IOW,
the "partition()" parameter in the /boot.ini file doesn't point to
the correct partition on the new disk. The "fix" is to edit the
/boot.ini file so that "x" in "partition(x)" corresponds to the
correct partition. As long as the partition is marked "active"
on the new disk, and the old disk has been disconnected,
the new XP should boot right up without any fiddling with
SATA ports. Disconnecting the source disk also performs
the function of isolating the clone ON THE CLONE'S FIRST
STARTUP FROM SEEING ITS "PARENT" OS. That keeps
the clone from confusing its own files with those of its "parent"
OS during that very first startup.

BTW, I haven't used Ghost in several years, but since I tried
Casper, I've stuck with Casper. It can clone single partitions
like Ghost - something that True Image cannot do directly -
and it can make incremental backups to its clones as well.

*TimDaniels*


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